Quotation from: Villette

Written by: Charlotte Bronte


Bretton! Bretton! and ten years ago shone reflected in that mirror.
And why did Bretton and my fourteenth year haunt me thus? Why, if they
came at all, did they not return complete? Why hovered before my
distempered vision the mere furniture, while the rooms and the
locality were gone? As to that pincushion made of crimson satin,
ornamented with gold beads and frilled with thread-lace, I had the
same right to know it as to know the screens--I had made it myself.
Rising with a start from the bed, I took the cushion in my hand and
examined it. There was the cipher "L. L. B." formed in gold beds, and
surrounded with an oval wreath embroidered in white silk. These were
the initials of my godmother's name--Lonisa Lucy Bretton.

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