“If you mean Mr. Weston to be one of your victims," said I, with affected indifference, "you will have to make such overtures yourself that you will find it difficult to draw back when he asks you to fulfil the expectations you have raised.”

— Anne Brontë , book Agnes Grey

Source: Agnes Grey (1847), Ch. XVI : The Substitution

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British novelist and poet 1820–1849

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