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Quotes from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
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1 Gentlemen in his station are not accustomed to marry their governesses.
2 First, then, tell me what you have been accustomed to do, and what you can do.
3 I understood her very well, for I had been accustomed to the fluent tongue of Madame Pierrot.
4 Everything appeared very stately and imposing to me; but then I was so little accustomed to grandeur.
5 I showed him the volume on the shelf: he took it down, and withdrawing to his accustomed window recess, he began to read it.
6 He drew over the picture the sheet of thin paper on which I was accustomed to rest my hand in painting, to prevent the cardboard from being sullied.
7 You are aware that my plan in bringing up these girls is, not to accustom them to habits of luxury and indulgence, but to render them hardy, patient, self-denying.
8 As yet I had spoken to no one, nor did anybody seem to take notice of me; I stood lonely enough: but to that feeling of isolation I was accustomed; it did not oppress me much.
9 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.