Quotation from: Villette

Written by: Charlotte Bronte


"Miss Snowe--did you ever hear anything like mamma's wit? She is a
most sprightly woman of her size and age."


"Keep your compliments to yourself, sir, and do not neglect your own
size: which seems to me a good deal on the increase. Lucy, has he not
rather the air of an incipient John Bull? He used to be slender as an
eel, and now I fancy in him a sort of heavy dragoon bent--a beef-eater
tendency. Graham, take notice! If you grow fat I disown you."

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