What a singularly deep impression her injustice seems to have made on your heart... Would you not be happier… — Charlotte Brontë
What a singularly deep impression her injustice seems to have made on your heart... Would you not be happier if you tried to forget her severity, together with the passionate emotions it excited? Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.
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