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1  I think she is poor, for she had not so fine a house as mama.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XI
2  But at that moment the summons sounded for dinner; all re-entered the house.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER V
3  The cavalcade, following the sweep of the drive, quickly turned the angle of the house, and I lost sight of it.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVII
4  I grew weary: it was cold, in spite of the cloak; and then I did not see the use of staying, as I was not to rouse the house.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XV
5  Silence composes the nerves; and as an unbroken hush now reigned again through the whole house, I began to feel the return of slumber.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XV
6  We now slowly ascended a drive, and came upon the long front of a house: candlelight gleamed from one curtained bow-window; all the rest were dark.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XI
7  When we left the dining-room, she proposed to show me over the rest of the house; and I followed her upstairs and downstairs, admiring as I went; for all was well arranged and handsome.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XI
8  She went into the house; I stayed behind a few minutes to plant in my garden a handful of roots I had dug up in the forest, and which I feared would wither if I left them till the morning.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX
9  It was quite at the other end of the house; but I knew my way; and the light of the unclouded summer moon, entering here and there at passage windows, enabled me to find it without difficulty.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX
10  The steps and banisters were of oak; the staircase window was high and latticed; both it and the long gallery into which the bedroom doors opened looked as if they belonged to a church rather than a house.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XI
11  The strangest thing of all was, that not a soul in the house, except me, noticed her habits, or seemed to marvel at them: no one discussed her position or employment; no one pitied her solitude or isolation.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVII
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.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XI
13  I watched it ascending the drive with indifference; carriages often came to Gateshead, but none ever brought visitors in whom I was interested; it stopped in front of the house, the door-bell rang loudly, the new-comer was admitted.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV
14  She was not, I was told, in the hospital portion of the house with the fever patients; for her complaint was consumption, not typhus: and by consumption I, in my ignorance, understood something mild, which time and care would be sure to alleviate.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX
15  In spring and summer one got on better: sunshine and long days make such a difference; and then, just at the commencement of this autumn, little Adela Varens came and her nurse: a child makes a house alive all at once; and now you are here I shall be quite gay.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XI
16  Mrs. Fairfax was summoned to give information respecting the resources of the house in shawls, dresses, draperies of any kind; and certain wardrobes of the third storey were ransacked, and their contents, in the shape of brocaded and hooped petticoats, satin sacques, black modes, lace lappets, &c.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
17  And you see, for such a large house, there are very few servants, because master has never lived here much; and when he does come, being a bachelor, he needs little waiting on: but I always think it best to err on the safe side; a door is soon fastened, and it is as well to have a drawn bolt between one and any mischief that may be about.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVI
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