... left the gate. She went one
way; he another. She turned twice to gaze after him as she tripped fairy-like
down the field; he, as he strode firmly across, never turned at all.
This spectacle ... mouth certainly looked a good deal compressed, and
the lower part of his face unusually stern and square, as the laughing girl
gave him this information. He lifted his gaze, too, from the daisies,...
... belief that the burglarious attempt had originated with the Family Pet;
and the former being equally disposed to concede the full merit of it to the
great Mr. Conkey Chickweed.
Meanwhile,
... hope of seeing or hearing something of the men
there; but this effort was equally fruitless. After a few days, the affair began
’Then, they are in the ditch!’ said Harry. ‘Follow! And keep as ...
’Do not press me to reply,’ answered Rose. ‘The question does not arise, and
never will. It is unfair, almost unkind, to urge it.’
’If your answer be what I almost dare to hope it is,’ retorted...
... claimed me: he surrounded me with his arm, ALMOST as
loved, well-remembered voice that of Edward Fairfax Rochester; and it
spoke in pain and woe, wildly, eerily, urgently.
"I am coming!"
... believe: it was more like an
inspiration. The wondrous shock of feeling had come like the earthquake
which shook the foundations of Paul and Silas's prison; it had opened the
doors of ... sprang trembling, listening, aghast; then vibrated thrice a
cry on my startled ear, and in my quaking heart and through my spirit, which
neither feared nor shook, but exulted as if in joy over ......
... ‘it is because the hopes and wishes of young and happy years
were bound up with him, and that fair creature of his blood and kindred who
rejoined her God in youth, and left me here a solitary, ... country to which your father in his wandering
had repaired, and where he had taken up his abode. Acquaintance, intimacy,
friendship, fast followed on each other. Your father was gifted as few...
... less effect on
his companions, who shared it, in at least an equal degree. He and the two
ladies had been very carefully made acquainted by Mr. Brownlow with the
nature of the admissions which ... Leeford’s—mother came to
me. He had left her, when only eighteen; robbed her of jewels and money;
gambled, squandered, forged, and fled to London: where for two years he
had associated with th...
... and the last-named boy quite grey. They sleep at the
parsonage, but divide their attentions so equally among its inmates, and
Oliver and Mr. Brownlow, and Mr. Losberne, that to this day the villagers ... custody of Monks (which had never prospered either in his
hands or in those of his mother) were equally divided between himself and
remembered its lessons in mercy to others, and mutual l...
... mother, at a usurious rate of interest fifty or sixty per cent.;
which interest she exacted every quarter, keeping her accounts in a little
book with anxious accuracy.
"Jane Eyre, sir." ...
then I was very little; his features were large, and they and all the lines of his
frame were equally harsh and prim.
"Well, Jane Eyre, and are you a good child?"
Impossible to r...
... that very useful appendage, a
voice, for a much longer space of time than three minutes and a quarter.
As Oliver gave this first proof of the free and proper action of his lungs, the
patchwork ... to our easy existence; and for some time he
lay gasping on a little flock mattress, rather unequally poised between this
world and the next: the balance being decidedly in favour of the latter.