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Updated: June 28, 2025
All I can say is, first, that Miss Nussey acknowledged to me the truth of the statement that she had served as a model for Caroline Helstone, just as Emily Bronte served as a model for Shirley herself; and secondly, that it was impossible for anyone to know Miss Nussey in those days without seeing how vivid and truthful Charlotte's portrait of her was.
'And flowering all the year round, especially at Christmas make your picture complete, said he. 'No, replied Margaret, somewhat annoyed, 'I am not making a picture. I am trying to describe Helstone as it really is. You should not have said that. 'I am penitent, he answered. 'Only it really sounded like a village in a tale rather than in real life. 'And so it is, replied Margaret, eagerly.
The idea of stately simplicity accords well with your character. She cut his speech rather short by saying: 'It is natural for me to think of Helstone church, and the walk to it, rather than of driving up to a London church in the middle of a paved street. 'Tell me about Helstone. You have never described it to me.
If it has not Jane Eyre's commanding passion, it has a vaster sweep. It was literally the first attempt in literature to give to woman her right place in the world. From first to last there is not a page or a line in it that justifies the malignant criticism of Mrs. Oliphant. Caroline Helstone does not justify it.
At Helstone unpunctuality at meal-times was a great fault in her mother's eyes; but now this, as well as many other little irregularities, seemed to have lost their power of irritation, and Margaret almost longed for the old complainings. 'Have you met with a servant, dear? 'No, mamma; that Anne Buckley would never have done. 'Suppose I try, said Mr. Hale.
Margaret had imagined nothing less than that some of the preferments which her mother so much desired had befallen her father at last something that would force him to leave beautiful, beloved Helstone, and perhaps compel him to go and live in some of the stately and silent Closes which Margaret had seen from time to time in cathedral towns.
Released from the business yoke, Robert Moore was, if not lively himself, a willing spectator of the liveliness of Caroline Helstone, his cousin, a complacent listener to her talk, a ready respondent to her questions. Sometimes he was better than this almost animated, quite gentle and friendly. The drawback was that by the next morning he was frozen up again.
It is years since I have been at Helstone but I'll answer for it, it is standing there yet every stick and every stone as it has done for the last century, while Milton! I go there every four or five years and I was born there yet I do assure you, I often lose my way aye, among the very piles of warehouses that are built upon my father's orchard. Do we part here?
But as my mother has not murdered my father, and afterwards married my uncle, I shouldn't know what to think about, unless it were balancing the chances of our having a well-cooked dinner or not. What do you think? 'I am in good hopes. She used to be considered a famous cook as far as Helstone opinion went. 'But have you considered the distraction of mind produced by all this haymaking?
He was glad to find that the present relationship between Margaret and himself, of client and legal adviser, was gradually superseding the recollection of that unlucky, mismanaged day at Helstone. He had thus unusual opportunities of intimate intercourse with her, besides those that arose from the connection between the families.
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