This is a terrible hour, but it is often that darkest point which precedes the rise of day; that turn of the year when the icy January wind carries over the waste at once the dirge of departing winter, and the prophecy of coming spring.


Ch. 20: To-Morrow - Shirley (1849)

Charlotte Brontë Quotes

This is a terrible hour, but it is often that darkest point which precedes the rise of day; that turn of the year when the icy January wind carries...

This is a terrible hour, but it is often that darkest point which precedes the rise of day; that turn of the year when the icy January wind carries...

This is a terrible hour, but it is often that darkest point which precedes the rise of day; that turn of the year when the icy January wind carries...

This is a terrible hour, but it is often that darkest point which precedes the rise of day; that turn of the year when the icy January wind carries...