Quotation from: Villette

Written by: Charlotte Bronte

"Don't come in," said I to him; but he stepped a moment into the well-
lighted vestibule. I had not wished him to see that "the water stood
in my eyes," for his was too kind a nature ever to be needlessly shown
such signs of sorrow. He always wished to heal--to relieve--when,
physician as he was, neither cure nor alleviation were, perhaps, in
his power.