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Bronte and Miss Branwell; to be the young and active member in a household of four, whereof three the father, the aunt, and faithful Tabby were past middle age. And Emily, who suffered and drooped more than her sisters when away from Haworth, was the one appointed to remain. Anne was the first to meet with a situation. "April 15th, 1839.
She was still in the midst of her deep sympathy with "Mary," when word came from home that her aunt, Miss Branwell, was ailing was very ill.
A long pause succeeded, which was at last broken by Branwell saying in a lazy manner, 'I don't know what to do. This was echoed by Emily and Anne. "Tabby. 'Wha ya may go t'bed. "Branwell. 'I'd rather do anything than that. "Charlotte. 'Why are you so glum to-night, Tabby? Oh! suppose we had each an island of our own. "Branwell. 'If we had I would choose the Island of Man. "Charlotte.
Wade would certainly not refuse him if he sought admittance, and persisted in visiting the parsonage. Remembering my controversy with Mr. Wade, I discreetly withdrew from the company, and retired to the Black Bull Inn, where I smoked a cigar in the chair in which Branwell Bronte had too often sat.
Charlotte wrote to Southey, and Branwell to Wordsworth, of their ambitions, and Southey replied that "literature cannot be the business of a woman's life, and ought not to be. The more she is engaged in her proper duties the less leisure she will have for it, even as an accomplishment and recreation."
The world accepted her disclaimer. But the trouble began again after Charlotte's death. Emily herself had no legend; but her genius was perpetually the prey of rumours that left her personality untouched. Among the many provoked by Mrs. Francis Grundy said that Branwell told him he had written Wuthering Heights. Mr. Leyland believed Mr. Grundy.
Emily had given up her situation in the Halifax school, at the expiration of six months of arduous trial, on account of her health, which could only be re-established by the bracing moorland air and free life of home. Tabby's illness had preyed on the family resources. I doubt whether Branwell was maintaining himself at this time.
He wrote and sent poems to Wordsworth and Coleridge, who both expressed kind and laudatory opinions, and he frequently contributed verses to the Leeds Mercury. Miss Branwell was unaware of the fermentation of unoccupied talent going on around her.
Branwell has, by some means, contrived to get more money from the old quarter, and has led us a sad life. . . . Papa is harassed day and night; we have little peace, he is always sick; has two or three times fallen down in fits; what will be the ultimate end, God knows. But who is without their drawback, their scourge, their skeleton behind the curtain?
Mary is playing on the piano; Martha is chattering as fast as her little tongue can run; and Branwell is standing before her, laughing at her vivacity." Charlotte grew much stronger in this quiet, happy period at home. She paid occasional visits to her two great friends, and they in return came to Haworth.
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