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I am bound to avow that she (Emily Bronte) had scarcely more practical knowledge of the peasantry amongst whom she lived than a nun has of the country-people that pass her convent gates . . . intercourse with them she never sought, nor, with a few exceptions, ever experienced; and yet she knew them, knew their ways, their language, their family histories; she could hear of them with interest, and talk of them with detail, minute, graphic and accurate; but with them she rarely exchanged a word. Charlotte Bronte
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