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Leviticus 19:27 “Do not cut the hair at the sides of your head or clip off the edges of your beard.”

Refreshing that the grandmother is the one of his grandparents that is “large-minded about humoring the desires of other people.” It feels like that mother figures in books like this are often written as one note, that note being *practical.*

I liked the bit where the teacher is concerned a student is being read to at home too *much*

It’s been about nine years since I last read this and I’m not convinced I’ve read anything more enjoyable on a sentence by sentence basis in the interim

The contrast between Darcy and Lizzy’s banter, 1-2 lines at a time and laced with meaning, and Mr Collins’s unsolicited speeches, paragraph after paragraph of nothings.