BRONTE, C.: Villette (Unabridged)

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    Featuring
    • COMPOSER
      BRONTË, CHARLOTTE
    • PERFORMER
      Mandy, Read By Weston
    Product Details
    • RELEASE DATE
      November 01, 2007
    • UPC
      9789626344682
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      NAX46812
    • LABEL
      Naxos AudioBooks
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      15
    • GENRE
    Works
    1. Chapter 1: Bretton

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    2. That same evening at nine o'clock …

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    3. On going to bed an hour afterwards …

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    4. Chapter 2: Paulina

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    5. Mr. Home was a stern-featured …

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    6. Graham was at that time …

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    7. Chapter 3: The Playmates

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    8. Graham - not failing in his way …

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    9. It happened that Graham was not …

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    10. It was sufficiently comical …

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    11. Graham forgot his impatience …

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    12. With these words she gathered Graham …

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    13. Her lip trembled …

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    14. When I thought she could listen to me …

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    15. Chapter 4: Miss Marchmont

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    16. Two hot, close rooms thus became my world …

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    17. I love Memory to-night,' she said.

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    18. What is the matter?' I demanded.

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    19. Chapter 5: Turning a New Leaf

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    20. I stored up this piece of casual information.

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    21. Chapter 6: London

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    22. My state of mind, and all accompanying …

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    23. Towards morning her discourse ran …

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    24. She stared, then carelessly ran on …

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    25. I was not sick till long after …

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    26. Chapter 7: Villette

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    27. I had hoped we might reach Villette …

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    28. He tore a leaf from his pocket-book …

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    29. A quarter of an hour passed …

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    30. Chapter 8: Madame Beck

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    31. Her duty done - I felt that …

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    32. When attired, Madame Beck …

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    33. As Madame Beck ruled …

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    34. Behind the house was a large garden …

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    35. Dites donc,' said Madame sternly.

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    36. It seems that three titled belles …

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    37. Chapter 9: Isidore

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    38. By degrees, as I acquired fluency …

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    39. Finding that she carried the thing …

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    40. I viewed her from top to toe.

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    41. That will do, Miss Fanshawe.'

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    42. Chapter 10: Dr. John

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    43. It appeared she did not find …

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    44. No sooner did Fifine emerge …

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    45. Chapter 11: The Portress's Cabinet

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    46. Had she, indeed, floating visions …

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    47. But while I pondered …

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    48. Chapter 12: The Casket

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    49. From the first I was tempted …

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    50. To-night, I was not so mutinous …

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    51. I wish I did know whom …'

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    52. He stood looking down …

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    53. Chapter 13: A Sneeze Out of Season

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    54. When I vanished …

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    55. On revisiting my drawers …

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    56. Le marmot n'a rien, n'est-ce pas?'

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    57. He instantly tore the billet …

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    58. Chapter 14: The Fete

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    59. About this time …

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    60. The day preceding Madame's fete …

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    61. Being dressed at least a couple …

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    62. A thousand objections rushed …

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    63. In this exercise the afternoon passed …

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    64. In an instant we were out of doors …

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    65. St. Pierre sneered again …

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    66. No sooner was the play over …

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    67. Madame knew something of the world;

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    68. I suppose you are nobody's daughter …'

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    69. The answer Dr. John would have given …

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    70. I may, perhaps, look after her a little;'

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    71. I cut short these confidences somewhat …'

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    72. Chapter 15: The Long Vacation

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    73. I hesitate,' said he,

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    74. My heart almost died within me;

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    75. The cretin being gone …

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    76. One evening - I was not delirious …

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    77. Of course, I had not expected he would be …

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    78. Chapter 16: Auld Lang Syne

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    79. Where was I?

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    80. Reader; I felt alarmed!

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    81. Do you like it, Polly?' I asked.

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    82. Do let me go down-stairs, madam.'

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    83. To say anything on the subject …

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    84. For my part, I just ventured to inquire …

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    85. Chapter 17: La Terrasse

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    86. She left me, and I lay in bed …

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    87. What did Madame Beck mean …'

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    88. Lucy, you ought to travel for about …'

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    89. Chapter 18: We Quarrel

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    90. To one who had named him 'slave,'

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    91. Ginevra!' He thought her so fair …

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    92. Chapter 19: The Cleopatra

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    93. His mother possessed a good development …

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    94. It seemed to me that an original and good …

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    95. M. Paul's hair was shorn close as raven down.

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    96. How did you get on with Marie Broc?'

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    97. Chapter 20: The Concert

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    98. By this time we had got into …

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    99. Observing that Dr. John's attention …

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    100. I knew another of these seraphs …

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    101. Ginevra saw you, I think?'

