Charlotte Brontë quote: Self abandoned, relaxed and effortless, I seemed to have laid me down in the dried-up bed of a great river; ...

Self abandoned, relaxed and effortless, I seemed to have laid me down in the dried-up bed of a great river; I heard a flood loosened in remote mountains, I felt the torrent come; to rise I had no will, to flee I ...

~ Charlotte Brontë ~

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