
“ Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy: its after-flavour, metallic and corroding, gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned. ”
Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre (16 October 1847). copy citation
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16 October 1847
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