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Quotes from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
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1 I shall expect your clear decision when I return this day fortnight.
2 Disappointed in the expectation of a customer, she coolly acceded to my request.
3 The party were expected to arrive on Thursday afternoon, in time for dinner at six.
4 Again Sam vanished; and mystery, animation, expectation rose to full flow once more.
5 Helen heard me patiently to the end: I expected she would then make a remark, but she said nothing.
6 While I paced softly on, the last sound I expected to hear in so still a region, a laugh, struck my ear.
7 I shall send Miss Temple notice that she is to expect a new girl, so that there will be no difficulty about receiving her.
8 I cannot precisely define what they expected, but it was something pleasant: not perhaps that day or that month, but at an indefinite future period.
9 I expected she would show signs of great distress and shame; but to my surprise she neither wept nor blushed: composed, though grave, she stood, the central mark of all eyes.
10 Much enjoyment I do not expect in the life opening before me: yet it will, doubtless, if I regulate my mind, and exert my powers as I ought, yield me enough to live on from day to day.
11 I knew, by instinct, how the matter stood, before St. John had said another word; but I cannot expect the reader to have the same intuitive perception, so I must repeat his explanation.
12 I almost expected a rebuff for this hardly well-timed question, but, on the contrary, waking out of his scowling abstraction, he turned his eyes towards me, and the shade seemed to clear off his brow.
13 I had indeed made my proposal from the idea that he wished and would ask me to be his wife: an expectation, not the less certain because unexpressed, had buoyed me up, that he would claim me at once as his own.
14 During the early part of the morning, I momentarily expected his coming; he was not in the frequent habit of entering the schoolroom, but he did step in for a few minutes sometimes, and I had the impression that he was sure to visit it that day.
15 He put the question rather hurriedly; he seemed half to expect an indignant, or at least a disdainful rejection of the offer: not knowing all my thoughts and feelings, though guessing some, he could not tell in what light the lot would appear to me.
16 Farther off were hills: not so lofty as those round Lowood, nor so craggy, nor so like barriers of separation from the living world; but yet quiet and lonely hills enough, and seeming to embrace Thornfield with a seclusion I had not expected to find existent so near the stirring locality of Millcote.
17 I really did not expect any Grace to answer; for the laugh was as tragic, as preternatural a laugh as any I ever heard; and, but that it was high noon, and that no circumstance of ghostliness accompanied the curious cachinnation; but that neither scene nor season favoured fear, I should have been superstitiously afraid.
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