“"But I can't devote myself entirely to a child," said she; "it may die — which is not at all improbable."
"But, with care, many a delicate infant has become a strong man or woman."
"But it may grow so intolerably like its father that I shall hate it."
"That is not likely; it is a little girl, and strongly resembles its mother."”

— Anne Brontë , book Agnes Grey

Source: Agnes Grey (1847), Ch. XXIII : The Park

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British novelist and poet 1820–1849

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