1 And I came out immediately, for I trembled at the idea of being dragged forth by the said Jack.
2 I hurried on my frock and a shawl; I withdrew the bolt and opened the door with a trembling hand.
3 I now stood in the empty hall; before me was the breakfast-room door, and I stopped, intimidated and trembling.
4 It kept up a slow fire of indignation and a trembling trouble of grief, which harassed and crushed me altogether.
5 I felt as if an awful charm was framing round and gathering over me: I trembled to hear some fatal word spoken which would at once declare and rivet the spell.
6 Then I rose up on my curtainless bed, trembling and quivering; and then the still, dark night witnessed the convulsion of despair, and heard the burst of passion.
7 In spite of his Christian stoicism, when she went up and addressed him, and smiled gaily, encouragingly, even fondly in his face, his hand would tremble and his eye burn.
8 The light that long ago had struck me into syncope, recalled in this vision, seemed glidingly to mount the wall, and tremblingly to pause in the centre of the obscured ceiling.
9 It trembled for Mr. Rochester and his doom; it bemoaned him with bitter pity; it demanded him with ceaseless longing; and, impotent as a bird with both wings broken, it still quivered its shattered pinions in vain attempts to seek him.