By Dodie Smith
Now an immense movie from the Academy Award-winning manufacturer of Shakespeare in Love
I catch the Castle tells the tale of seventeen-year-old Cassandra and her family members, who stay in not-so-genteel poverty in a ramshackle outdated English fortress. right here she strives, over six turbulent months, to hone her writing abilities. She fills 3 notebooks with sharply humorous but poignant entries. Her journals candidly chronicle the nice adjustments that happen in the castle's partitions, and her personal first descent into love. by the point she pens her ultimate access, she has "captured the castle"--and the guts of the reader--in certainly one of literature's such a lot spell binding entertainments.
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Miss Marcy said "Of course you might," very politely; then turned to me. I said my speed-writing was getting quite fast, but of course it wasn't quite like real shorthand (or quite like real speed-writing, for that matter); and I couldn't type and the chance of getting anywhere near a typewriter was remote. "Then I'm afraid, just until you get going with your literary work, we'll have to count you as nil," said Miss Marcy. "Thomas, of course, is bound to be nil for a few years yet. " Now if anyone in this family is nil as an earner, it is Rose; for though she plays the piano a bit and sings rather sweetly and is, of course, a lovely person, she has no real talents at all.
I was glad to think that would mean he'd get one square meal a day. Miss Marcy said it was a splendid idea, though it was a pity it meant striking out Topaz's ten shillings. " And because she doesn't bother with him much as a rule, it somehow sounded important. And she smiled so very sweetly. Poor Rose has been so miserable lately that a smile from her is like late afternoon sunshine after a long, wet day. I don't see how anyone could see Rose smile without feeling fond of her. I thought Stephen would be tremendously pleased, but he only nodded and swallowed several times.
She had read bits of that book aloud to me until I got so frightened that Mother stopped her. Just then we heard Mother calling from below; her voice sounded high and strange, almost despairing. " And I told myself I was running to help Mother; but I was really terrified of being near the tower any longer. Father said we had all better go. We climbed the ridges and then Rose and I took hands and ran down the smooth slope--faster and faster, so that I thought we should fall. All the time we were running I felt extremely frightened, but I enjoyed it.