Charlotte Bronte
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Because when she failed, I saw how she might have succeeded. Arrows that continually glanced off from Mr. Rochester's breast and fell harmless at his feet, might, I knew, if shot by a surer hand, have quivered keen in his proud heart - have called love into his stern eye, and softness into his sardonic face, or better still, without weapons a silent conquest might have been won. ✨ Charlotte Bronte (2014). Jane Eyre: Englische Originalausgabe, p.199, Edition Lempertz

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