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Quotes from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
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1 I was silent: I thought he mocked me.
2 I was silent: the things were frightful.
3 Be seated somewhere; and until you can speak pleasantly, remain silent.
4 He ground his teeth and was silent: he arrested his step and struck his boot against the hard ground.
5 Impossible to reply to this in the affirmative: my little world held a contrary opinion: I was silent.
6 Millions are condemned to a stiller doom than mine, and millions are in silent revolt against their lot.
7 The room and the house were silent: only now and then the merriment of the billiard-players was heard from above.
8 There were days when she was quite silent; but there were others when I could not account for the sounds she made.
9 I was silent; Helen had calmed me; but in the tranquillity she imparted there was an alloy of inexpressible sadness.
10 It was by this time half-past five, and the sun was on the point of rising; but I found the kitchen still dark and silent.
11 When dressed, I sat a long time by the window looking out over the silent grounds and silvered fields and waiting for I knew not what.
12 When tired of this occupation, I would retire from the stairhead to the solitary and silent nursery: there, though somewhat sad, I was not miserable.
13 She sat down on the ground near me, embraced her knees with her arms, and rested her head upon them; in that attitude she remained silent as an Indian.
14 This room was chill, because it seldom had a fire; it was silent, because remote from the nursery and kitchen; solemn, because it was known to be so seldom entered.
15 I felt physically weak and broken down: but my worse ailment was an unutterable wretchedness of mind: a wretchedness which kept drawing from me silent tears; no sooner had I wiped one salt drop from my cheek than another followed.
16 Jumping over forms, and creeping under tables, I made my way to one of the fire-places; there, kneeling by the high wire fender, I found Burns, absorbed, silent, abstracted from all round her by the companionship of a book, which she read by the dim glare of the embers.
17 I covered my head and arms with the skirt of my frock, and went out to walk in a part of the plantation which was quite sequestrated; but I found no pleasure in the silent trees, the falling fir-cones, the congealed relics of autumn, russet leaves, swept by past winds in heaps, and now stiffened together.
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