. The Brontës in Ireland; or, Facts stranger than fiction. PKIbB\lERl\N MllIlM., , WHI-KL BKOMtWAS PRECENTOR. perately in love with each other, and that oppositionhad only fanned the flame. Helens pockets anddesk were found to be full of Patricks amatorypoetry, and both claimed the right to act as theypleased. It was understood that the first tenderadvances had been on the ladys part, and her lover 256 THE BRONTES IN IRELAND felt bound to remain loyal to her so long as sheheld out. There were many versions of the incident, fromwhich it would be difficult to weave one consistentn
. The Brontës in Ireland; or, Facts stranger than fiction. PKIbB\lERl\N MllIlM., , WHI-KL BKOMtWAS PRECENTOR. perately in love with each other, and that oppositionhad only fanned the flame. Helens pockets anddesk were found to be full of Patricks amatorypoetry, and both claimed the right to act as theypleased. It was understood that the first tenderadvances had been on the ladys part, and her lover 256 THE BRONTES IN IRELAND felt bound to remain loyal to her so long as sheheld out. There were many versions of the incident, fromwhich it would be difficult to weave one consistentnarrative, nor is it a matter of much thing is certain, namely, that all the partiesconcerned made great fools of themselves, of whomthe greatest was Patrick Bronte. Helens father was an important officer in theGlascar Presbyterian Church, to which a youngminister, John Rogers, had just been called. Thenew minister was wholly unacquainted with Bronte,or with the merits of the difficulty into which hehad got ; but on the representation of so
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