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1  Bessie answered that I was doing very well.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III
2  Bessie invited him to walk into the breakfast-room, and led the way out.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III
3  Steps came running along the outer passage; the key turned, Bessie and Abbot entered.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER II
4  Bessie now returned; at the same moment the carriage was heard rolling up the gravel-walk.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III
5  It was Bessie, I knew well enough; but I did not stir; her light step came tripping down the path.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV
6  Bessie would rather have stayed, but she was obliged to go, because punctuality at meals was rigidly enforced at Gateshead Hall.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III
7  I would have asked who wanted me: I would have demanded if Mrs. Reed was there; but Bessie was already gone, and had closed the nursery-door upon me.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV
8  Aid was near him: Eliza and Georgiana had run for Mrs. Reed, who was gone upstairs: she now came upon the scene, followed by Bessie and her maid Abbot.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I
9  I resisted all the way: a new thing for me, and a circumstance which greatly strengthened the bad opinion Bessie and Miss Abbot were disposed to entertain of me.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER II
10  It was night: a candle burnt on the table; Bessie stood at the bed-foot with a basin in her hand, and a gentleman sat in a chair near my pillow, leaning over me.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III
11  Bessie and Abbot having retreated, Mrs. Reed, impatient of my now frantic anguish and wild sobs, abruptly thrust me back and locked me in, without farther parley.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER II
12  Abbot, too, was sewing in another room, and Bessie, as she moved hither and thither, putting away toys and arranging drawers, addressed to me every now and then a word of unwonted kindness.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III
13  Bessie Lee must, I think, have been a girl of good natural capacity, for she was smart in all she did, and had a remarkable knack of narrative; so, at least, I judge from the impression made on me by her nursery tales.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV
14  The remains of my breakfast of bread and milk stood on the table, and having crumbled a morsel of roll, I was tugging at the sash to put out the crumbs on the window-sill, when Bessie came running upstairs into the nursery.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV
15  I was glad of it: I never liked long walks, especially on chilly afternoons: dreadful to me was the coming home in the raw twilight, with nipped fingers and toes, and a heart saddened by the chidings of Bessie, the nurse, and humbled by the consciousness of my physical inferiority to Eliza, John, and Georgiana Reed.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I
16  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.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV
17  My seat, to which Bessie and the bitter Miss Abbot had left me riveted, was a low ottoman near the marble chimney-piece; the bed rose before me; to my right hand there was the high, dark wardrobe, with subdued, broken reflections varying the gloss of its panels; to my left were the muffled windows; a great looking-glass between them repeated the vacant majesty of the bed and room.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER II
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