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Quotes from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
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1 He spoke cheerfully: the gay tones set my heart at ease.
2 I was touched by his gentle tone, and overawed by his high, calm mien.
3 This, spoken in a cool, tranquil tone, was mortifying and baffling enough.
4 I inquired whether this was the case: no doubt in a somewhat crest-fallen tone.
5 The laugh was repeated in its low, syllabic tone, and terminated in an odd murmur.
6 I well remembered all; language, glance, and tone seemed at the moment vividly renewed.
7 Presently a voice blent with the rich tones of the instrument; it was a lady who sang, and very sweet her notes were.
8 In this room, too, there was a cabinet piano, quite new and of superior tone; also an easel for painting and a pair of globes.
9 She advocated a high tone of sentiment; but she did not know the sensations of sympathy and pity; tenderness and truth were not in her.
10 Leaving superiority out of the question, then, you must still agree to receive my orders now and then, without being piqued or hurt by the tone of command.
11 I will not swear, reader, that there was not something of repressed sarcasm both in the tone in which I uttered this sentence, and in the feeling that accompanied it.
12 Sometimes, for a fleeting moment, I thought I caught a glance, heard a tone, beheld a form, which announced the realisation of my dream: but I was presently undeserved.
13 I was mightily refreshed by the beverage; as much so as a giant with wine: it gave new tone to my unstrung nerves, and enabled me to address this penetrating young judge steadily.
14 A certain superciliousness of look, coolness of manner, nonchalance of tone, express fully their sentiments on the point, without committing them by any positive rudeness in word or deed.
15 He gave each one quiet kiss, said in a low tone a few words of welcome, stood a while to be talked to, and then, intimating that he supposed they would soon rejoin him in the parlour, withdrew there as to a place of refuge.
16 Some of them threw themselves in half-reclining positions on the sofas and ottomans: some bent over the tables and examined the flowers and books: the rest gathered in a group round the fire: all talked in a low but clear tone which seemed habitual to them.
17 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.
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