Publisher's Synopsis
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: ...because purer)--of the fortifying resolve of firmness to bear the present, and wait the end. Could all the virgin population of (Birstall and Gomersal) receive and retain these sentiments, he would continually have to vail his crest before them. Perhaps, luckily, their feelings are not so acute as one would think, and the gentle man's shafts consequently don't wound so deeply as he might desire. I hope it is so.' A few days later she writes thus: ' ' Papa is still lying in bed, in a dark room, with his eyes bandaged. N o inflammation ensued, but still it appears the greatest care, perfect quiet, and utter privation of light are necessary to ensure a good result from the operation. He is very patient, but of course depressed and weary. He was allowed to try his sight for the first time yesterday. He could see dimly. Mr. Wilson seemed perfectly satisfied, and said all was right. I have had bad nights from the toothache since I came to Manchester.' All this time, notwithstanding the domestic anxieties which were harassing them---notwithstanding theill-success of their poems---the three sisters were trying that other literary venture to which Charlotte made allusion in one of her letters to the Messrs. Aylott. Each of them had written a prose tale, hoping that the three might be published together. 'Wuthering Heights' and ' Agnes Grey ' are before the world. The third, ' The Professor '---Charlotte's contribution--was published shortly after the appearance of the first edition of this memoir.' The plot in itself is of no great interest; but it is a poor kind of interest that depends upon startling incidents rather than upon dramatic development of character; and..
