"Oh! ance I lived happily by yon bonny burn-- The warld was in love wi' me; But now I maun sit 'neath the cauld drift and mourn, And curse black Robin-a-Ree! "Then whudder awa' thou bitter biting blast, And sough through the scrunty tree, And smoor me up in the snaw fu' fast And ne'er let the sun me see! "Oh, never melt awa' thou wreath o' snaw, That's sae kind in graving me; But hide me frae the scorn and guffaw O' villains like Robin-a-Ree!" Thus internal evidence proves that the name of _Wuthering Heights_ for the abode of the "deeply feeling, strongly resentful peasant girl," Catherine Earnshaw, was primarily chosen by Charlotte Brontë because of its special appeal to her own mood at a given period, in relation to the ballad of "Puir Mary Lee," and proves that the choice of the name of Snowe for her "cold and altered" autobiographical self in _Villette_ was dictated by its connection therewith. In this light glance at Charlotte Brontë's poem "Mementos," and at the following verses from her "Frances":-- "And when thy opening eyes shall see Mementos, on the chamber wall, Of one who has forgotten thee, Shed not the tear of acrid gall. * * * * * "Vain as the passing gale, my crying; Though lightning-struck,[87] I must live on; I know, at heart, there is no dying Of love and ruined hope alone. * * * * * "The very wildness of my sorrow Tells me I yet have innate force; My track of life has been too narrow, Effort shall trace a broader course." There is an apparent relationship of this last verse with the remarks in Chapter XXV. of _The Professor_, on Hunsden's "Lucia," of whom he says:--"I should ... have liked to marry her, and that I _have_ not done so is a proof that I _could_ not." Lucia's (Miss Brontë's) "faculty" was literature: the physiognomy was obviously an obfuscation. It is significant that Charlotte Brontë again took "Lucia," for the Christian name of Lucia or Lucy Snowe. See my references to Hunsden as a phase of M. Héger. Perceiving, therefore, that Charlotte Brontë had likened herself to the heroine of "Puir Mary Lee," in so far as to be influenced by it to give the title of _Wuthering Heights_ to one of her works, and to take the name of Snowe later for her autobiographical self, we understand why she wrote in _Jane Eyre_, Chapter XXVI.:--