Charlotte Bronte and Her Circle potx

... XVII Charlotte Bronte and Her Circle, by Clement The Project Gutenberg eBook, Charlotte Bronte and Her Circle, by Clement K. Shorter This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and ... GUTENBERG EBOOK CHARLOTTE BRONTE AND HER CIRCLE* ** Transcribed from the 1896 Hodder and Stoughton edition by Les Bowler. CHARLOTTE BRONTE AND HER CIRCLE BY...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 01:20

... she summoned her to her sofa, and there quickly filled her lap with the porcelain, the ivory, the waxen contents of her "boite;" pouring out, meantime, explanations and raptures in ... short, and as full in the skirt as it could be gathered, replaced the brown frock she had previously worn; a wreath of rosebuds circled her forehead; her feet were dressed in silk...

Ngày tải lên: 18/10/2013, 01:15

... remember I kissed her as I loosened her little hands from my neck; and I cried over her with strange emotion, and quitted her because I feared my sobs would break her still sound repose. She seemed ... state between sleeping and waking, you noticed her entrance and her actions; but feverish, almost delirious as you were, you ascribed to her a goblin appearance differ...

Ngày tải lên: 18/10/2013, 01:15

... First, there was Mrs. Eshton and two of her daughters. She had evidently been a handsome woman, and was well preserved still. Of her daughters, the eldest, Amy, was rather little: naive, and child-like ... pressed me into her service, and I was all day in the storeroom, helping (or hindering) her and the cook; learning to make custards and cheese-cakes and French pa...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2013, 20:15

... had kindly taken her hand, and given her a kiss. Amy and Louisa Eshton had cried out simultaneously "What a love of a child!" And then they had called her to a sofa, where she now sat, ... picture and Mrs. Fairfax's description. The noble bust, the sloping shoulders, the graceful neck, the dark eyes and black ringlets were all there; but her face? Her fa...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2013, 20:15

... hedge; and while I sat, I heard wheels, and saw a coach come on. I stood up and lifted my hand; it stopped. I asked where it was going: the driver named a place a long way off, and where I ... that here I should die: but I was soon up; crawling forwards on my hands and knees, and then again raised to my feet as eager and as determined as ever to reach the road. When I got...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2013, 20:15

... now, and would very likely stay there a fortnight longer." "Was there any lady of the house?" "Nay, there was naught but her, and she was housekeeper;" and of her, ... last, "let her sit there at present, and ask her no questions; in ten minutes more, give her the remainder of that milk and bread. Mary and Diana, let us go into the parlou...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2013, 20:15

... treasure at her feet; incredulity and delight were expressed by her looks and gestures; the stranger fastened the bracelets on her arms and the rings in her ears. It was Eliezer and Rebecca: ... white, a long veil on her head, and a wreath of roses round her brow; by her side walked Mr. Rochester, and together they drew near the table. They knelt; while Mrs. De...

Ngày tải lên: 29/10/2013, 03:15

... looked again: but she drew her bonnet and her bandage closer about her face, and again beckoned me to depart. The flame illuminated her hand stretched out: roused now, and on the alert for discoveries, ... from beneath a white band which passed under her chin, and came half over her cheeks, or rather jaws: her eye confronted me at once, with a bold and direct gaze....

Ngày tải lên: 29/10/2013, 03:15

... clergyman. "This, then, was his father's residence?" "Aye; old Mr. Rivers lived here, and his father, and grandfather, and gurt (great) grandfather afore him." "The name, ... do I forgive you now. Shake hands." She put her floury and horny hand into mine; another and heartier smile illumined her rough face, and from that moment we were f...

Ngày tải lên: 29/10/2013, 03:15