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1  I could not help it: the restlessness was in my nature; it agitated me to pain sometimes.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
2  I could not tell: nothing answered me; I then ordered my brain to find a response, and quickly.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
3  Yet I had not forgotten his faults; indeed, I could not, for he brought them frequently before me.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
4  I could not; though I had been on foot all day, I could not now repose an instant; I was too much excited.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
5  There were days when she was quite silent; but there were others when I could not account for the sounds she made.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
6  Helen regarded me, probably with surprise: I could not now abate my agitation, though I tried hard; I continued to weep aloud.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
7  I caressed him, and he wagged his great tail; but he looked an eerie creature to be alone with, and I could not tell whence he had come.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
8  I could not sleep unless it was folded in my night-gown; and when it lay there safe and warm, I was comparatively happy, believing it to be happy likewise.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
9  My ear, too, felt the flow of currents; in what dales and depths I could not tell: but there were many hills beyond Hay, and doubtless many becks threading their passes.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
10  I heard her with wonder: I could not comprehend this doctrine of endurance; and still less could I understand or sympathise with the forbearance she expressed for her chastiser.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
11  There was I, then, mounted aloft; I, who had said I could not bear the shame of standing on my natural feet in the middle of the room, was now exposed to general view on a pedestal of infamy.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
12  Though I had now extinguished my candle and was laid down in bed, I could not sleep for thinking of his look when he paused in the avenue, and told how his destiny had risen up before him, and dared him to be happy at Thornfield.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
13  I felt the impression of woe as she spoke, but I could not tell whence it came; and when, having done speaking, she breathed a little fast and coughed a short cough, I momentarily forgot my own sorrows to yield to a vague concern for her.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
14  No sooner did I see that his attention was riveted on them, and that I might gaze without being observed, than my eyes were drawn involuntarily to his face; I could not keep their lids under control: they would rise, and the irids would fix on him.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
15  I could not proceed to the schoolroom without passing some of their doors, and running the risk of being surprised with my cargo of victualage; so I stood still at this end, which, being windowless, was dark: quite dark now, for the sun was set and twilight gathering.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
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.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
17  I hardly know where I found the hardihood thus to open a conversation with a stranger; the step was contrary to my nature and habits: but I think her occupation touched a chord of sympathy somewhere; for I too liked reading, though of a frivolous and childish kind; I could not digest or comprehend the serious or substantial.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
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