Quotation from: Villette

Written by: Charlotte Bronte

"Every answer to his queries was then refused? It seemed to be
considered in _that_ place--that conceited boudoir of a first
classe, with its pretentious book-cases, its green-baized desks, its
rubbish of flower-stands, its trash of framed pictures and maps, and
its foreign surveillante, forsooth!--it seemed to be the fashion to
think _there_ that the Professor of Literature was not worthy of
a reply! These were new ideas; imported, he did not doubt, straight
from 'la Grande Bretagne:' they savoured of island insolence and
arrogance."