They would have some time of their own, in which to try again and yet again at that literary career, which, in spite of all baffling difficulties, was never quite set aside as an ultimate object; but far the strongest motive with Charlotte was the conviction that Anne's health was so delicate that it required a degree of tending which none but her sister could give.

Thus she wrote during those midsummer holidays.
"Haworth, July 18th, 1841.
"We waited long and anxiously for you, on the Thursday that you promised to come.

I quite wearied my eyes with watching from the window, eye-glass in hand, and sometimes spectacles on nose.

However, you are not to blame.

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