When do you wish to go? Could I meet
you at Leeds? To take a gig from Haworth to B., would be to me a very
serious increase of expense, and I happen to be very low in cash. Oh!
rich people seem to have many pleasures at their command which we are
debarred from! However, no repining.
"Say when you go, and I shall be able in my answer to say decidedly
whether I can accompany you or not. I must--I will--I'm set upon
it--I'll be obstinate and bear down all opposition.
"P.S.--Since writing the above, I find that aunt and papa have
determined to go to Liverpool for a fortnight, and take us all with
them. It is stipulated, however, that I should give up the Cleathorpe
scheme. I yield reluctantly."
I fancy that, about this time, Mr. Bronte found it necessary, either from
failing health or the increased populousness of the parish, to engage the
assistance of a curate. At least, it is in a letter written this summer
that I find mention of the first of a succession of curates, who
henceforward revolved round Haworth Parsonage, and made an impression on
the mind of one of its inmates which she has conveyed pretty distinctly
to the world. The Haworth curate brought his clerical friends and
neighbours about the place, and for a time the incursions of these, near
the parsonage tea-time, formed occurrences by which the quietness of the
life there was varied, sometimes pleasantly, sometimes disagreeably.
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