[The Life of Charlotte Bronte - Volume 1 by Elizabeth Gaskell]@TWC D-Link bookThe Life of Charlotte Bronte - Volume 1 CHAPTER I 11/11
But as one dead member of the household follows another fast to the grave, the lines are pressed together, and the letters become small and cramped.
After the record of Anne's death, there is room for no other. But one more of that generation--the last of that nursery of six little motherless children--was yet to follow, before the survivor, the childless and widowed father, found his rest.
On another tablet, below the first, the following record has been added to that mournful list:-- ADJOINING LIE THE REMAINS OF CHARLOTTE, WIFE OF THE REV.
ARTHUR BELL NICHOLLS, A.B., AND DAUGHTER OF THE REV.P.BRONTE, A.B., INCUMBENT SHE DIED MARCH 31ST, 1855, IN THE 39TH YEAR OF HER AGE.
{2} This tablet, which corrects the error in the former tablet as to the age of Anne Bronte, bears the following inscription in Roman letters; the initials, however, being in old English..
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