Yes! I am going to teach in the very
school where I was myself taught. Miss W--- made me the offer, and I
preferred it to one or two proposals of private governess-ship, which
I had before received. I am sad--very sad--at the thoughts of leaving
home; but duty--necessity--these are stern mistresses, who will not be
disobeyed. Did I not once say you ought to be thankful for your
independence? I felt what I said at the time, and I repeat it now
with double earnestness; if anything would cheer me, it is the idea of
being so near you. Surely, you and Polly will come and see me; it
would be wrong in me to doubt it; you were never unkind yet. Emily
and I leave home on the 27th of this month; the idea of being together
consoles us both somewhat, and, truth, since I must enter a situation,
'My lines have fallen in pleasant places.' I both love and respect
Miss W-."
CHAPTER VIII
On the 29th of July, 1835, Charlotte, now a little more than nineteen
years old, went as teacher to Miss W---'s. Emily accompanied her as a
pupil; but she became literally ill from home-sickness, and could not
settle to anything, and after passing only three months at Roe Head,
returned to the parsonage and the beloved moors.
Miss Bronte gives the following reasons as those which prevented Emily's
remaining at school, and caused the substitution of her younger sister in
her place at Miss W---'s:--
"My sister Emily loved the moors.
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