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Quotes from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
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1 Tongues of flame darted round the bed: the curtains were on fire.
2 The gaping wound of my wrongs, too, was now quite healed; and the flame of resentment extinguished.
3 She was a big woman, and had long black hair: we could see it streaming against the flames as she stood.
4 The fire broke out at dead of night, and before the engines arrived from Millcote, the building was one mass of flame.
5 The flame illuminated her hand stretched out: roused now, and on the alert for discoveries, I at once noticed that hand.
6 Mr. Mason, shivering as some one chanced to open the door, asked for more coal to be put on the fire, which had burnt out its flame, though its mass of cinder still shone hot and red.
7 Above the temples, amidst wreathed turban folds of black drapery, vague in its character and consistency as cloud, gleamed a ring of white flame, gemmed with sparkles of a more lurid tinge.
8 He seemed to devour me with his flaming glance: physically, I felt, at the moment, powerless as stubble exposed to the draught and glow of a furnace: mentally, I still possessed my soul, and with it the certainty of ultimate safety.
9 I think you good, gifted, lovely: a fervent, a solemn passion is conceived in my heart; it leans to you, draws you to my centre and spring of life, wraps my existence about you, and, kindling in pure, powerful flame, fuses you and me in one.
10 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.