He seems to have rated Emily's genius as something even higher than Charlotte's; and her estimation of their relative powers was the same.

Emily had a head for logic, and a capability of argument, unusual in a man, and rare indeed in a woman, according to M.Heger.

Impairing the force of this gift, was a stubborn tenacity of will, which rendered her obtuse to all reasoning where her own wishes, or her own sense of right, was concerned.

"She should have been a man--a great navigator," said M.Heger in speaking of her.

"Her powerful reason would have deduced new spheres of discovery from the knowledge of the old; and her strong imperious will would never have been daunted by opposition or difficulty; never have given way but with life." And yet, moreover, her faculty of imagination was such that, if she had written a history, her view of scenes and characters would have been so vivid, and so powerfully expressed, and supported by such a show of argument, that it would have dominated over the reader, whatever might have been his previous opinions, or his cooler perceptions of its truth.