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Quotes from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
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1 But for the moonlight they would have been in complete darkness.
2 Certainly, my associates and pursuits shall be other than they have been.
3 I answered him by assuming it: to refuse would, I felt, have been unwise.
4 You have been charged with falsehood; defend yourself to me as well as you can.
5 It was a pity: if she could but have been proved to resemble him, he would have thought more of her.
6 I should have been afraid to touch a horse when alone, but when told to do it, I was disposed to obey.
7 I would as soon have been charged with a pauper brat out of a workhouse: but he was weak, naturally weak.
8 I had not qualities or talents to make my way very well in the world: I should have been continually at fault.
9 Yet, I thought, I ought to have been happy, for none of the Reeds were there, they were all gone out in the carriage with their mama.
10 You were born, I think, to be my torment: my last hour is racked by the recollection of a deed which, but for you, I should never have been tempted to commit.
11 And yet it is said the Rochesters have been rather a violent than a quiet race in their time: perhaps, though, that is the reason they rest tranquilly in their graves now.
12 Mr. Rochester must have been aware of the entrance of Mrs. Fairfax and myself; but it appeared he was not in the mood to notice us, for he never lifted his head as we approached.
13 Thanks to it, I was able to meet subsequent occurrences with a decent calm, which, had they found me unprepared, I should probably have been unequal to maintain, even externally.
14 Bessie Lee must, I think, have been a girl of good natural capacity, for she was smart in all she did, and had a remarkable knack of narrative; so, at least, I judge from the impression made on me by her nursery tales.
15 Had Grace been young and handsome, I should have been tempted to think that tenderer feelings than prudence or fear influenced Mr. Rochester in her behalf; but, hard-favoured and matronly as she was, the idea could not be admitted.
16 This state of things should have been to me a paradise of peace, accustomed as I was to a life of ceaseless reprimand and thankless fagging; but, in fact, my racked nerves were now in such a state that no calm could soothe, and no pleasure excite them agreeably.
17 I really did not expect any Grace to answer; for the laugh was as tragic, as preternatural a laugh as any I ever heard; and, but that it was high noon, and that no circumstance of ghostliness accompanied the curious cachinnation; but that neither scene nor season favoured fear, I should have been superstitiously afraid.
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