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Quotes from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
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1 I wonder when St. John will come home.
2 St. John passed the window reading a letter.
3 St. John looks quiet, Jane; but he hides a fever in his vitals.
4 The two ladies, their brother, Mr. St. John, the old servant, were all gazing at me.
5 A very different sort of mind was hers from that, for instance, of the sisters of St. John.
6 Mr. St. John spoke almost like an automaton: himself only knew the effort it cost him thus to refuse.
7 But when St. John had mused a few moments he recommenced as imperturbably and with as much acumen as ever.
8 She closed the door, leaving me solus with Mr. St. John, who sat opposite, a book or newspaper in his hand.
9 It would probably, as far as St. John was concerned, be a parting for years: it might be a parting for life.
10 I was absorbed in the execution of these nice details, when, after one rapid tap, my door unclosed, admitting St. John Rivers.
11 Mr. St. John came but once: he looked at me, and said my state of lethargy was the result of reaction from excessive and protracted fatigue.
12 St. John said these words as he pronounced his sermons, with a quiet, deep voice; with an unflushed cheek, and a coruscating radiance of glance.
13 Mr. St. John had said nothing to me yet about the employment he had promised to obtain for me; yet it became urgent that I should have a vocation of some kind.
14 Mary and I would have esteemed ourselves rich with a thousand pounds each; and to St. John such a sum would have been valuable, for the good it would have enabled him to do.
15 St. John, no doubt, would have given the world to follow, recall, retain her, when she thus left him; but he would not give one chance of heaven, nor relinquish, for the elysium of her love, one hope of the true, eternal Paradise.
16 Mr. St. John, when he saw me, merely bowed and passed through; the two ladies stopped: Mary, in a few words, kindly and calmly expressed the pleasure she felt in seeing me well enough to be able to come down; Diana took my hand: she shook her head at me.
17 My father always cherished the idea that he would atone for his error by leaving his possessions to us; that letter informs us that he has bequeathed every penny to the other relation, with the exception of thirty guineas, to be divided between St. John, Diana, and Mary Rivers, for the purchase of three mourning rings.
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