#idk what this is but i read that passage in villette and it got me Thinking

[ravenkings]

but i was not only going to hide a treasure–i meant also to bury a grief.

villette – charlotte brontë | isle of the dead – arnold böcklin (1886) | the juniper tree – the brothers grimm | death and the grave digger – carlos schwabe (1900) | there she is – linda gregg