“If you would really study my pleasure, mother, you must consider your own comfort and convenience a little more than you do.”

—  Anne Brontë, book The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. VI : Progression; Gilbert to Mrs. Markham

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