[42] For story and other purposes Miss Brontë makes St. John Rivers ask Jane's hand in marriage; and of course as the original of Moor House has been supposed to be at Hathersage in Derbyshire, and it was there the Rev. Henry Nussey lived--Miss Nussey's brother--who had offered to marry Charlotte Brontë, Mrs. Gaskell's Brontë's _Life_ and a following (including even a recent catalogue of the Brontë Museum, wherein reference is made to Mr. Nussey's portrait!) have given it forth that Mr. Nussey was the original of St. John Rivers--notwithstanding that Mr. Nussey was a married man when Charlotte was visiting at Hathersage. That Mr. Nussey and St. John Rivers are wholly dissimilar is contended at length in _Charlotte Brontë and Her Sisters_, pp. 166-170. [43] _The Brontës: Life and Letters._ [44] In the love relations of Shirley Keeldar, however, we must expect to find phases of circumstances associated with Charlotte Brontë herself. Thus Shirley Keeldar is at times Currer Bell. [45] Mr. Rochester's remarks in _Jane Eyre_, Chapter XII., on Jane's drawings would seem to show that though M. Héger, the original of this character, was interested in Charlotte Brontë's gift as an artist (and we know she sent M. Héger a drawing of hers as late as August 1845), he spoke of them in disparagement--a fact that alone argues he was her superior in art, and understood drawing. Indeed, after seeing the various water-colour and other drawings of Charlotte Brontë, some thirty of which, including "a pencil drawing of Louis Philippe of France, drawn by C. Brontë during her stay in Brussels," are numbered with the Brontë relics, I may say we can take it as really the expression of M. Héger concerning her sketches when Mr. Rochester observes of Jane's efforts in drawing:--"You have secured the shadow of your thought, but no more probably. You had not enough of the artist's skill and science to give it being," for this is the truth concerning Charlotte Brontë's efforts of the kind. Nevertheless, I find evidence of a Brussels tradition in the eighteen-fifties that she was clever as a painter, M. Sue giving ability to his Miss Mary in this direction. It is more emphasized in his _feuilleton_ than volume portrayal of this "Institutrice," both of which works we shall see presented phases of Miss Brontë as she was known. Hence we read, "Eh bien! monsieur, trouvez-vous _qu'elle sait un peu dessiner_, MA _Miss Mary_?" The italics, etc., are M. Sue's. [46] _Charlotte Brontë and Her Sisters_, page 181. [47] The James Taylor in the firm of her publishers, who corresponded with Miss Brontë, was not related to this Hunsworth family. [48] See Matthew Yorke, Hiram Yorke's son, a character who has several traits in common with Heathcliffe of _Wuthering Heights_.--_Shirley_, Chap. IX. [49] Mrs. Gaskell's _Life of Charlotte Brontë_, Haworth edition, p. 230.