num_pages: 460
description: When I was a girl I went to Bretton about twice a year, and well I liked the visit. The house and its inmates specially suited me. The large peaceful rooms, the well-arranged furniture, the clear wide windows, the balcony outside, looking down on a fine antique street, where Sundays and holidays seemed always to abide -- so quiet was its atmosphere, so clean its pavement -- these things pleased me well. One child in a household of grown people is usually made very much of, and in a quiet way I was a good deal taken notice of by Mrs. Bretton, who had been left a widow, with one son, before I knew her; her husband, a physician, having died while she was yet a young and handsome woman. . . .
language: English
title: Villette
titlecomplete: Villette
characters: Mrs. Louisa Lucy Bretton, Dr. John Graham Bretton, Paulina Mary Home, Madame Modeste Maria Beck, Lucy Snowe, M. Paul Carl David Emanuel, Ginevra Laura Fanshawe
genres: Fiction, 19th Century, Classics, Gothic, British Literature, Historical Fiction, Romance, Literature, Victorian, Novels
ratings_count: 70972
publisher: Wildside Pr