It is a very strange sensation to inexperienced youth to feel itself quite alone in the world, cut adrift… — Charlotte Brontë
It is a very strange sensation to inexperienced youth to feel itself quite alone in the world, cut adrift from every connection, uncertain whether the port to which it is bound can be reached, and prevented by many impediments from returning to that it has quitted.
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