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1 Nor do I particularly affect simple-minded old ladies.
2 I shall do very well on the sofa in the library for the rest of the night.
3 Happily I do not mean to harm it: but, if I did, it would not take harm from me.
4 All I had now to do was to obey him in silence: no need for me to colloquise further.
5 I should have been afraid to touch a horse when alone, but when told to do it, I was disposed to obey.
6 I had meant to be so good, and to do so much at Lowood: to make so many friends, to earn respect and win affection.
7 It depends on yourself to stretch out your hand, and take it up: but whether you will do so, is the problem I study.
8 My whim is gratified; and now I think Mr. Eshton will do well to put the hag in the stocks to-morrow morning, as he threatened.
9 You think I have no feelings, and that I can do without one bit of love or kindness; but I cannot live so: and you have no pity.
10 It is thoughtless to condemn them, or laugh at them, if they seek to do more or learn more than custom has pronounced necessary for their sex.
11 His changes of mood did not offend me, because I saw that I had nothing to do with their alternation; the ebb and flow depended on causes quite disconnected with me.
12 For when I say that I am of his kind, I do not mean that I have his force to influence, and his spell to attract; I mean only that I have certain tastes and feelings in common with him.
13 Miss Eyre, draw your chair still a little farther forward: you are yet too far back; I cannot see you without disturbing my position in this comfortable chair, which I have no mind to do.
14 I had brushed my black stuff travelling-dress, prepared my bonnet, gloves, and muff; sought in all my drawers to see that no article was left behind; and now having nothing more to do, I sat down and tried to rest.
15 This afternoon, instead of dreaming of Deepden, I was wondering how a man who wished to do right could act so unjustly and unwisely as Charles the First sometimes did; and I thought what a pity it was that, with his integrity and conscientiousness, he could see no farther than the prerogatives of the crown.
16 Leaning a little back on my bench, I could see the looks and grimaces with which they commented on this manoeuvre: it was a pity Mr. Brocklehurst could not see them too; he would perhaps have felt that, whatever he might do with the outside of the cup and platter, the inside was further beyond his interference than he imagined.
17 An extinguished candle stood on the table; she was bending over the fire, and seemed reading in a little black book, like a prayer-book, by the light of the blaze: she muttered the words to herself, as most old women do, while she read; she did not desist immediately on my entrance: it appeared she wished to finish a paragraph.
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