1 All was changing utterly with a sudden sweep.
2 He was lifting the latch: a sudden thought occurred to me.
3 I saw his solemn eye melt with sudden fire, and flicker with resistless emotion.
4 It was a sudden meeting, and one in which rapture was kept well in check by pain.
5 He almost started at my sudden and strange abruptness: he looked at me astonished.
6 He had been walking fast about the room, and he stopped, as if suddenly rooted to one spot.
7 He suddenly seemed to arouse himself: the conviction of the reality of all this seized him.
8 What he suddenly saw on this blank paper, it was impossible for me to tell; but something had caught his eye.
9 I wonder if he read that notion in my face; for, all at once, without speaking, he struck suddenly and strongly.
10 He had been called away by the sudden death of his father: he was at Marsh End now, and would very likely stay there a fortnight longer.
11 In my hand I held the tract containing the sudden death of the Liar, to which narrative my attention had been pointed as to an appropriate warning.
12 He had been looking two minutes at the fire, and I had been looking the same length of time at him, when, turning suddenly, he caught my gaze fastened on his physiognomy.
13 A peep, and then a long stare; and then a departure from my niche and a straying out into the meadow; and a sudden stop full in front of the great mansion, and a protracted, hardy gaze towards it.
14 Lulled by the sound, I at last dropped asleep; I had not long slumbered when the sudden cessation of motion awoke me; the coach-door was open, and a person like a servant was standing at it: I saw her face and dress by the light of the lamps.
15 It was English history: among the readers I observed my acquaintance of the verandah: at the commencement of the lesson, her place had been at the top of the class, but for some error of pronunciation, or some inattention to stops, she was suddenly sent to the very bottom.
16 I listened long: suddenly I discovered that my ear was wholly intent on analysing the mingled sounds, and trying to discriminate amidst the confusion of accents those of Mr. Rochester; and when it caught them, which it soon did, it found a further task in framing the tones, rendered by distance inarticulate, into words.
17 She came and shook hand with me when she heard that I was her governess; and as I led her in to breakfast, I addressed some phrases to her in her own tongue: she replied briefly at first, but after we were seated at the table, and she had examined me some ten minutes with her large hazel eyes, she suddenly commenced chattering fluently.
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