PITHY QUOTES FROM PAST MASTERS
I don’t like the plan of introducing you, my readers, to so many people, raising so many interests, as it were; but this temporary sojourn of Eleanor Seymour at the school was to bear its fruit, not pleasant fruit for Rose, and you must hear of it, for you would never understand her character so well otherwise: not if I wrote pages and pages.
Varieties of Women's Sensation Fiction, 1855-1890. Volume 3, Gothic Sensationalism. St Martin’s Eve (1866), Vol. I.