The eagerness of a listener quickens the tongue of a narrator. ✨ Charl…

Charlotte Bronte
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The eagerness of a listener quickens the tongue of a narrator. ✨ Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition), p.165, Penguin
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The eagerness of a listener quickens the tongue of a narrator. ✨ Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition), p.165, Penguin

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