Villette (Volume 1) - Softcover
Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1853. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XIV. THE FETE. As soon as Georgette was well, madame sent her away into the country. I was sorry; I loved the child, and her loss made me poorer than before. But I must not complain. I lived in a house full of robust life; I might have had^ompanions, and I chose solitude. Each of made me overtures of special intimacy; them all. One I found to be an honest woman, but a narrow thinker, a coarse feeler, and an egotist. The second was a Parisienne, externally refined--at heart, corrupt--without a creed, without a principle, without an affection: having penetrated the outward crust of decorum in this character, you found a slough beneath. She had a wonderful passion for presents; and, in this point, the third teacher-- a person otherwise characterless and insignificant-- closely resembled her. This last-named had also one other distinctive property--that of avarice. In her reigned the love of money for its own sake. The sight of a piece of gold would bring into her eyes a green glisten, singular to witness. She once, as a mark of high favour, took me upstairs, and, opening a secret drawer, showed me a hoard--a mass of coarse, large coin--about fifteen guineas, in five-franc pieces. She loved this hoard as a bird loves its eggs. These were her savings. She would come and talk to me about them with an infatuated and persevering dotage, strange to behold in a person not yet twenty-five. The Parisienne, on the other hand, was prodigal and profligate (in disposition, that is: as to action, Wot know). That latter quality showed its snake-head to me but once, peeping out very cautiously. A curious kind of reptile it seemed, judging from the glimpse I got; its novelty whetted my curiosity: if it would have come out boldly, perhaps I might philosophically have stood my ground, and coolly ...
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About the Author:
In 1846, Charlotte Bronte and her sisters began publishing under assumed gender-ambiguous pen-names because of ""a vague impression that authoresses are liable to be looked on with prejudice.""By 1849, all her siblings had died. The now well-known author of Jane Eyre travelled to London and enjoyed the friendship of many writers and intellectuals.In 1854, she married. She and her unborn child died soon thereafter.
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- PublisherGeneral Books LLC
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 021741558X
- ISBN 13 9780217415583
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages62
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