I seem to have gathered up a stray lamb in my arms: you wandered out o…

Charlotte Bronte
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I seem to have gathered up a stray lamb in my arms: you wandered out of the fold to seek your shepherd, did you, Jane? ✨ Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition), p.227, Penguin
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I desired liberty; for liberty I gasped; for liberty I uttered a prayer; it seemed scattered on the wind then faintly blowing. ✨ Charlotte Bronte (2013). Jane Eyre, p.111, Simon and Schuster
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