Excerpt from The Complete Works of Charlotte Brontë and Her Sisters: The Professor; Emma; Poems; Poems of Emily and Anne Brontë; Life of Charlotte Brontë Such being the case, the reader will comprehend that, to have reached him in the form of a printed book, this brief narrative must have gone through some struggles, which indeed it has. And after all, its worst struggle and strongest ordeal is yet to come; but it takes comfort, subdues fear, leans on the staff of a moderate expectation, and mutters under its breath, while lifting its eye to that of the public.