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Quotes from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
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1 He would have me sought for: vainly.
2 But for the moonlight they would have been in complete darkness.
3 Mr. Rochester would have me to come in, and I sat down in a quiet corner and watched them.
4 It was a pity: if she could but have been proved to resemble him, he would have thought more of her.
5 Not three in three thousand raw school-girl-governesses would have answered me as you have just done.
6 I cannot deny that I grieved for his grief, whatever that was, and would have given much to assuage it.
7 The look was far worse to resist than the frantic strain: only an idiot, however, would have succumbed now.
8 He did not insist, which I rather feared he would have done; he allowed me to return quietly to my usual seat.
9 I would have asked who wanted me: I would have demanded if Mrs. Reed was there; but Bessie was already gone, and had closed the nursery-door upon me.
10 This phrase, uttered in my hearing yesterday, would have only conveyed the notion that she was about to be removed to Northumberland, to her own home.
11 Many a time, as a little child, I should have been glad to love you if you would have let me; and I long earnestly to be reconciled to you now: kiss me, aunt.
12 It led me aslant over the hill, through a wide bog, which would have been impassable in winter, and was splashy and shaking even now, in the height of summer.
13 Had he treated you as an especial favourite, you would have found enemies, declared or covert, all around you; as it is, the greater number would offer you sympathy if they dared.
14 Most people would have termed her a splendid woman of her age: and so she was, no doubt, physically speaking; but then there was an expression of almost insupportable haughtiness in her bearing and countenance.
15 It was well I secured this forage, or both she, I, and Sophie, to whom I conveyed a share of our repast, would have run a chance of getting no dinner at all: every one downstairs was too much engaged to think of us.
16 If people were always kind and obedient to those who are cruel and unjust, the wicked people would have it all their own way: they would never feel afraid, and so they would never alter, but would grow worse and worse.
17 He was kept, to be sure, rather cross and crusty; but on the whole I could see he was excellently entertained, and that a lamb-like submission and turtle-dove sensibility, while fostering his despotism more, would have pleased his judgment, satisfied his common-sense, and even suited his taste less.
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