Charlotte Brontë
Image Attribution: Painted by Evert A. Duyckinck, based on a drawing by George Richmond (Public domain)
Image Attribution: Painted by Evert A. Duyckinck, based on a drawing by George Richmond (Public domain)
It was the fifteenth of January, about nine o’clock in the morning: Bessie was gone down to breakfast; my cousins had not yet been summoned to their mama; Eliza was putting on her bonnet and warm garden-coat to go and feed her poultry, an occupation of which she was fond: and not less so of selling the eggs to the housekeeper and hoarding up the money she thus obtained.
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