Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XXX : Domestic Scenes; Helen Graham
“I pray every night that I may live after him; because I would rather be miserable than that he should be — that proves I love him better than myself.”
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Emily Brontë
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Wuthering Heights
Source: Wuthering Heights
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