Notes to Chapter Fourteen 7. EJB, 'Maiere. Le palais de la Morr', 18 Oct. 1842: MS BS 166 pp7-8, BPM, [BST.64285; translation p.284]. The corrections and under lining are by M. Heger: 'j'ai une amie devant laquelle route cette assemblee sera forcee a succomber; elle se nomme la Civilization: en quelques annees elle viendra habiter cette terre avec nous et chaque siecle augmentira son pouvoir - et la fin elle detournera l'Ambition de votre service; elle jecera ~ la colere le frein de la loi; elle arrachera les armes des mains du Fanatisme; elle [chassera: changed by M H to: confinera] la Famine parmi les sauvages: moi seule j'agrandirai et lleurirai sous son regne' 28. ECG, Li fe, pa57comments on how often Char lotte chose Old Testament scenes and charac ters to write about. Ellen Nussey was deeply upset by accusations ofCharlotte's lack ofpiety: see, for example, EN, Reminiscences, BSTa:ro:58 9. 29. Prospectus, 'Maison d'education pour les jeuncs Demoiselles sous la direction de Madame Heger-Parent', [1842]: MS BS x, H, BPM, [facsimile in Chadwick, opp. p.190]; ECG, Life, p.150, quoting a French lady resident in Brussels. 30. Ibid., p.157. Monsieur Heger said, 'Elle ecait nourrie de la Bible.' 1. CB, 'Sacrifice d'une veuve Indienne', 17 April 1842: MS BS 1, BPM. The subject, though probably dictated by Charlotte's source, was one which had given rise co much anguished cor respondence from Indian missionaries to Evan gelical magazines, including The Cottage Magazine, so Charlotte would have been well briefed on the matter. See also CB, 'La jeune fille malade', 18 April 1842: MS in Parrish Colin, Princeton, [cranslacion, BST:12:62:98-<)]; CB, 'Le Nid', 30 April 1842: MS in Berg, (translation, BST46.83215 14]. 32. Constantin Heger, 'Conseil', at end ofCB, 'Le Nid', 3o April 1842: MS p.4, Berg, [translation, BS Tu68213 14]. 'Conseil - quelle importance fauc-il donner aux details, dans le developpemt d'un sujet? - Sacrifer impitoyablemt tout ce qui ne contribue pas ii la clarte, a la vraisemblance et a l'elfec. accuser fortemenc tout ce qui donne du relief ii la pensee principale, que l'impression soic alors coloree, pittoresque: II suffic que le reste soit a sa place, mais dans la demi-teinte. C'en a qui donne au style, comme ii la peinrure, l'unite, la perspective, et l'effet. Liser la xiv. har monie de Lamartine: L'infini, nous l'analyserons ensemble, du point de vue des details. 4 Mai C Heger'. 33. Constantin Heger, marginal and ocher anno tations on CB, 'Imitation Portrait de Pierre l'Hermite', 3 July 1842: MS EL (B91, Rylands, (ECG, life, PP-'54-?]- 34. Charlotte's poetic style certainly reflected her verbose prose style, but this may not necessarily be true of Emily. It should be pointed out, for instance, that Emily's diary papers are just as uncontrolled as Charlotte's prose, flitting from subject to subject and running on at length. 35. ECG Li f , p151. 36. CB to WSW,s Feb. 1848: MS p3, Pforzheimer, [LL, ii, 189)]. 37. Chadwick, p.225. 38. ECG, Life , p15 . 39. CB to EN, [July 1842]: MS HM 24431 Pp2-3 Huntington, [LrL, i, 266-7]. 4o. Joseph Green, 'The Bronte- Wheelwright Friendship' (1915): Typescript, i, 23, in Bro therton; Chadwick, p.226; ECG, Life, pp.15o 1. Ellen Nussey also commenced on their changed appearance: 'none of the Brontes understood dress with its right and simple advantages cill Charlotte and Emily had been in Brussels; they then began to perceive che elegance of a well fitting garment made with simplicity and neat ness <when and> they adapted che better style for themselves it was a manifest improvement': EN, Reminiscences: MS p16,KSC. 4. CB to EN, [July 1842]: MS HM 2443 p2, Huntington, [LrL, i, 267]. Though Monsieur Heger cold Mrs Gaskell (ECG, life, p.1p) he found Emily 'egotistical and exacting compared co Charlotte' and chat she exerted 'a kind of unconscious tyranny' over her elder sister, he evidently grew fond of her. On 13 September 1842 he presented her with a copy ofthe speech he had given at the distribution of prizes at the Athenee Royal on y August, signing it 'A Miss Emily Bro[n ]te temoignage de sincere alfeccion. C Heger Bruxelles 13 Sepcembre 1843': Con stantin Heger, Discours prononces a la Distribution des Prixfaire aux elves de l'Athene Royal de Brus elles (Brussels, Privately Printed, 1843), at Wel lesley. 42. Ibid., p.1. 4 CB, Preface co 'Selections from the Poems of Ellis Bell', 185: MS n.l., [EJB, Wuthm"ngHeights, p.370]. The three poems are EjB, 'In the same place, when Narure wore', 17 May 184 [MS Add 43483 pp53-4, BL], which was the only one completed, and two poems finished at home, 'How do I love on summer nights', 2o Aug. 1842 6 Feb. 1843 [ ibid, pp.8-1o] and 'The evening passes fast away', 23 Oct 1842-6 Feb. 1843 [MS in Law Colin, facsimile in PoemsofEJB & AB, pp.316-17]: see Hatfield, pp.173-81. 44. Joseph Green, 'The Bronte-Wheelwright Friendship', i, 4-5, 10. I have followed Green's spelling of che name though Gerin calls it che Hotel 'Cluysenaar' in CB, p.221 and 'Cluysenaer' in E7B, p.130. 45. Laetitia Wheelwright to C. K. Shorter, Jan. 1896, quoted in Joseph Green, 'The Bronte- Wheelwright Friendship', i, 23 4. 46. Chadwick, p.227. The fact that the Brontes were in the first class oftwelve pupils is recorded in a note by Laetitia Wheelwright in her copy ofMrs Gaskell: seeJoseph Green, 'The Bronte-Wheel wright Friendship', i, 14; EJB, pencil drawing of