Quotation from: Villette

Written by: Charlotte Bronte


I will go farther. I _do_ believe there are some human beings so
born, so reared, so guided from a soft cradle to a calm and late
grave, that no excessive suffering penetrates their lot, and no
tempestuous blackness overcasts their journey. And often, these are
not pampered, selfish beings, but Nature's elect, harmonious and
benign; men and women mild with charity, kind agents of God's kind
attributes.


Let me not delay the happy truth. Graham Bretton and Paulina de
Bassompierre were married, and such an agent did Dr. Bretton prove. He
did not with time degenerate; his faults decayed, his virtues ripened;
he rose in intellectual refinement, he won in moral profit: all dregs
filtered away, the clear wine settled bright and tranquil. Bright,
too, was the destiny of his sweet wife. She kept her husband's love,
she aided in his progress--of his happiness she was the corner stone.

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