“I sometimes think she has no feeling at all; and then I go on till she cries — and that satisfies me.”

— Anne Brontë , book The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XXXII : Comparisons: Information Rejected; Ralph to Helen

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