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Quotes from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
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1 I departed, obeying his directions.
2 She obeyed him with what speed she might.
3 I obeyed: joy made me agile: I sprang up before him.
4 Mr. Mason obeyed, because it was evidently useless to resist.
5 All I had now to do was to obey him in silence: no need for me to colloquise further.
6 I obeyed him; then he put the glass on the table, stood before me, and looked at me attentively.
7 I obeyed him, and walked down to the traveller, by this time struggling himself free of his steed.
8 Helen sighed as her reverie fled, and getting up, obeyed the monitor without reply as without delay.
9 I should have been afraid to touch a horse when alone, but when told to do it, I was disposed to obey.
10 I was about mechanically to obey him, without further remonstrance; but as he helped me into the carriage, he looked at my face.
11 Burns obeyed: I looked at her narrowly as she emerged from the book-closet; she was just putting back her handkerchief into her pocket, and the trace of a tear glistened on her thin cheek.
12 I did as I was bid, though I would much rather have remained somewhat in the shade; but Mr. Rochester had such a direct way of giving orders, it seemed a matter of course to obey him promptly.
13 Miss Temple passed her handkerchief over her lips, as if to smooth away the involuntary smile that curled them; she gave the order, however, and when the first class could take in what was required of them, they obeyed.
14 I must be served at the fireside, she said; and she placed before me a little round stand with my cup and a plate of toast, absolutely as she used to accommodate me with some privately purloined dainty on a nursery chair: and I smiled and obeyed her as in bygone days.
15 Well might I dread, well might I dislike Mrs. Reed; for it was her nature to wound me cruelly; never was I happy in her presence; however carefully I obeyed, however strenuously I strove to please her, my efforts were still repulsed and repaid by such sentences as the above.