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Quotes from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
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1 I did not cry so as to be heard, however; I avoided sobbing.
2 They ran to and fro; they crowded together: some sobbed, some stumbled: the confusion was inextricable.
3 St. John called me to his side to read; in attempting to do this my voice failed me: words were lost in sobs.
4 Having stifled my sobs, wiped my eyes, and muttered something about not being very well that morning, I resumed my task, and succeeded in completing it.
5 Now and then, in passing a casement, you glanced out at the thick-falling snow; you listened to the sobbing wind, and again you paced gently on and dreamed.
6 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.
7 In listening, I sobbed convulsively; for I could repress what I endured no longer; I was obliged to yield, and I was shaken from head to foot with acute distress.