[71] Mrs. Humphry Ward in her "Introductions" to the Haworth Edition of the Brontë novels instanced this passage as showing Emily Brontë's extravagant love for the moors, inferring she preferred the heath to heaven. But Mrs. Ward in these same "Introductions" even argued that _Wuthering Heights_ and _Jane Eyre_ were dissimilar in characterization and style. Catherine's reference herewith in _Wuthering Heights_, to a "subliminal" existence in a lover and to the notion that the absence or loss of such a love (and hence, limiting of the bounds of existence,) would make the universe a blank, having no sympathy or relation--a stranger, is at one with Charlotte Brontë's further words in her poem, "Frances":-- "Unloved--I love; unwept--I weep; . . . . . . . . . . . . Vain is this anguish--fixed and deep; . . . . . . . . . . . . "For me the universe is dumb, Stone-deaf, and blank, and wholly blind; Life I must bound, existence sum In the strait limits of one mind; "That mind my own. Oh! narrow cell; Dark--imageless--a living tomb!" [72] _Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle._ [73] Mentor's advice to Telemachus when tempted and miserable on the island of Calypso is that given by the spirit of Jane Eyre's mother--"Flee temptation!" "Virtue," argues Mentor, "now calls you back to your country ... and forbids you to give up your heart to an unworthy passion.... Fly, fly, ... for love is conquered only by flight ... in retreat without deliberation, and ... looking back." "Neither Calypso nor Eucharis cared to fascinate Mentor" (_Shirley_, Chapter XXVII.). Evidently M. Sue knew Charlotte Brontë had read this book at Brussels, for he makes play upon it in "Lagrange's Manuscript," wherein "Télémaque" is substituted for "Rasselas" in the equivalent scene in _Jane Eyre_. [74] See chapter on the Yorkshire element in Charlotte Brontë's heroes. [75] "Religion called----Angels beckoned!----" [76] See my reference to Catherine of _Wuthering Heights_ and Caroline of _Shirley_, and their crying aloud when ill and delirious for "a way" to the absent lover, pp. 147-8. [77] See the reproach of the dying Catherine to Heathcliffe I quote in the next chapter. See also Crimsworth's words in the beginning of Chapter XIX. of _The Professor_. [78] See close of Chapter XXIV. of _Jane Eyre_. [79] See my footnote on "the trodden way" on p. 136. [80] See my reference to "the barriers" in "Apostasy." [81] "I called myself your brother," says M. Paul to Lucy Snowe, the originals of whom were M. Héger and Charlotte Brontë. "... I know I think of you--I feel I wish you well--but I must check myself; you are to be feared. My best friends point out danger and whisper caution."--_Villette_, Chap. xxxvi. [82] Mr. Angus Mackay, in _The Brontës: Fact and Fiction_, identifies Charlotte Brontë as the original of "Frances" of Charlotte's poem. [83] _Charlotte Brontë and Her Sisters_, pp. 181-3.