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1  At last I looked up at the tardy speaker: he was looking eagerly at me.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
2  He was dressed now: he still looked pale, but he was no longer gory and sullied.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
3  He moaned so, and looked so weak, wild, and lost, I feared he was dying; and I might not even speak to him.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
4  I think he was swearing, but am not certain; however, he was pronouncing some formula which prevented him from replying to me directly.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
5  Though it was now dark, I knew he was awake; because I heard him fulminating strange anathemas at finding himself lying in a pool of water.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
6  I felt at times as if he were my relation rather than my master: yet he was imperious sometimes still; but I did not mind that; I saw it was his way.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
7  An easy-chair was near the bed-head: a man sat in it, dressed with the exception of his coat; he was still; his head leant back; his eyes were closed.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
8  I believed he was naturally a man of better tendencies, higher principles, and purer tastes than such as circumstances had developed, education instilled, or destiny encouraged.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
9  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.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
10  If he was absent from the room an hour, a perceptible dulness seemed to steal over the spirits of his guests; and his re-entrance was sure to give a fresh impulse to the vivacity of conversation.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
11  He had a dark face, with stern features and a heavy brow; his eyes and gathered eyebrows looked ireful and thwarted just now; he was past youth, but had not reached middle-age; perhaps he might be thirty-five.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
12  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.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
13  During the early part of the morning, I momentarily expected his coming; he was not in the frequent habit of entering the schoolroom, but he did step in for a few minutes sometimes, and I had the impression that he was sure to visit it that day.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
14  I had indeed levelled at that prominent feature as hard a blow as my knuckles could inflict; and when I saw that either that or my look daunted him, I had the greatest inclination to follow up my advantage to purpose; but he was already with his mama.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
15  He did not like to diminish the property by division, and yet he was anxious that Mr. Edward should have wealth, too, to keep up the consequence of the name; and, soon after he was of age, some steps were taken that were not quite fair, and made a great deal of mischief.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
16  I was now able to concentrate my attention on the group by the fire, and I presently gathered that the new-comer was called Mr. Mason; then I learned that he was but just arrived in England, and that he came from some hot country: which was the reason, doubtless, his face was so sallow, and that he sat so near the hearth, and wore a surtout in the house.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
17  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.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
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