And from these conflicting characters, he would require them to sift and collect the elements of truth, and try to unite them into a perfect whole.
This kind of exercise delighted Charlotte.

It called into play her powers of analysis, which were extraordinary, and she very soon excelled in it.
Wherever the Brontes could be national they were so, with the same tenacity of attachment which made them suffer as they did whenever they left Haworth.

They were Protestant to the backbone in other things beside their religion, but pre-eminently so in that.

Touched as Charlotte was by the letter of St.Ignatius before alluded to, she claimed equal self-devotion, and from as high a motive, for some of the missionaries of the English Church sent out to toil and to perish on the poisonous African coast, and wrote as an "imitation," "Lettre d'un Missionnaire, Sierra Leone, Afrique." Something of her feeling, too, appears in the following letter:-- "Brussels, 1842.
"I consider it doubtful whether I shall come home in September or not.
Madame Heger has made a proposal for both me and Emily to stay another half-year, offering to dismiss her English master, and take me as English teacher; also to employ Emily some part of each day in teaching music to a certain number of the pupils.

For these services we are to be allowed to continue our studies in French and German, and to have board, &c., without paying for it; no salaries, however, are offered.