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Quotation from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

“How I used to pray to Heaven for consolation and support!”

Charlotte Brontë (spoken by Lucy Snowe)

Villette, Ch. XV (Project Gutenberg text)

Portrait of Charlotte Brontë

Alone in the empty school through the stormy weeks of the long vacation, Lucy recalls her nights of dread.

Citation: "How I used to pray to Heaven for consolation and support!" — Charlotte Brontë, Villette, Ch. XV (Project Gutenberg text). (id villette-q3)

Portrait: CBRichmond, George Richmond, Public domain.

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