[Villette by Charlotte Bronte]@TWC D-Link bookVillette CHAPTER XX 29/40
She has made me feel that nine parts in ten of my heart have always been sound as a bell, and the tenth bled from a mere puncture: a lancet-prick that will heal in a trice." "You are angry just now, heated and indignant; you will think and feel differently to-morrow." "_I_ heated and indignant! You don't know me.
On the contrary, the heat is gone: I am as cool as the night--which, by the way, may be too cool for you.
We will go back." "Dr.John, this is a sudden change." "Not it: or if it be, there are good reasons for it--two good reasons: I have told you one.
But now let us re-enter." We did not easily regain our seats; the lottery was begun, and all was excited confusion; crowds blocked the sort of corridor along which we had to pass: it was necessary to pause for a time.
Happening to glance round--indeed I half fancied I heard my name pronounced--I saw quite near, the ubiquitous, the inevitable M.Paul.He was looking at me gravely and intently: at me, or rather at my pink dress--sardonic comment on which gleamed in his eye.
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