Having now no further business I immediately quitted the valley and returned home…
Being very tired and sleepy I retired to bed. As I have no doubt my reader is by this time in much the same state, I bid him good-bye.
Charlotte Brontë,
December 18th, 1830.
From Visits in Verreopolis, vol. II. chap. ii., by the Honourable Charles Albert Florian, Lord Wellesley, aged ten years. Published by Sergeant Bud. The tale is related by, and is a passage from the early life of, Captain Bud, the father of the fictitious publisher.—C. W. H.
LOVE AND JEALOUSY
No title was given by Charlotte Brontë to this story, which was probably intended as a sequel to the short drama printed on pp. 95-104.
The original manuscript has been divided into two parts, one sheet of four pages having been removed and certain words erased (see footnotes on pages 126 and 129), apparently in an attempt to make it appear as two separate and complete manuscripts. The missing words have been obtained from a transcript made before the manuscript was mutilated.
C. W. H.
LOVE AND JEALOUSY