; so, if
everything else fails, I can turn my hand to that, if anybody will
give me good wages for little labour. I won't be a cook; I hate
soothing. I won't be a nurserymaid, nor a lady's-maid, far less a
lady's companion, or a mantua-maker, or a straw-bonnet maker, or a
taker-in of plain work. I won't be anything but a housemaid . . .
With regard to my visit to G., I have as yet received no invitation;
but if I should be asked, though I should feel it a great act of self-
denial to refuse, yet I have almost made up my mind to do so, though
the society of the T.'s is one of the most rousing pleasures I have
ever known. Good-bye, my darling E., &c.
"P. S.--Strike out that word 'darling;' it is humbug. Where's the use
of protestations? We've known each other, and liked each other, a
good while; that's enough."
Not many weeks after this was written, Charlotte also became engaged as a
governess. I intend carefully to abstain from introducing the names of
any living people, respecting whom I may have to tell unpleasant truths,
or to quote severe remarks from Miss Bronte's letters; but it is
necessary that the difficulties she had to encounter in her various
phases of life, should be fairly and frankly made known, before the force
"of what was resisted" can be at all understood.
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