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Quotes from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
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2 I was in my room; the door was ajar: I could both listen and watch.
3 The traveller waited and watched for some time, and at last he laughed.
4 I humoured him: the watch ticked on: he breathed fast and low: I stood silent.
5 Amidst this hush the quartet sped; he replaced the watch, laid the picture down, rose, and stood on the hearth.
6 Nor was it unwarranted: in five minutes more the grating key, the yielding lock, warned me my watch was relieved.
7 Meantime, watch and pray that you enter not into temptation: the spirit, I trust, is willing, but the flesh, I see, is weak.
8 The hall lamp was now lit, and it amused her to look over the balustrade and watch the servants passing backwards and forwards.
9 Amidst all this, I had to listen as well as watch: to listen for the movements of the wild beast or the fiend in yonder side den.
10 Mary would sit and watch me by the hour together: then she would take lessons; and a docile, intelligent, assiduous pupil she made.
11 A phase of my life was closing to-night, a new one opening to-morrow: impossible to slumber in the interval; I must watch feverishly while the change was being accomplished.
12 I watch your career with interest, because I consider you a specimen of a diligent, orderly, energetic woman: not because I deeply compassionate what you have gone through, or what you still suffer.
13 It wanted but a few minutes of six, and shortly after that hour had struck, the distant roll of wheels announced the coming coach; I went to the door and watched its lamps approach rapidly through the gloom.
14 I did not now watch the actors; I no longer waited with interest for the curtain to rise; my attention was absorbed by the spectators; my eyes, erewhile fixed on the arch, were now irresistibly attracted to the semicircle of chairs.
15 I watched it ascending the drive with indifference; carriages often came to Gateshead, but none ever brought visitors in whom I was interested; it stopped in front of the house, the door-bell rang loudly, the new-comer was admitted.
16 The few who continued well were allowed almost unlimited license; because the medical attendant insisted on the necessity of frequent exercise to keep them in health: and had it been otherwise, no one had leisure to watch or restrain them.
17 Mr. Nasmyth, came between me and Miss Temple: I saw her in her travelling dress step into a post-chaise, shortly after the marriage ceremony; I watched the chaise mount the hill and disappear beyond its brow; and then retired to my own room, and there spent in solitude the greatest part of the half-holiday granted in honour of the occasion.
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