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Quotes from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
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1 Her family wished to secure me because I was of a good race; and so did she.
2 I thought I would far rather be where I am than in any high family in the land.
3 The old gentleman was fond of money, and anxious to keep the family estate together.
4 And then this money came only to me: not to me and a rejoicing family, but to my isolated self.
5 Bessie was faithful; but she had her own family to mind, and could only come occasionally to the hall.
6 He is not very forgiving: he broke with his family, and now for many years he has led an unsettled kind of life.
7 Old Mr. Rivers, she said, was a plain man enough, but a gentleman, and of as ancient a family as could be found.
8 My vacations had all been spent at school: Mrs. Reed had never sent for me to Gateshead; neither she nor any of her family had ever been to visit me.
9 With this sublime conclusion, Mr. Brocklehurst adjusted the top button of his surtout, muttered something to his family, who rose, bowed to Miss Temple, and then all the great people sailed in state from the room.
10 I saw he was going to marry her, for family, perhaps political reasons, because her rank and connections suited him; I felt he had not given her his love, and that her qualifications were ill adapted to win from him that treasure.
11 Mr. Brocklehurst and his family never came near Lowood now: household matters were not scrutinised into; the cross housekeeper was gone, driven away by the fear of infection; her successor, who had been matron at the Lowton Dispensary, unused to the ways of her new abode, provided with comparative liberality.
12 Mr. Brocklehurst, who, from his wealth and family connections, could not be overlooked, still retained the post of treasurer; but he was aided in the discharge of his duties by gentlemen of rather more enlarged and sympathising minds: his office of inspector, too, was shared by those who knew how to combine reason with strictness, comfort with economy, compassion with uprightness.