#to JGB she is a shadow but to PCDE she is a corporeal entity with a NOSE and a VOICE and then suddenly his hands are up in her FACE
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'I inhabit a den, miss -- a cavern, where you would not put your dainty nose. As for my "establishment of servants"' (mimicking my voice) 'they number ten; les voila.'
#villette#charlotte bronte#new type of intimacy just dropped: mocking your interlocutor's daintiness of nose and then spreading#close under their eyes#your ten fingers#all while mimicking their voice#like#to our poor touch-starved Victorian heroine I think this must have felt like a gut punch#to JGB she is a shadow but to PCDE she is a corporeal entity with a NOSE and a VOICE and then suddenly his hands are up in her FACE#this must have felt cataclysmic#it sends me that in this scene he's feeling all prickly because he thinks she is disdainful of his relative poverty#whereas all signs point to the fact that she is actually getting turned on#she is flirting with him like someone poking at a live grenade with a stick#my art
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