Quotation from: Villette

Written by: Charlotte Bronte


"Elle est toute pale," said he, speaking to himself; "cette figure-la
me fait mal."


"Ah! I am not pleasant to look at----?"


I could not help saying this; the words came unbidden: I never
remember the time when I had not a haunting dread of what might be the
degree of my outward deficiency; this dread pressed me at the moment
with special force.


A great softness passed upon his countenance; his violet eyes grew
suffused and glistening under their deep Spanish lashes: he started
up; "Let us walk on."

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