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“ I am no bird, and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will, which I now exert to leave you.”

“ Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! I have as much soul as you- and fool as much heart!

“I sometimes regretted that I was not handsome “

“ I could not see how poor people had the means of being kind; and then to speak like them, to adopt their manners, to be uneducated, to grow up like one of the poor women I saw sometimes nursing their children or wash the clothes at the cottage doors of the village of Gateshead: no, I was not heroic enough to purchase liberty at the price of caste”

“How could she divine the morbid suffering to which I was a prey?”

“My racked nerves were now in such a state that no calm could soothe, and no pleasure excite them agreeably”