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Quotes from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
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1 We had not sat long thus, when another person came in.
2 We were ascending the avenue when he thus paused; the hall was before us.
3 The school, thus improved, became in time a truly useful and noble institution.
4 Flushed and kindled thus, he looked nearly as beautiful for a man as she for a woman.
5 Also I had drawn parallels in silence, which I never thought thus to have declared aloud.
6 Meantime, the afternoon advanced, while I thus wandered about like a lost and starving dog.
7 Mr. St. John spoke almost like an automaton: himself only knew the effort it cost him thus to refuse.
8 The system thus entered on, I pursued during the whole season of probation; and with the best success.
9 To agitate him thus deeply, by a resistance he so abhorred, was cruel: to yield was out of the question.
10 Thus was I severed from Bessie and Gateshead; thus whirled away to unknown, and, as I then deemed, remote and mysterious regions.
11 Ere long, I had reason to congratulate myself on the course of wholesome discipline to which I had thus forced my feelings to submit.
12 Had he been a handsome, heroic-looking young gentleman, I should not have dared to stand thus questioning him against his will, and offering my services unasked.
13 It is only because our connection happens to be very transitory, and comes at a peculiarly mournful season, that I consent thus to render it so patient and compliant on my part.
14 She would thus descend to the kitchen once a day, eat her dinner, smoke a moderate pipe on the hearth, and go back, carrying her pot of porter with her, for her private solace, in her own gloomy, upper haunt.
15 Miss Temple, through all changes, had thus far continued superintendent of the seminary: to her instruction I owed the best part of my acquirements; her friendship and society had been my continual solace; she had stood me in the stead of mother, governess, and, latterly, companion.
16 I hardly know where I found the hardihood thus to open a conversation with a stranger; the step was contrary to my nature and habits: but I think her occupation touched a chord of sympathy somewhere; for I too liked reading, though of a frivolous and childish kind; I could not digest or comprehend the serious or substantial.
17 While disease had thus become an inhabitant of Lowood, and death its frequent visitor; while there was gloom and fear within its walls; while its rooms and passages steamed with hospital smells, the drug and the pastille striving vainly to overcome the effluvia of mortality, that bright May shone unclouded over the bold hills and beautiful woodland out of doors.
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