Quotation from: Villette

Written by: Charlotte Bronte


In quitting the room he paused once more at my desk.


"And your letter?" said he, this time not quite fiercely.


"I have not yet read it, Monsieur."


"Ah! it is too good to read at once; you save it, as, when I was a
boy, I used to save a peach whose bloom was very ripe?"


The guess came so near the truth, I could not prevent a suddenly-
rising warmth in my face from revealing as much.

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