beautiful understatement; a counterpoint between them that seems the most exquisite psychological insight into its characters: striking phrases from a book wholly striking for its passion and violence of action, and the more realistically human for its in
The spectre showed a spectre’s ordinary caprice.
– Emily Brontë,
Wuthering Heights
, first published 1847, a year before the death of its author, aged 30, although it appeared under the pseudonym of Ellis Bell, Penguin Books, Australia, 2009, p. 33
A nothing vexed him, and suspected slights of his authority