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Quotes from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
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2 I regained my couch, but never thought of sleep.
3 But it was not fated that I should sleep that night.
4 It seemed that sleep and night had resumed their empire.
5 Being unable to sleep in bed, I got up and opened the window.
6 That kind master, who could not sleep now, was waiting with impatience for day.
7 I again nestled to the breast of the hill; and ere long in sleep forgot sorrow.
8 I tried again to sleep; but my heart beat anxiously: my inward tranquillity was broken.
9 In the midst of blaze and vapour, Mr. Rochester lay stretched motionless, in deep sleep.
10 That night I never thought to sleep; but a slumber fell on me as soon as I lay down in bed.
11 No sleep was there: the inmate was walking restlessly from wall to wall; and again and again he sighed while I listened.
12 I could not sleep unless it was folded in my night-gown; and when it lay there safe and warm, I was comparatively happy, believing it to be happy likewise.
13 You must share it with her to-night, Jane: it is no wonder that the incident you have related should make you nervous, and I would rather you did not sleep alone: promise me to go to the nursery.
14 Though I had now extinguished my candle and was laid down in bed, I could not sleep for thinking of his look when he paused in the avenue, and told how his destiny had risen up before him, and dared him to be happy at Thornfield.
15 A frequent interlude of these performances was the enactment of the part of Eutychus by some half-dozen of little girls, who, overpowered with sleep, would fall down, if not out of the third loft, yet off the fourth form, and be taken up half dead.
16 During all my first sleep, I was following the windings of an unknown road; total obscurity environed me; rain pelted me; I was burdened with the charge of a little child: a very small creature, too young and feeble to walk, and which shivered in my cold arms, and wailed piteously in my ear.
17 Mrs. Reed surveyed me at times with a severe eye, but seldom addressed me: since my illness, she had drawn a more marked line of separation than ever between me and her own children; appointing me a small closet to sleep in by myself, condemning me to take my meals alone, and pass all my time in the nursery, while my cousins were constantly in the drawing-room.
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