The Professor, by Charlotte Bronte and Poems by Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte, and the REV. Patrick Bronte, Etc (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 edition. Excerpt: ...affairs always are amongst rational people: you offered her your--stepped in with a higher bid; she accepted, and he has got her: a correct transaction--perfectly so--business-like and legitimate. And now we'll talk of something else.' youth and your talents--such as they are--in exchange for her position and money: I don't suppose you took appearance, or what is called love, into the account--for I understand ' she is older than you, and Brown-says, rather sensible looking than beautiful. She, having then no chance of making a better bargain, was at first inclined to come to terms with you, but Pelet--the head of a flourishing school ' Do, ' said I, very glad to dismiss the topic, and especially glad to have bafiied the sagacity of my cross-questioner--if, indeed, I had baffied it; for though his words now led away from the dangerous point, his eyes, keen and watchful, seemed still preoccupied with the former idea. ' You want to hear news from X----? And what interest can you have in X----? You left no friends there, for you made none. Nobody ever asks after you--neither man nor woman; and if I mention your name in company, the men look as if I had spoken of Prester John; and the women sneer covertly. Our X--belles must have disliked you. How did you excite their displeasure?' 'I don't know. I seldom spoke to them--they were nothing to me. I considered them only as something to be glanced at from a distance; their dresses and faces were often pleasing enough to the eye: but I could not understand their conversation, nor even read their countenances. When I caught snatches of what they said, I could never make much of it; and the play of their lips and eyes did not help me at...