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Quotes from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
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1 I wish we may be able to benefit her permanently.
2 I wish I could describe that sermon: but it is past my power.
3 I should wish now to protract this moment ad infinitum; but I dare not.
4 I wish, Jane, I were a trifle better adapted to match with her externally.
5 The wish to have some strength and some vigour returned to me as soon as I was amongst my fellow-beings.
6 I must show her into a room by herself, and then those who wish to consult her must go to her one by one.
7 When I did speak, it was only to express an impetuous wish that I had never been born, or never come to Thornfield.
8 I continued also the wish to be with you, and experienced a strange, regretful consciousness of some barrier dividing us.
9 I had not notified to Mrs. Fairfax the exact day of my return; for I did not wish either car or carriage to meet me at Millcote.
10 As you hope ever to be forgiven, Mr. Rivers, the high crime and misdemeanour of spoiling a sanded kitchen, tell me what I wish to know.
11 Some of them are unmannered, rough, intractable, as well as ignorant; but others are docile, have a wish to learn, and evince a disposition that pleases me.
12 Yet a chance traveller might pass by; and I wish no eye to see me now: strangers would wonder what I am doing, lingering here at the sign-post, evidently objectless and lost.
13 Providence has blessed my endeavours to secure a competency; and as I am unmarried and childless, I wish to adopt her during my life, and bequeath her at my death whatever I may have to leave.
14 My heart really warmed to the worthy lady as I heard her talk; and I drew my chair a little nearer to her, and expressed my sincere wish that she might find my company as agreeable as she anticipated.
15 I only entertained the intention for a moment; for, not being insane, the crisis of exquisite and unalloyed despair, which had originated the wish and design of self-destruction, was past in a second.
16 I comprehended how he should despise himself for the feverish influence it exercised over him; how he should wish to stifle and destroy it; how he should mistrust its ever conducting permanently to his happiness or hers.
17 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.
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