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Quotes from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
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1 This book I had again and again perused with delight.
2 He now resumed the book with which he had been occupied before tea.
3 I retired to a window-seat, and taking a book from a table near, endeavoured to read.
4 Miss Ingram took a book, leant back in her chair, and so declined further conversation.
5 Four tall girls arose from different tables, and going round, gathered the books and removed them.
6 Three times a day she studied a little book, which I found, on inspection, was a Common Prayer Book.
7 I closed the book, which I dared no longer peruse, and put it on the table, beside the untasted tart.
8 At intervals, while turning over the leaves of my book, I studied the aspect of that winter afternoon.
9 ; which interest she exacted every quarter, keeping her accounts in a little book with anxious accuracy.
10 She closed the door, leaving me solus with Mr. St. John, who sat opposite, a book or newspaper in his hand.
11 Mr. Rivers now closed his book, approached the table, and, as he took a seat, fixed his blue pictorial-looking eyes full on me.
12 She shut her book and slowly looked up; her hat-brim partially shaded her face, yet I could see, as she raised it, that it was a strange one.
13 She returned; with her own hands cleared her knitting apparatus and a book or two from the table, to make room for the tray which Leah now brought, and then herself handed me the refreshments.
14 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.
15 Jumping over forms, and creeping under tables, I made my way to one of the fire-places; there, kneeling by the high wire fender, I found Burns, absorbed, silent, abstracted from all round her by the companionship of a book, which she read by the dim glare of the embers.
16 I did so, not at first aware what was his intention; but when I saw him lift and poise the book and stand in act to hurl it, I instinctively started aside with a cry of alarm: not soon enough, however; the volume was flung, it hit me, and I fell, striking my head against the door and cutting it.
17 An extinguished candle stood on the table; she was bending over the fire, and seemed reading in a little black book, like a prayer-book, by the light of the blaze: she muttered the words to herself, as most old women do, while she read; she did not desist immediately on my entrance: it appeared she wished to finish a paragraph.
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