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, Lucy Snowe, Madame Modeste Maria Beck, Ginevra Laura Fanshawe, Dr. John Graham Bretton, M. Paul Carl David Emanuel, Paulina Mary Home
genres: Classics, British Literature, Gothic, Novels, Romance, Historical Fiction, Literature, 19th Century, Fiction, Victorian
ratings_count: 70970
publisher: Wildside Pr