Meme que vous me perdiez (ose-je croire que mon depart vous etait un chagrin ?) vous attendites l'arrivee de votre frere, et de votre soeur.

J'ai donne a mes soeurs les pommes que vous leur envoyiez avec tant de bonte; elles disent qu'elles sont sur que Mademoiselle E.est tres-aimable et bonne; l'une et l'autre sont extremement impatientes de vous voir; j'espere qu'en peu de mois elles auront ce plaisir." But it was some time yet before the friends could meet, and meanwhile they agreed to correspond once a month.

There were no events to chronicle in the Haworth letters.

Quiet days, occupied in reaching, and feminine occupations in the house, did not present much to write about; and Charlotte was naturally driven to criticise books.
Of these there were many in different plights, and according to their plight, kept in different places.

The well-bound were ranged in the sanctuary of Mr.Bronte's study; but the purchase of books was a necessary luxury to him, but as it was often a choice between binding an old one, or buying a new one, the familiar volume, which had been hungrily read by all the members of the family, was sometimes in such a condition that the bedroom shelf was considered its fitting place.