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The Life of Charlotte Bronte - Volume 1

CHAPTER I
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Everything about the place tells of the most dainty order, the most exquisite cleanliness.

The door-steps are spotless; the small old-fashioned window-panes glitter like looking- glass.

Inside and outside of that house cleanliness goes up into its essence, purity.
The little church lies, as I mentioned, above most of the houses in the village; and the graveyard rises above the church, and is terribly full of upright tombstones.

The chapel or church claims greater antiquity than any other in that part of the kingdom; but there is no appearance of this in the external aspect of the present edifice, unless it be in the two eastern windows, which remain unmodernized, and in the lower part of the steeple.

Inside, the character of the pillars shows that they were constructed before the reign of Henry VII.


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