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Quotes from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
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1 Then her soul sat on her lips, and language flowed, from what source I cannot tell.
2 I well remembered all; language, glance, and tone seemed at the moment vividly renewed.
3 Forgive me for my passionate language: I was a child then; eight, nine years have passed since that day.
4 Their amazement at me, my language, my rules, and ways, once subsided, I found some of these heavy-looking, gaping rustics wake up into sharp-witted girls enough.
5 Now I never had, as the reader knows, either given any formal promise or entered into any engagement; and this language was all much too hard and much too despotic for the occasion.
6 What my sensations were no language can describe; but just as they all rose, stifling my breath and constricting my throat, a girl came up and passed me: in passing, she lifted her eyes.
7 Miss Temple had always something of serenity in her air, of state in her mien, of refined propriety in her language, which precluded deviation into the ardent, the excited, the eager: something which chastened the pleasure of those who looked on her and listened to her, by a controlling sense of awe; and such was my feeling now: but as to Helen Burns, I was struck with wonder.