Quotation from: Villette

Written by: Charlotte Bronte

And in proof, I drew from my pocket a perfectly dry handkerchief,
still clean and in its folds.

Hereupon I was made the object of a string of strictures rather
piquant than polite. I listened with zest. After those two days of
unnatural silence, it was better than music to hear M. Paul haranguing
again just in his old fashion. I listened, and meantime solaced myself
and Sylvie with the contents of a bonbonniere, which M. Emanuel's
gifts kept well supplied with chocolate comfits: It pleased him to see
even a small matter from his hand duly appreciated. He looked at me
and the spaniel while we shared the spoil; he put up his penknife.
Touching my hand with the bundle of new-cut quills, he said:--"Dites
donc, petite soeur--speak frankly--what have you thought of me during
the last two days?"