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Quotes from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
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1 Without waiting to hear more, I left the kitchen.
2 The traveller waited and watched for some time, and at last he laughed.
3 That kind master, who could not sleep now, was waiting with impatience for day.
4 The cook here turned to me, saying that Mrs. Fairfax was waiting for me: so I departed.
5 She seems waiting to be sought; but she will not wait too long: she herself selects a mate.
6 When he did come down, it was to attend to business: his agent and some of his tenants were arrived, and waiting to speak with him.
7 Besides, you might have waited till to-morrow, and had me with you: it was mere folly to attempt the interview to-night, and alone.
8 When dressed, I sat a long time by the window looking out over the silent grounds and silvered fields and waiting for I knew not what.
9 He still waited; he held a key in his hand: approaching one of the small, black doors, he put it in the lock; he paused, and addressed me again.
10 , and soon after four I stood at the foot of the sign-post of Whitcross, waiting the arrival of the coach which was to take me to distant Thornfield.
11 Bessie and I conversed about old times an hour longer, and then she was obliged to leave me: I saw her again for a few minutes the next morning at Lowton, while I was waiting for the coach.
12 I looked into a certain corner near, half-expecting to see the slim outline of a once dreaded switch which used to lurk there, waiting to leap out imp-like and lace my quivering palm or shrinking neck.
13 I did not now watch the actors; I no longer waited with interest for the curtain to rise; my attention was absorbed by the spectators; my eyes, erewhile fixed on the arch, were now irresistibly attracted to the semicircle of chairs.
14 I felt glad as the road shortened before me: so glad that I stopped once to ask myself what that joy meant: and to remind reason that it was not to my home I was going, or to a permanent resting-place, or to a place where fond friends looked out for me and waited my arrival.
15 Nothing of the sort was visible; and when I asked a waiter if any one had been to inquire after a Miss Eyre, I was answered in the negative: so I had no resource but to request to be shown into a private room: and here I am waiting, while all sorts of doubts and fears are troubling my thoughts.
16 It was a fine, calm day, though very cold; I was tired of sitting still in the library through a whole long morning: Mrs. Fairfax had just written a letter which was waiting to be posted, so I put on my bonnet and cloak and volunteered to carry it to Hay; the distance, two miles, would be a pleasant winter afternoon walk.
17 And you see, for such a large house, there are very few servants, because master has never lived here much; and when he does come, being a bachelor, he needs little waiting on: but I always think it best to err on the safe side; a door is soon fastened, and it is as well to have a drawn bolt between one and any mischief that may be about.
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