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Quotes from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
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1 He folded the letter, locked it in his desk, and again went out.
2 My hand moved towards the lock: I caught it back, and glided on.
3 The great gates were closed and locked; but a wicket in one of them was only latched.
4 The maniac bellowed: she parted her shaggy locks from her visage, and gazed wildly at her visitors.
5 I was not quite sure whether they had locked the door; and when I dared move, I got up and went to see.
6 Nor was it unwarranted: in five minutes more the grating key, the yielding lock, warned me my watch was relieved.
7 First she went to see if the hall-door was fastened; having taken the key from the lock, she led the way upstairs.
8 I experienced a strange feeling as the key grated in the lock, and the sound of his retreating step ceased to be heard.
9 I sought the key of the side-door in the kitchen; I sought, too, a phial of oil and a feather; I oiled the key and the lock.
10 He still waited; he held a key in his hand: approaching one of the small, black doors, he put it in the lock; he paused, and addressed me again.
11 His eyes were large and blue, with brown lashes; his high forehead, colourless as ivory, was partially streaked over by careless locks of fair hair.
12 Bessie and Abbot having retreated, Mrs. Reed, impatient of my now frantic anguish and wild sobs, abruptly thrust me back and locked me in, without farther parley.
13 Rain, wind, and darkness filled the air; nevertheless, I dimly discerned a wall before me and a door open in it; through this door I passed with my new guide: she shut and locked it behind her.
14 My heart beat thick, my head grew hot; a sound filled my ears, which I deemed the rushing of wings; something seemed near me; I was oppressed, suffocated: endurance broke down; I rushed to the door and shook the lock in desperate effort.
15 This document remained locked in my drawer all day: after tea, I asked leave of the new superintendent to go to Lowton, in order to perform some small commissions for myself and one or two of my fellow-teachers; permission was readily granted; I went.
16 Most of the books were locked up behind glass doors; but there was one bookcase left open containing everything that could be needed in the way of elementary works, and several volumes of light literature, poetry, biography, travels, a few romances, &c.
17 Mr. Rivers came up as, having seen the classes, now numbering sixty girls, file out before me, and locked the door, I stood with the key in my hand, exchanging a few words of special farewell with some half-dozen of my best scholars: as decent, respectable, modest, and well-informed young women as could be found in the ranks of the British peasantry.
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