Quotation from: Villette

Written by: Charlotte Bronte


"Permit me, then, to speak a little seriously to you before you go.
You are in a highly nervous state. I feel sure from what is apparent
in your look and manner, however well controlled, that whilst alone
this evening in that dismal, perishing sepulchral garret--that dungeon
under the leads, smelling of damp and mould, rank with phthisis and
catarrh: a place you never ought to enter--that you saw, or
_thought_ you saw, some appearance peculiarly calculated to
impress the imagination. I know that you _are_ not, nor ever
were, subject to material terrors, fears of robbers, &c.--I am not so
sure that a visitation, bearing a spectral character, would not shake
your very mind. Be calm now. This is all a matter of the nerves, I
see: but just specify the vision."

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