Quotation from: Villette

Written by: Charlotte Bronte

Taking the weed from his lips, he threw the remnant amongst the
shrubs, where, for a moment, it lay glowing in the gloom.

"Look, at it," said he: "is not that spark like an eye watching you
and me?"

He took a turn down the walk; presently returning, he went on:--"I
have seen, Miss Lucy, things to me unaccountable, that have made me
watch all night for a solution, and I have not yet found it."