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Quotes from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
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1 That woman was no other than Grace Poole.
2 At last I hired Grace Poole from the Grimbsy Retreat.
3 The grace and harmony of beauty are quite wanting in those features.
4 Grace Poole bent over the fire, apparently cooking something in a saucepan.
5 Mr. Rochester stayed a moment behind us, to give some further order to Grace Poole.
6 Mr. Rochester is an amateur of the decided and eccentric: Grace is eccentric at least.
7 A long grace was said and a hymn sung; then a servant brought in some tea for the teachers, and the meal began.
8 I hastened to drive from my mind the hateful notion I had been conceiving respecting Grace Poole; it disgusted me.
9 I once, indeed, overheard part of a dialogue between Leah and one of the charwomen, of which Grace formed the subject.
10 I thought no more of Mrs. Fairfax; I thought no more of Grace Poole, or the laugh: in an instant, I was within the chamber.
11 At last he mastered her arms; Grace Poole gave him a cord, and he pinioned them behind her: with more rope, which was at hand, he bound her to a chair.
12 Miss Ingram, who had now seated herself with proud grace at the piano, spreading out her snowy robes in queenly amplitude, commenced a brilliant prelude; talking meantime.
13 What struggle there was in him between Nature and Grace in this interval, I cannot tell: only singular gleams scintillated in his eyes, and strange shadows passed over his face.
14 Had Grace been young and handsome, I should have been tempted to think that tenderer feelings than prudence or fear influenced Mr. Rochester in her behalf; but, hard-favoured and matronly as she was, the idea could not be admitted.
15 Grace has, on the whole, proved a good keeper; though, owing partly to a fault of her own, of which it appears nothing can cure her, and which is incident to her harassing profession, her vigilance has been more than once lulled and baffled.
16 A reception of finished politeness would probably have confused me: I could not have returned or repaid it by answering grace and elegance on my part; but harsh caprice laid me under no obligation; on the contrary, a decent quiescence, under the freak of manner, gave me the advantage.
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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