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Quotes from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
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1 He opened the gate, passed through it, and strayed away down the glen.
2 I was to leave Gateshead that day by a coach which passed the lodge gates at six a.
3 The great gates were closed and locked; but a wicket in one of them was only latched.
4 The church, as the reader knows, was but just beyond the gates; the footman soon returned.
5 I have but a field or two to traverse, and then I shall cross the road and reach the gates.
6 I went out and approached him as he stood leaning over the little gate; I spoke to the point at once.
7 About ten minutes after, the driver got down and opened a pair of gates: we passed through, and they clashed to behind us.
8 I leaned against a gate, and looked into an empty field where no sheep were feeding, where the short grass was nipped and blanched.
9 I have sent John down to the gates to see if there is anything on the road: one can see a long way from thence in the direction of Millcote.
10 Entering the gate and passing the shrubs, the silhouette of a house rose to view, black, low, and rather long; but the guiding light shone nowhere.
11 Iron gates between granite pillars showed me where to enter, and passing through them, I found myself at once in the twilight of close-ranked trees.
12 A little hamlet, whose roofs were blent with trees, straggled up the side of one of these hills; the church of the district stood nearer Thornfield: its old tower-top looked over a knoll between the house and gates.
13 I cannot tell what sentiment haunted the quite solitary churchyard, with its inscribed headstone; its gate, its two trees, its low horizon, girdled by a broken wall, and its newly-risen crescent, attesting the hour of eventide.
14 The side-passage door was fastened; I opened it with as little noise as possible: all the yard was quiet; but the gates stood wide open, and there was a post-chaise, with horses ready harnessed, and driver seated on the box, stationed outside.
15 The wind roared high in the great trees which embowered the gates; but the road as far as I could see, to the right hand and the left, was all still and solitary: save for the shadows of clouds crossing it at intervals as the moon looked out, it was but a long pale line, unvaried by one moving speck.