even when they all sit down to a meal together. Perhaps it is the house itself, which Bronte describes as having "grotesque carving," and stunted trees growing around it, lashed by the wind. The house sounds as bleak as the inhabitants that live there. "They could not every day sit so grim and taciturn; and it was impossible, however ill-tempered they might be, that the universal scowl they wore was t
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