Quotation from: Villette

Written by: Charlotte Bronte


"Ah! you said I had forgotten you all these weary days," said he.
"Poor old Emanuel! These are the thanks he gets for trudging about
three mortal weeks from house-painter to upholsterer, from cabinet-
maker to charwoman. Lucy and Lucy's cot, the sole thoughts in his
head!"


I hardly knew what to do. I first caressed the soft velvet on his
cuff, and then. I stroked the hand it surrounded. It was his
foresight, his goodness, his silent, strong, effective goodness, that
overpowered me by their proved reality. It was the assurance of his
sleepless interest which broke on me like a light from heaven; it was
his--I will dare to say it--his fond, tender look, which now shook me
indescribably. In the midst of all I forced myself to look at the
practical.

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