Charlotte Brontë Quote

I suppose animals kept in cages, and so scantily fed as to be always upon the verge of famine, await their food as I awaited a letter... The letter — the well-beloved letter — would not come; and it was all of sweetness in life I had to look for.


Villette (1853)


I suppose animals kept in cages, and so scantily fed as to be always upon the verge of famine, await their food as I awaited a letter... The letter...

I suppose animals kept in cages, and so scantily fed as to be always upon the verge of famine, await their food as I awaited a letter... The letter...

I suppose animals kept in cages, and so scantily fed as to be always upon the verge of famine, await their food as I awaited a letter... The letter...

I suppose animals kept in cages, and so scantily fed as to be always upon the verge of famine, await their food as I awaited a letter... The letter...