. Charlotte Brontë at home. eborne through, down the sloping path tothe church porch. Such was the customof the region. The mute lucmeiifo iiior/faced the door by which the living went inand out of their temporary dwelling inbusiness pertaining to the life that now is. CHAPTER VI MISS WOOLERS school—MARY TAYLORAND ELLEN NUSSEY AMONG the incidents transmitted to ustending to prove that Mr. Bronte wasnot SO indifferent to his childrens happinessor so unobservant of their occupations aswe have inclined to believe, we note twobelonging to the five years spent by Char-lotte under his tutelage after
. Charlotte Brontë at home. eborne through, down the sloping path tothe church porch. Such was the customof the region. The mute lucmeiifo iiior/faced the door by which the living went inand out of their temporary dwelling inbusiness pertaining to the life that now is. CHAPTER VI MISS WOOLERS school—MARY TAYLORAND ELLEN NUSSEY AMONG the incidents transmitted to ustending to prove that Mr. Bronte wasnot SO indifferent to his childrens happinessor so unobservant of their occupations aswe have inclined to believe, we note twobelonging to the five years spent by Char-lotte under his tutelage after her return fromCowan Bridge in the autumn of 1825. One has been given in her account ofthe origin of the strange plays inventedby the four, if the father had a favouritein the flock it was his only son,—the hand-somest, and reckoned by family and neigh-bours to be the most brilliant of them girls had no dolls, but a box of toy-soldiers was brought from Leeds for thepetted boy. Still the father offered no ob- 66. # u Early MSS. 67 jection to the division of the puppets forthe furtherance of the play of YoungMen. Mr. Shorter tells of a sixpenny blank-book given to Charlotte by her father, onthe cover of which is written : All that is ivritten in this book ?mtst beill a good, plain, and legible hand.—T. B. He was cognisant, then, of the scribblingpropensities of his daughter, had probablyhad a glimpse of the MSS. done in micro-scopic characters, and gave a broad hint asto his wishes on that head. The earliest date affixed to any of theBronte manuscripts is upon—as we ob-serve with surprise—an exceedingly child-ish production, or so says Mr. Shorter, Bv P. B. Bronte. The title is TheBattle of ]Vashington, and there are full-page coloured illustrations. It was writtenin 1827, Bran well being then ten years babyhood he fancied himself, andwas believed by his kindred, to be an artistborn. Charlotte made no such claim for herself,but her passionate love of
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