Villette

by Charlotte Brontë

Our meal was simple: the chocolate, the rolls, the plate of fresh summer fruit, cherries and strawberries bedded in green leaves formed the whole:

Magnificent-minded, grand-hearted, dear, faulty little man!

Warm, jealous, and haughty, I knew not till now that my nature had such a mood: he gathered me near his heart. I was full of faults; he took them and me all home.

Once — unknown, and unloved, I held him harsh and strange; the low stature, the wiry make, the angles, the darkness, the manner, displeased me. Now, penetrated with his influence, and living by his affection, having his worth by intellect, and his goodness by heart — I preferred him before all humanity.

Her name is used more and more frequently as the book progresses. She grows into a full recognized person