MISTRESS in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
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1 I will retain my post of mistress till you get a substitute.
2 I should have confided in him: he would never have forced me to be his mistress.
3 Some have whispered to you that she is my bastard half-sister: some, my cast-off mistress.
4 They said Mr. Edward had brought her from abroad, and some believed she had been his mistress.
5 A lover finds his mistress asleep on a mossy bank; he wishes to catch a glimpse of her fair face without waking her.
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.
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.
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.