Quotation from: Villette

Written by: Charlotte Bronte

Suppressing a yawn, I said I hardly knew.

"Had it moved me?"

"I thought it had made me a little sleepy."

(After a pause:) "Allons donc! It was of no use taking that tone with
him. Bad as I was--and he should be sorry to have to name all my
faults at a breath--God and nature had given me 'trop de sensibilite
et de sympathie' not to be profoundly affected by an appeal so
touching."