My rest might have been blissful enough, only a sad heart broke it. ✨ …

Charlotte Bronte
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My rest might have been blissful enough, only a sad heart broke it. ✨ Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition), p.264, Penguin
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