Villette! Villette! wrote George Eliot.It is a still more wonderful book than Jane Eyre. There is something almost preternatural in its power."

Either a bullocke, or a lambe that hath any thing superfluous or lacking in his parts, that mayest thou offer for a free will offring (In modern printings written as freewill offering)

[…] he smeared his ragged rough sleeve over his eyes.

I gently tore the bloodied piece of paper out from her death grip.