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Quotes from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
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1 I should wish now to protract this moment ad infinitum; but I dare not.
2 I wish, Jane, I were a trifle better adapted to match with her externally.
3 He has again and again explained that it is not himself, but his office he wishes to mate.
4 The wish to have some strength and some vigour returned to me as soon as I was amongst my fellow-beings.
5 I must show her into a room by herself, and then those who wish to consult her must go to her one by one.
6 When I did speak, it was only to express an impetuous wish that I had never been born, or never come to Thornfield.
7 A lover finds his mistress asleep on a mossy bank; he wishes to catch a glimpse of her fair face without waking her.
8 I continued also the wish to be with you, and experienced a strange, regretful consciousness of some barrier dividing us.
9 I had not notified to Mrs. Fairfax the exact day of my return; for I did not wish either car or carriage to meet me at Millcote.
10 I looked on my cherished wishes, yesterday so blooming and glowing; they lay stark, chill, livid corpses that could never revive.
11 I had the pleasure of feeling that my arrangements met their wishes exactly, and that what I had done added a vivid charm to their joyous return home.
12 Yet a chance traveller might pass by; and I wish no eye to see me now: strangers would wonder what I am doing, lingering here at the sign-post, evidently objectless and lost.
13 He loved me so truly, that he knew no reluctance in profiting by my attendance: he felt I loved him so fondly, that to yield that attendance was to indulge my sweetest wishes.
14 Providence has blessed my endeavours to secure a competency; and as I am unmarried and childless, I wish to adopt her during my life, and bequeath her at my death whatever I may have to leave.
15 My heart really warmed to the worthy lady as I heard her talk; and I drew my chair a little nearer to her, and expressed my sincere wish that she might find my company as agreeable as she anticipated.
16 I only entertained the intention for a moment; for, not being insane, the crisis of exquisite and unalloyed despair, which had originated the wish and design of self-destruction, was past in a second.
17 To speak truth, I had not the least wish to go into company, for in company I was very rarely noticed; and if Bessie had but been kind and companionable, I should have deemed it a treat to spend the evenings quietly with her, instead of passing them under the formidable eye of Mrs. Reed, in a room full of ladies and gentlemen.
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