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Quotation from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë
“This rose is not so fragrant as a summer flower, but it has stood through hardships none of _them_ could bear:”
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Chapter LIII (Project Gutenberg #969 (1920 John Murray edition))
At Staningley Helen gives Gilbert a Christmas rose that has bloomed through the snow, an image of her own endurance and her answer to his unspoken question.
Citation: "This rose is not so fragrant as a summer flower, but it has stood through hardships none of _them_ could bear:" — Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Chapter LIII (Project Gutenberg #969 (1920 John Murray edition)). (id the-tenant-of-wildfell-hall-q7)
Portrait: Anne Brontë by Patrick Branwell Brontë restored, Branwell Brontë, Public domain.
