Anne Bronte - The Brontës - Complete Novels of Charlotte, Emily & Anne Brontë - All 8 Books in One Edition

“Not if she were rich?”

“Not if she were dressed in gems. I could not love — I could not fancy — I could not endure her. My taste must have satisfaction, or disgust would break out in despotism, or worse — freeze to utter iciness.”

“What! Bob, if you married an honest, good-natured, and wealthy lass, though a little hard-favoured, couldn’t you put up with the high cheekbones, the rather wide mouth, and reddish hair?”

“I’ll never try, I tell you. Grace at least I will have, and youth and symmetry — yes, and what I call beauty.”

“And poverty, and a nursery full of bairns you can neither clothe nor feed, and very soon an anxious, faded mother; and then bankruptcy, discredit — a lifelong struggle.”

“Let me alone, Yorke.”

“If you are romantic, Robert, and especially if you are already in love, it is of no use talking.”

“I am not romantic. I am stripped of romance as bare as the white tenters in that field are of cloth.”

“Always use such figures of speech, lad; I can understand them. And there is no love affair to disturb your judgment?”

“I thought I had said enough on that subject before. Love for me? Stuff!”

“Well, then, if you are sound both in heart and head, there is no reason why you should not profit by a good chance if it offers; therefore, wait and see.”

“You are quite oracular, Yorke.”

“I think I am a bit i’ that line. I promise ye naught and I advise ye naught; but I bid ye keep your heart up, and be guided by circumstances.”

“My namesake the physician’s almanac could not speak more guardedly.”

“In the meantime, I care naught about ye, Robert Moore: ye are nothing akin to me or mine, and whether ye lose or find a fortune it maks no difference to me. Go home, now. It has stricken ten. Miss Hortense will be wondering where ye are.”

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