Quotation from: Villette

Written by: Charlotte Bronte


"But for the nun's black gown and white veil, he would have been
caught again and again both by you and that tiger-Jesuit, M. Paul. He
thinks you both capital ghost-seers, and very brave. What I wonder at
is, rather your secretiveness than your courage. How could you endure
the visitations of that long spectre, time after time, without crying
out, telling everybody, and rousing the whole house and neighbourhood?


"Oh, and how did you like the nun as a bed-fellow? _I_ dressed
her up: didn't I do it well? Did you shriek when you saw her: I should
have gone mad; but then you have such nerves!--real iron and bend-
leather! I believe you feel nothing. You haven't the same
sensitiveness that a person of my constitution has. You seem to me
insensible both to pain and fear and grief. You are a real old
Diogenes.

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