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Quotes from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
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1 She had a slight figure, a pale, gentle face, and fair hair.
2 Mr. Rochester sat quiet, looking at me gently and seriously.
3 She entered into a discourse on botany with the gentle Mrs. Dent.
4 The inquiry was put in gentle tones: he drew me to him as gently.
5 The inquiry was put in gentle tones: he drew me to him as gently.
6 I was touched by his gentle tone, and overawed by his high, calm mien.
7 He responded neither by word nor movement to the gentle advances made him.
8 When I rallied, which I soon did, he walked gently with me up the path to the porch.
9 We all must die one day, and the illness which is removing me is not painful; it is gentle and gradual: my mind is at rest.
10 Now and then, in passing a casement, you glanced out at the thick-falling snow; you listened to the sobbing wind, and again you paced gently on and dreamed.
11 How I looked while these ideas were taking my spirit by storm, I cannot tell; but I perceived soon that Mr. Rivers had placed a chair behind me, and was gently attempting to make me sit down on it.
12 I permitted myself the delight of being kind to you; kindness stirred emotion soon: your face became soft in expression, your tones gentle; I liked my name pronounced by your lips in a grateful happy accent.
13 You would think him gentle, yet in some things he is inexorable as death; and the worst of it is, my conscience will hardly permit me to dissuade him from his severe decision: certainly, I cannot for a moment blame him for it.
14 Above, a chamber of the same dimensions as the kitchen, with a deal bedstead and chest of drawers; small, yet too large to be filled with my scanty wardrobe: though the kindness of my gentle and generous friends has increased that, by a modest stock of such things as are necessary.