Great pains were taken to hide chains with flowers Autor: Charlotte Brontë Copy Quote More from Charlotte Brontë “And as I had lifted no petition to Heaven to avert it - as I had neither joined…” “Some time in the afternoon I raised my head, and looking round and seeing the w…” “I hold another creed, which no one ever taught me, and which I seldom mention, …” “In catalepsy and a dead trance, I studiously held the quick of my nature.”