“"Oh, Richard!" exclaimed she, on one occasion, "if you would but dismiss such gloomy subjects from your mind, you would live as long as any of us; at least you would live to see the girls married, and yourself a happy grandfather, with a canty old dame for your companion."”

—  Anne Brontë , book Agnes Grey

Source: Agnes Grey (1847), Ch. VI : The Parsonage Again

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