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Quotes from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
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1 I could not help it: the restlessness was in my nature; it agitated me to pain sometimes.
2 To agitate him thus deeply, by a resistance he so abhorred, was cruel: to yield was out of the question.
3 I felt a burning glow mount to my face; for bitter and agitating recollections were awakened by the allusion to marriage.
4 Helen regarded me, probably with surprise: I could not now abate my agitation, though I tried hard; I continued to weep aloud.
5 His face was very much agitated and very much flushed, and there were strong workings in the features, and strange gleams in the eyes.
6 I heard voices, too, speaking with a hollow sound, and as if muffled by a rush of wind or water: agitation, uncertainty, and an all-predominating sense of terror confused my faculties.
7 The matrons, meantime, offered vinaigrettes and wielded fans; and again and again reiterated the expression of their concern that their warning had not been taken in time; and the elder gentlemen laughed, and the younger urged their services on the agitated fair ones.
8 I can now conjecture readily that this streak of light was, in all likelihood, a gleam from a lantern carried by some one across the lawn: but then, prepared as my mind was for horror, shaken as my nerves were by agitation, I thought the swift darting beam was a herald of some coming vision from another world.