"Who <i>are</i> you, Miss Snowe?"... "Who am I indeed? Perhaps a personage in disguise." - Charlotte Brontë

I envy you your peace of mind, your clean conscience, your unpolluted memory. Little girl, a memory without blot of contamination must be an exquisite treasure-an inexhaustible source of pure refreshment: is it not?

Monsieur, sit down; listen to me. I am not a heathen, I am not hard-hearted, I am not unchristian, I am not dangerous, as they tell you; I would not trouble your faith; you believe in God and Christ and the Bible, and so do I.

You have rather the look of another world. I marvelled where you had got that sort of face.