Quotation from: Villette

Written by: Charlotte Bronte


"Child as I was," remarked Paulina, "I wonder how I dared be so
venturous. To me he seems now all sacred, his locks are inaccessible,
and, Lucy, I feel a sort of fear, when I look at his firm, marble
chin, at his straight Greek features. Women are called beautiful,
Lucy; he is not like a woman, therefore I suppose he is not beautiful,
but what is he, then? Do other people see him with my eyes? Do
_you_ admire him?"


"I'll tell you what I do, Paulina," was once my answer to her many
questions. "_I never see him_. I looked at him twice or thrice
about a year ago, before he recognised me, and then I shut my eyes;
and if he were to cross their balls twelve times between each day's
sunset and sunrise, except from memory, I should hardly know what
shape had gone by."

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