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1  If they did not love me, in fact, as little did I love them.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER II
2  For me, the watches of that long night passed in ghastly wakefulness; strained by dread: such dread as children only can feel.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III
3  I was a precocious actress in her eyes; she sincerely looked on me as a compound of virulent passions, mean spirit, and dangerous duplicity.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER II
4  The next thing I remember is, waking up with a feeling as if I had had a frightful nightmare, and seeing before me a terrible red glare, crossed with thick black bars.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III
5  Scarcely less prominent was an ample cushioned easy-chair near the head of the bed, also white, with a footstool before it; and looking, as I thought, like a pale throne.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER II
6  I say scarcely voluntary, for it seemed as if my tongue pronounced words without my will consenting to their utterance: something spoke out of me over which I had no control.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV
7  I heard the rain still beating continuously on the staircase window, and the wind howling in the grove behind the hall; I grew by degrees cold as a stone, and then my courage sank.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER II
8  I heard voices, too, speaking with a hollow sound, and as if muffled by a rush of wind or water: agitation, uncertainty, and an all-predominating sense of terror confused my faculties.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III
9  Abbot, too, was sewing in another room, and Bessie, as she moved hither and thither, putting away toys and arranging drawers, addressed to me every now and then a word of unwonted kindness.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III
10  Fearful, however, of losing this first and only opportunity of relieving my grief by imparting it, I, after a disturbed pause, contrived to frame a meagre, though, as far as it went, true response.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III
11  She boasted of beautiful paintings of landscapes and flowers by them executed; of songs they could sing and pieces they could play, of purses they could net, of French books they could translate; till my spirit was moved to emulation as I listened.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III
12  I had indeed levelled at that prominent feature as hard a blow as my knuckles could inflict; and when I saw that either that or my look daunted him, I had the greatest inclination to follow up my advantage to purpose; but he was already with his mama.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV
13  This state of things should have been to me a paradise of peace, accustomed as I was to a life of ceaseless reprimand and thankless fagging; but, in fact, my racked nerves were now in such a state that no calm could soothe, and no pleasure excite them agreeably.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III
14  Habitually obedient to John, I came up to his chair: he spent some three minutes in thrusting out his tongue at me as far as he could without damaging the roots: I knew he would soon strike, and while dreading the blow, I mused on the disgusting and ugly appearance of him who would presently deal it.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I
15  Poverty looks grim to grown people; still more so to children: they have not much idea of industrious, working, respectable poverty; they think of the word only as connected with ragged clothes, scanty food, fireless grates, rude manners, and debasing vices: poverty for me was synonymous with degradation.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III
16  I can now conjecture readily that this streak of light was, in all likelihood, a gleam from a lantern carried by some one across the lawn: but then, prepared as my mind was for horror, shaken as my nerves were by agitation, I thought the swift darting beam was a herald of some coming vision from another world.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER II
17  Having given some further directions, and intimates that he should call again the next day, he departed; to my grief: I felt so sheltered and befriended while he sat in the chair near my pillow; and as he closed the door after him, all the room darkened and my heart again sank: inexpressible sadness weighed it down.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III
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