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" I am never unhappy; my present life is so delightful, so congenial to my own nature, compared to that of a governess. My time, constantly occupied, passes too rapidly. Hitherto both Emily and I have had good health, and therefore we have been able to... "
The Life of Charlotte Brontë - Page 251
by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - 1857
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The Life of Charlotte Brontë, Volume 1

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - 1857 - 640 pages
...that of a governess. My time, constantly occupied, passes too rapidly. Hitherto both Emily and I have had good health, and therefore we have been able to...He is very angry with me just at present, because I hare written a translation which he chose to stigmatize as lpeu correct.' He did not tell me so, but...
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The Life of Charlotte Brontë, Volume 1

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - Authors, English - 1857 - 376 pages
...that of a governess. My time, constantly occupied, passes too rapidly. Hitherto both Emily and I have had good health, and therefore we have been able to...one individual of whom I have not yet spoken — M. Héger, the husband of Madame. He is professor of rhetoric, a man of power as to mind, but very choleric...
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The Life of Charlotte Brontë

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - 1862 - 612 pages
...that of a governess. My time, constantly occupied, passes too rapidly. Hitherto both Emily and I have had good health, and therefore we have been able to...well. There is one individual of whom I have not yet spoken—M. Heger, the husband of Madame. He is professor of rhetorie, a man of power as to mind, but...
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Madame D'Arblay

William Henry Davenport Adams - Women - 1878 - 412 pages
...that of a governess. My time, constantly occupied, passes too rapidly. Hitherto both Emily and I have had good health, and therefore we have been able to...because I have written a translation which he chose to characterize as ' peu correct.' He did not tell me so, but wrote the word on the margin of my book,...
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Women of fashion, and representative women in letters ..., Issue 50, Volume 2

William Henry Davenport Adams - 1878 - 416 pages
...that of a governess. My time, constantly occupied, passes too rapidly. Hitherto both Emily and I have had good health, and therefore we have been able to...because I have written a translation which he chose to characterize as ' peu correct.' He did not tell me so, but wrote the word on the margin of my book,...
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Two Great Englishwomen, Mrs. Browning & Charlott Brontë: With an Essay on ...

Peter Bayne - English poetry - 1881 - 426 pages
...pleasant for Charlotte if M. Heger had not been what he was, may remain a question. Him she describes as " a man of power as to mind, but very choleric and irritable in temperament." The words describe the essential characteristic of Charlotte Bronte's pet hero, be his name Eochester,...
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Emily Brontë

Agnes Mary Frances Robinson - Authors, English - 1883 - 348 pages
...that of a governess. My time, constantly occupied, passes too rapidly. Hitherto both Emily and I have had good health, and therefore we have been able to...There is one individual of whom I have not yet spoken — Monsieur Heger, the husband of Madame. He is professor of rhetoric — a man of power as to mind,...
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Emily Brontë

Agnes Mary F. Duclaux - 1883 - 254 pages
...that of a governess. My time, constantly occupied, passes too rapidly. Hitherto both Emily and I have had good health, and therefore we have been able to...work well. There is one individual of whom I have n G 2 yet spoken — Monsieur Heger, the husband of Madame. He is professor of rhetoric — a man of...
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Celebrated Englishwomen of the Victorian Era, Volume 1

William Henry Davenport Adams - Great Britain - 1884 - 242 pages
...that of a governess. My time, constantly occupied, passes too rapidly. Hitherto both Emily and I have had good health, and therefore we have been able to...because I have written a translation which he chose to characterize as "j>eu correct." He did not tell me so, but wrote the word on the margin of my book,...
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Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle

Clement King Shorter - Literary Criticism - 1896 - 558 pages
...as did all his pupils, very heartily. Charlotte's first impression, indeed, was not flattering : ' He is professor of rhetoric, a man of power as to mind, but 1 "The Bronte's at BruFwels,' by Frederika Macdonald.— The Woman at Home, July 1894. a This statement...
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