Depend upon it, we are not to have any such for many a long month to
come. I get an interesting impression of old age upon my face; and
when you see me next I shall certainly wear caps and spectacles."
CHAPTER XI
I am not aware of all the circumstances which led to the relinquishment
of the Lille plan. Brussels had had from the first a strong attraction
for Charlotte; and the idea of going there, in preference to any other
place, had only been given up in consequence of the information received
of the second-rate character of its schools. In one of her letters
reference has been made to Mrs. Jenkins, the wife of the chaplain of the
British Embassy. At the request of his brother--a clergyman, living not
many miles from Haworth, and an acquaintance of Mr. Bronte's--she made
much inquiry, and at length, after some discouragement in her search,
heard of a school which seemed in every respect desirable. There was an
English lady who had long lived in the Orleans family, amidst the various
fluctuations of their fortunes, and who, when the Princess Louise was
married to King Leopold, accompanied her to Brussels, in the capacity of
reader. This lady's granddaughter was receiving her education at the
pensionnat of Madame Heger; and so satisfied was the grandmother with the
kind of instruction given, that she named the establishment, with high
encomiums, to Mrs.
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