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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte: misadventure, apparently without the slightest intention of keeping
your promise?'
'Of course! what else could I do? You would not have had me - but
I see, Miss Grey, you're not in a good temper. Here's Matilda;
I'll see what she and mamma have to say about it.'
She left me, offended at my want of sympathy, and thinking, no
doubt, that I envied her. I did not - at least, I firmly believed
I did not. I was sorry for her; I was amazed, disgusted at her
heartless vanity; I wondered why so much beauty should be given to
those who made so bad a use of it, and denied to some who would
make it a benefit to both themselves and others.
Agnes Grey |
