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Quotes from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
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1 The news so shocked his mother that it brought on an apoplectic attack.
2 John had not much affection for his mother and sisters, and an antipathy to me.
3 I have no relative but the universal mother, Nature: I will seek her breast and ask repose.
4 Your pity, my darling, is the suffering mother of love: its anguish is the very natal pang of the divine passion.
5 My mother said, when she came to see me last week, that she would not like a little one of her own to be in your place.
6 To-night, at least, I would be her guest, as I was her child: my mother would lodge me without money and without price.
7 Some years after I had broken with the mother, she abandoned her child, and ran away to Italy with a musician or singer.
8 He got into debt and into jail: his mother helped him out twice, but as soon as he was free he returned to his old companions and habits.
9 Miss Temple, through all changes, had thus far continued superintendent of the seminary: to her instruction I owed the best part of my acquirements; her friendship and society had been my continual solace; she had stood me in the stead of mother, governess, and, latterly, companion.
10 When we went in, and I had removed her bonnet and coat, I took her on my knee; kept her there an hour, allowing her to prattle as she liked: not rebuking even some little freedoms and trivialities into which she was apt to stray when much noticed, and which betrayed in her a superficiality of character, inherited probably from her mother, hardly congenial to an English mind.