Quotation from: Villette

Written by: Charlotte Bronte

"I will again take away that single epistle: being mine, I think I
have a right to reclaim it."

I felt raillery in his words: it made me grave and quiet; but I folded
up the letter and covered it from sight.

"You may hide it, but I can possess it any moment I choose. You don't
know my skill in sleight of hand; I might practise as a conjuror if I
liked. Mamma says sometimes, too, that I have a harmonizing property
of tongue and eye; but you never saw that in me--did you, Lucy?"