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Quotes from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
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1 Remain where you are till I return; be as still as a mouse.
2 She was returning: of course my heart thumped with impatience against the iron rails I leant upon.
3 I rose and curtseyed to them: one or two bent their heads in return, the others only stared at me.
4 I rambled round the hamlet, going sometimes to a little distance and returning again, for an hour or more.
5 He did not insist, which I rather feared he would have done; he allowed me to return quietly to my usual seat.
6 They set out early in the forenoon, some on horseback, the rest in carriages; I witnessed both the departure and the return.
7 Mrs. Fairfax folded up her knitting: I took my portfolio: we curtseyed to him, received a frigid bow in return, and so withdrew.
8 How people feel when they are returning home from an absence, long or short, I did not know: I had never experienced the sensation.
9 Silence composes the nerves; and as an unbroken hush now reigned again through the whole house, I began to feel the return of slumber.
10 I shall return to Brocklehurst Hall in the course of a week or two: my good friend, the Archdeacon, will not permit me to leave him sooner.
11 The want of his animating influence appeared to be peculiarly felt one day that he had been summoned to Millcote on business, and was not likely to return till late.
12 When his sprain was well enough to admit of horse exercise, he rode out a good deal; probably to return these visits, as he generally did not come back till late at night.
13 It was too far to return to dinner, and an allowance of cold meat and bread, in the same penurious proportion observed in our ordinary meals, was served round between the services.
14 They are making hay, too, in Thornfield meadows: or rather, the labourers are just quitting their work, and returning home with their rakes on their shoulders, now, at the hour I arrive.
15 I felt it would be injudicious to confine her too much at first; so, when I had talked to her a great deal, and got her to learn a little, and when the morning had advanced to noon, I allowed her to return to her nurse.
16 It is far better to endure patiently a smart which nobody feels but yourself, than to commit a hasty action whose evil consequences will extend to all connected with you; and besides, the Bible bids us return good for evil.
17 It is a very strange sensation to inexperienced youth to feel itself quite alone in the world, cut adrift from every connection, uncertain whether the port to which it is bound can be reached, and prevented by many impediments from returning to that it has quitted.
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