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Quotes from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
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1 These eyes in the Evening Star you must have seen in a dream.
2 I had hardly ever seen a handsome youth; never in my life spoken to one.
3 After she had seen him mount his horse and depart, she was about to close the door, but I ran up to her.
4 I followed, taking care to stand on one side, so that, screened by the curtain, I could see without being seen.
5 He is rather peculiar, perhaps: he has travelled a great deal, and seen a great deal of the world, I should think.
6 Miss Temple was not to be seen: I knew afterwards that she had been called to a delirious patient in the fever-room.
7 Seated on the carpet, by the side of this basin, was seen Mr. Rochester, costumed in shawls, with a turban on his head.
8 Having opened my chamber window, and seen that I left all things straight and neat on the toilet table, I ventured forth.
9 His eye wandered, and had no meaning in its wandering: this gave him an odd look, such as I never remembered to have seen.
10 I have seen a gipsy vagabond; she has practised in hackneyed fashion the science of palmistry and told me what such people usually tell.
11 Left alone, I walked to the window; but nothing was to be seen thence: twilight and snowflakes together thickened the air, and hid the very shrubs on the lawn.
12 Presently the words Jamaica, Kingston, Spanish Town, indicated the West Indies as his residence; and it was with no little surprise I gathered, ere long, that he had there first seen and become acquainted with Mr. Rochester.
13 The dim forehead was crowned with a star; the lineaments below were seen as through the suffusion of vapour; the eyes shone dark and wild; the hair streamed shadowy, like a beamless cloud torn by storm or by electric travail.
14 With this announcement he rose from his chair, and stood, leaning his arm on the marble mantelpiece: in that attitude his shape was seen plainly as well as his face; his unusual breadth of chest, disproportionate almost to his length of limb.
15 It was no more the withered limb of eld than my own; it was a rounded supple member, with smooth fingers, symmetrically turned; a broad ring flashed on the little finger, and stooping forward, I looked at it, and saw a gem I had seen a hundred times before.
16 I looked in vain for her I had first seen the night before; she was not visible: Miss Miller occupied the foot of the table where I sat, and a strange, foreign-looking, elderly lady, the French teacher, as I afterwards found, took the corresponding seat at the other board.
17 In the clear embers I was tracing a view, not unlike a picture I remembered to have seen of the castle of Heidelberg, on the Rhine, when Mrs. Fairfax came in, breaking up by her entrance the fiery mosaic I had been piercing together, and scattering too some heavy unwelcome thoughts that were beginning to throng on my solitude.
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