Sunday, January 13, 2013

Courtship in 1812

"I do, indeed, sometimes think of you, but I will not say how often, lest I raise your vanity" -- a certain lady wisely wrote to her suitor. I admire her circumspection.

(From this wonderful book, The Brontes: Wild Genius on the Moors: The Story of a Literary Family, which almost does not have enough colons in its title.)