At any rate, I cannot come this week, for we are in the very
thickest melee of the Repetitions. I was hearing the terrible fifth
section when your note arrived. But Miss Wooler says I must go to
Mary next Friday, as she promised for me on Whit-Sunday; and on Sunday
morning I will join you at church, if it be convenient, and stay till
Monday. There's a free and easy proposal! Miss W--- has driven me to
it. She says her character is implicated."
Good, kind Miss W---! however monotonous and trying were the duties
Charlotte had to perform under her roof, there was always a genial and
thoughtful friend watching over her, and urging her to partake of any
little piece of innocent recreation that might come in her way. And in
those Midsummer holidays of 1836, her friend E. came to stay with her at
Haworth, so there was one happy time secured.
Here follows a series of letters, not dated, but belonging to the latter
portion of this year; and again we think of the gentle and melancholy
Cowper.
"My dear dear E.,
"I am at this moment trembling all over with excitement, after reading
your note; it is what I never received before--it is the unrestrained
pouring out of a warm, gentle, generous heart . . . I thank you with
energy for this kindness. I will no longer shrink from answering your
questions.
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