Quotation from: Villette

Written by: Charlotte Bronte


Graham, however, must go: his was a profession whose claims are
neither to be ignored nor deferred. He left the room; but before he
could leave the house there was a return. I am sure he came back--not
for the paper, or card in his desk, which formed his ostensible
errand--but to assure himself, by one more glance, that Paulina's
aspect was really such as memory was bearing away: that he had not
been viewing her somehow by a partial, artificial light, and making a
fond mistake. No! he found the impression true--rather, indeed, he
gained than lost by this return: he took away with him a parting look
--shy, but very soft--as beautiful, as innocent, as any little fawn
could lift out of its cover of fern, or any lamb from its meadow-bed.

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