Sentiment and Small Things.

It’s odd how it’s often the small things that have the greatest impact, especially where matters of sentiment are concerned.

When Jane Eyre founds the village school at the request of St John Rivers, she’s allowed to have a young girl from the town workhouse to do the menial jobs. At the end of the first day she remarks ‘I dismissed my little orphan with an orange for remuneration.’ That got to me more than anything else in the whole book.

I don’t think I need explain why. The part of me that analyses and expounds can have a vacation on this one.