Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Villette(2) by Charlotte Bronte

Some people's movements provoke the soul by their loose awkwardness...

...his destitution of purse.

...the weather and rooms being too hot to give substantial fabrics suffrance...

I read your skull that night you came...

When my tongue once got free, and my voice took its true pitch, and found its natural tone...

...he fumed like a bottled storm.

...a want of companionship maintained in my soul the cravings of a most deadly famine.

...but this duty had become to him a sort of form: he went through it with the phlegm of custom.

I said I was perishing for a word of advice or an accent of comfort.

It was cold, and pierced me to the vitals.

I saw in his countenance a teeming plenitude of comment, question and interest...

I have done nothing wrong: my life has not been active enough for any dark deed, either of romance or reality...

...my sympathy desired to keep its cornucopia replenished and ready for outpouring.











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