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1  I will retain my post of mistress till you get a substitute.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
2  I should have confided in him: he would never have forced me to be his mistress.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
3  Some have whispered to you that she is my bastard half-sister: some, my cast-off mistress.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
4  They said Mr. Edward had brought her from abroad, and some believed she had been his mistress.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
5  A lover finds his mistress asleep on a mossy bank; he wishes to catch a glimpse of her fair face without waking her.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
6  Hiring a mistress is the next worse thing to buying a slave: both are often by nature, and always by position, inferior: and to live familiarly with inferiors is degrading.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
7  She wanted to know if I was happy at Thornfield Hall, and what sort of a person the mistress was; and when I told her there was only a master, whether he was a nice gentleman, and if I liked him.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXI
8  The same lady pays for the education and clothing of an orphan from the workhouse, on condition that she shall aid the mistress in such menial offices connected with her own house and the school as her occupation of teaching will prevent her having time to discharge in person.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXX