Certainly this would be
the case on the man's part; and on the woman's--God help her, if she
is left to love passionately and alone.
"I am tolerably well convinced that I shall never marry at all. Reason
tells me so, and I am not so utterly the slave of feeling but that I
can _occasionally hear_ her voice."
"June 2nd, 1840.
"M. is not yet come to Haworth; but she is to come on the condition
that I first go and stay a few days there. If all be well, I shall go
next Wednesday. I may stay at G--- until Friday or Saturday, and the
early part of the following week I shall pass with you, if you will
have me--which last sentence indeed is nonsense, for as I shall be
glad to see you, so I know you will be glad to see me. This
arrangement will not allow much time, but it is the only practicable
one which, considering all the circumstances, I can effect. Do not
urge me to stay more than two or three days, because I shall be
obliged to refuse you. I intend to walk to Keighley, there to take
the coach as far as B---, then to get some one to carry my box, and to
walk the rest of the way to G-. If I manage this, I think I shall
contrive very well. I shall reach B. by about five o'clock, and then
I shall have the cool of the evening for the walk.
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