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    102. The concert over, the Lottery …

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    103. We did not easily regain our seats …

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    104. And yet he had neither forgiven …

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    105. I am so: just as Rhadamanthus …'

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    106. Chapter 21: Reaction

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    107. If,' muttered she, 'if he should write'

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    108. Ere long the bell rang its reveillee …

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    109. I had time to bathe my eyes …

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    110. Go to your practising,' said I

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    111. A fortnight passed;

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    112. When I re-entered the schoolroom …

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    113. Chapter 22: The Letter

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    114. Say what you will, reader …

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    115. He asked me, smiling,

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    116. They will not come here,' I answered;

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    117. Chapter 23: Vashti

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    118. Mademoiselle Lucy!' cried Rosine …

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    119. The theatre was full …

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    120. Vashti was not good, I was told;

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    121. And Dr. John? Reader, I see him yet …

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    122. Where is Harriet? I wish Harriet …'

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    123. Chapter 24: M. De Bassompierre

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    124. I suppose animals kept in cages …

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    125. Soured and listless, Miss Fanshawe was …

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    126. I opened the billet: by this time …

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    127. The keen, still cold of the morning …

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    128. Ah! And you remember the old time …'

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    129. Chapter 25: The Little Countess

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    130. Your ladyship wishes for the tankard?'

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    131. Next day, when we were all assembled …

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    132. His fair little daughter did not take …

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    133. Mrs. Bretton asked Mr. Home …

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    134. Paulina Mary cast once or twice …

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    135. Chapter 26: A Burial

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    136. Welcome I endeavoured to make it.

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    137. Well, I cleared away the ivy …

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    138. As to Mary de Bassompierre …

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    139. The light in which M. de Bassompierre …

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    140. The young Countess was a little proud …

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    141. Chapter 27: The Hotel Crecy

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    142. Do - do tell me who you are?'

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    143. I do not think his audience …

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    144. Another listener and observer there was …

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    145. He had assumed a bantering air …

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    146. I quite well recall it.'

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    147. Having sought my shawl …

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    148. Chapter 28: The Watchguard

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    149. Not being quite tall enough …

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    150. Still gently railing at me …

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    151. Vous ne voulez pas …'

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    152. I would have looked up at him …

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    153. Chapter 29: Monsieur's Fete

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    154. Breakfast being over and mass attended …

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    155. Monsieur,' said Mademoiselle St. Pierre.

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    156. The class was struck of a heap.

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    157. But now at last I had him:

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    158. You will be like me, Monsieur.'

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    159. Chapter 30: M. Paul

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    160. When the pang and peril …

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    161. Once, upon his preferring …

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    162. Women of intellect' was his next theme:

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    163. I knew what the result of such …

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    164. Chapter 31: The Dryad

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    165. Courage, Lucy Snowe!'

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    166. This idea of 'keeping down' …

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    167. It pleased me when you took them …'

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    168. Why do you shrink and speak so faintly?'

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    169. Chapter 32: The First Letter

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    170. Papa had letters from him once …'

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    171. It is true I little respect women …'

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    172. Life,' she went on …

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    173. Chapter 33: M. Paul Keeps His Promise

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    174. And now we were in the country …

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    175. Mindful always of his religion …

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    176. When hot noon arrived …

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    177. Chapter 34: Malevola

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    178. The expression of her face …

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    179. Down washed the rain …

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    180. The hero of his tale …

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    181. I, daughter, am Pere Silas.'

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    182. Chapter 35: Fraternity

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    183. Having partially collected …

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    184. They would not yet let me go …

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    185. I am judged,' said he.

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    186. True; I remember now.'

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    187. Chapter 36: The Apple of Discord

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    188. The orange-trees, and several plants …

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    189. I opened it. What was it?

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    190. Through the glass door …

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    191. (After a pause:) 'Allons donc!'

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    192. I found that Pere Silas …

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    193. It will not be. God is not with Rome …

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    194. Chapter 37: Sunshine

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    195. Lucy, what do you mean?' said she

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    196. I made no answer.

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    197. Ah, sir! did you observe her.

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    198. She shuddered.

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    199. He turned, and waited till I said 'Amen!'

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    200. Not long after, perhaps a fortnight …

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    201. Chapter 38: Cloud

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    202. That girl would have had a right to hate me …

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    203. What quiet lessons I had

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    204. Proceed,' said Madame;

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    205. All that evening I waited …

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    206. This was the sole flash-eliciting …

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    207. The drug wrought.

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    208. Quiet Rue Fossette!

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    209. While looking up at the image …

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    210. Strange to say, this man knew me …

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    211. Three fine tall trees growing close …

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    212. Chapter 39: Old and New Acquaintance

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    213. Justine Marie!' What was this?

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    214. We have looked at the city belle …

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    215. Still, hint and raillery flew thick …

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    216. These oil-twinkling streets are very still …

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    217. Chapter 40: The Happy Pair

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    218. Do you begin to comprehend …'

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    219. In winding up Mistress Fanshawe's memoirs …

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    220. Chapter 41: Faubourg Clotilde

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    221. Paul, Paul!' said a woman's hurried voice …

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    222. The route he took was by the boulevards …

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    223. Opening an inner door …

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    224. The trouble!' I cried …

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    225. This was true enough:

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    226. I spoke. All escaped from my lips.

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    227. Chapter 42: Finis

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    228. And now the three years are past …

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Now considered by many to be Charlotte Bronte's best novel, though unlikely to eclipse Jane Eyre in fame and popularity, Villette is largely concerned with the experiences of Lucy Snowe in a girl's boarding school in a fictionalized Belgium. Lucy flees unhappiness in England only to find more abroad. Her love for Dr John unrequited, she slowly realizes that a deeper attachment is growing between her and her irascible domineering mentor and colleague, M. Paul Emanuel.