More on this book
Community
Kindle Notes & Highlights
“Come, Miss Jane, don’t cry,� said Bessie as she finished. She might as well have said to the fire, “don’t burn!� but how could she divine the morbid suffering to which I was a prey?
no, I was not heroic enough to purchase liberty at the price of caste.
I saw by her look she wished no longer to talk to me, but rather to converse with her own thoughts.
The kind whisper went to my heart like a dagger.