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Quotes from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
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1 By no other circumstance had I will to decide my choice.
2 There was nothing to cool or banish love in these circumstances, though much to create despair.
3 I forget she knows nothing of the character of that woman, or of the circumstances attending my infernal union with her.
4 The saying might have worn out of my memory, had not a circumstance immediately followed which served indelibly to fix it there.
5 I had a feeling that she wished me away: that she did not understand me or my circumstances; that she was prejudiced against me.
6 I resisted all the way: a new thing for me, and a circumstance which greatly strengthened the bad opinion Bessie and Miss Abbot were disposed to entertain of me.
7 I believed he was naturally a man of better tendencies, higher principles, and purer tastes than such as circumstances had developed, education instilled, or destiny encouraged.
8 Having once explained to them that I could not now be explicit about my plans, they kindly and wisely acquiesced in the silence with which I pursued them, according to me the privilege of free action I should under similar circumstances have accorded them.
9 I was surprised at this circumstance: but still more was I amazed to perceive the air quite dim, as if filled with smoke; and, while looking to the right hand and left, to find whence these blue wreaths issued, I became further aware of a strong smell of burning.
10 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.