“I was at once content and stimulated with what I saw: I liked what I had seen, and wished to see more. Yet, for a long time, I treated you distantly, and sought your company rarely. I was an intellectual… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“I was for a while troubled with a haunting fear that if i handled the flower freely its bloom would fade -the sweet charm of freshness would leave it. I did not then know that it was no transitory blossom,… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image