“When a lady condescends to apologize, there is no keeping one’s anger.”

—  Anne Brontë , book The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. V : The Studio; Gilbert Markham

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British novelist and poet 1820–1849

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