Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 157, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1918 — Charlotte Bronte and M. Heger. [ARTICLE]

Charlotte Bronte and M. Heger.

The discovery of four new Bronte letters, reopening the question of Charlotte’s feelings for her Belgian schoolmaster, makes it Interesting to note that her first impressione of M. Heger were far from favorable. Mrs. Gaskell in her “Life of Charlotte Bronte" quotes the letter written after her arrival in Brussels: “He is professor of rhetoric, a man of power as to mind, but very choleric and Irritable in temperament. ... A little black being, with a face that varies in expression. Sometimes be borrows the lineaments of an insane tomcat, sometimes those of a delirious hyena; occasionally, but very seldom, he discards these perilous attractions and assumes an air not above one hundred degrees removed from mild and gentlemanlike.’’