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Quotes from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
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1 I speak particularly of the young ladies.
2 I will speak to Miss Temple and the teachers.
3 They speak with the broadest accent of the district.
4 He sat down: but he did not get leave to speak directly.
5 I still possessed my senses, though just now I could not speak.
6 He had not imagined that a woman would dare to speak so to a man.
7 Be seated somewhere; and until you can speak pleasantly, remain silent.
8 On the third day I was better; on the fourth, I could speak, move, rise in bed, and turn.
9 He did not speak to me one word, nor even direct to me one glance, till his sisters returned.
10 His voice and hand quivered: his large nostrils dilated; his eye blazed: still I dared to speak.
11 He moaned so, and looked so weak, wild, and lost, I feared he was dying; and I might not even speak to him.
12 When I did speak, it was only to express an impetuous wish that I had never been born, or never come to Thornfield.
13 When he did come down, it was to attend to business: his agent and some of his tenants were arrived, and waiting to speak with him.
14 He listened very gravely; his face, as I went on, expressed more concern than astonishment; he did not immediately speak when I had concluded.
15 Mobile and flexible, it was never intended to be compressed in the eternal silence of solitude: it is a mouth which should speak much and smile often, and have human affection for its interlocutor.
16 To speak truth, I had not the least wish to go into company, for in company I was very rarely noticed; and if Bessie had but been kind and companionable, I should have deemed it a treat to spend the evenings quietly with her, instead of passing them under the formidable eye of Mrs. Reed, in a room full of ladies and gentlemen.
17 I was confirmed in this idea by the fact of her once or twice coming downstairs on very warm sunny afternoons, and being taken by Miss Temple into the garden; but, on these occasions, I was not allowed to go and speak to her; I only saw her from the schoolroom window, and then not distinctly; for she was much wrapped up, and sat at a distance under the verandah.
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