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Quotes from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
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1 Bitter and truculent when excited, I spoke as I felt, without reserve or softening.
2 I have been too abrupt in communicating the news; it has excited you beyond your strength.
3 I could not; though I had been on foot all day, I could not now repose an instant; I was too much excited.
4 This preparation for bonds, and the additional ignominy it inferred, took a little of the excitement out of me.
5 I shook my head: it required a degree of courage, excited as he was becoming, even to risk that mute sign of dissent.
6 I was dazzled, stimulated: my senses were excited; and being ignorant, raw, and inexperienced, I thought I loved her.
7 I was excited more than I had ever been; and whether what followed was the effect of excitement the reader shall judge.
8 Inquiry was made into the origin of the scourge, and by degrees various facts came out which excited public indignation in a high degree.
9 In her animal spirits there was an affluence of life and certainty of flow, such as excited my wonder, while it baffled my comprehension.
10 I perceived that I was sickening from excitement and inanition; neither meat nor drink had passed my lips that day, for I had taken no breakfast.
11 Besides, since yesterday I have experienced the excitement of a person to whom a tale has been half-told, and who is impatient to hear the sequel.
12 Till this moment, I had been so intent on watching them, their appearance and conversation had excited in me so keen an interest, I had half-forgotten my own wretched position: now it recurred to me.
13 Diana and Mary relieved me by turning their eyes elsewhere than to my crimsoned visage; but the colder and sterner brother continued to gaze, till the trouble he had excited forced out tears as well as colour.
14 When it came to my turn, I drank, for I was thirsty, but did not touch the food, excitement and fatigue rendering me incapable of eating: I now saw, however, that it was a thin oaten cake shared into fragments.
15 In the resolute readiness with which you cut your wealth into four shares, keeping but one to yourself, and relinquishing the three others to the claim of abstract justice, I recognised a soul that revelled in the flame and excitement of sacrifice.
16 I think those day visions were not dark: there was a pleasurable illumination in your eye occasionally, a soft excitement in your aspect, which told of no bitter, bilious, hypochondriac brooding: your look revealed rather the sweet musings of youth when its spirit follows on willing wings the flight of Hope up and on to an ideal heaven.
17 Miss Temple had always something of serenity in her air, of state in her mien, of refined propriety in her language, which precluded deviation into the ardent, the excited, the eager: something which chastened the pleasure of those who looked on her and listened to her, by a controlling sense of awe; and such was my feeling now: but as to Helen Burns, I was struck with wonder.
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