Charlotte Bronte: "Di tengah kekhawatiran akan solilokui penghukuman d...

"Di tengah kekhawatiran akan solilokui penghukuman diri, sikapnya tampak muram, mungkin dingin, bagi saya dan ibunya. Namun tidak ada perasaan buruk, tidak ada kebencian, tidak ada dendam, tidak ada keremangan di wajahnya, cantik dengan kecantikan terbaik seorang pria, bahkan dalam depresi. Ketika aku meletakkan kursinya di meja, yang segera kulakukan, mengantisipasi pelayan itu, dan ketika aku menyerahkan tehnya, yang kulakukan dengan hati-hati, dia berkata: "Terima kasih, Lucy," dengan nada ramah suaranya yang menyenangkan dan menyenangkan seperti yang selalu didengar telingaku."

--- Charlotte Bronte

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Amid the worry of a self- condemnatory soliloquy, his demeanour seemed grave, perhaps cold, both to me and his mother. And yet there was no bad feeling, no malice, no rancour, no littleness in his countenance, beautiful with a man's best beauty, even in its depression. When I placed his chair at the table, which I hastened to do, anticipating the servant, and when I handed him his tea, which I did with trembling care, he said: "Thank you, Lucy," in as kindly a tone of his full pleasant voice as ever my ear welcomed.