... know that had I been a sanguine,
brilliant, careless, exacting, handsome, romping child though equally
dependent and friendless Mrs. Reed would have endured my presence more
complacently; her ... bracing me with its bitter vigour; I had to stem a rapid rush of
retrospective thought before I quailed to the dismal present.
All John Reed's violent tyrannies, all his sisters' proud...
... mastiffs, the monster cats, the tower-like
men and women, of the other. Yet, when this cherished volume was now
placed in my hand when I turned over its leaves, and sought in its
marvellous pictures ... candle, so cruel that I think I
shall never forget it."
JANE EYRE
CHARLOTTE BRONTE
Chapter 3
The next thing I remember is, waking up with a feeling as if I had had a
frigh...
... though not in
reality exceeding eighty; they were uniformly dressed in brown stuff frocks
of quaint fashion, and long holland pinafores. It was the hour of study; they
were engaged in conning ... "Rasselas" looked dull to my trifling taste; I saw nothing about
fairies, nothing about genii; no bright variety seemed spread over the
closely-printed pages. I returned it to her; she...
... cold. Breakfast-time came at last, and this morning the
porridge was not burnt; the quality was eatable, the quantity small. How
small my portion seemed! I wished it had been doubled.
In the ... that most
certainly heals injury."
"What then?"
JANE EYRE
CHARLOTTE BRONTE
Chapter 6
The next day commenced as before, getting up and dressing by rushlight; but
this morn...
...
her brow settled gradually into petrified severity.
JANE EYRE
CHARLOTTE BRONTE
Chapter 7
My first quarter at Lowood seemed an age; and not the golden age either; it
comprised an irksome ... evening was spent in repeating, by heart, the Church Catechism,
and the fifth, sixth, and seventh chapters of St. Matthew; and in listening to a
long sermon, read by Miss Miller, whose irrepre...
... belonged to the Rochesters
time out of mind."
JANE EYRE
CHARLOTTE BRONTE
Chapter 11
A new chapter in a novel is something like a new scene in a play; and when I
draw up the curtain ...
is a respectable place; yet you know in winter-time one feels dreary quite
alone in the best quarters. I say alone Leah is a nice girl to be sure, and
John and his wife are very decent peop...
...
CHARLOTTE BRONTE
Chapter 12
The promise of a smooth career, which my first calm introduction to
Thornfield Hall seemed to pledge, was not belied on a longer acquaintance
with the place ... always acted as a
damper to the curiosity raised by her oral oddities: hard-featured and staid,
qualities incarnate in masculine shape, I should have known instinctively
that they neither had ....
... in the cool moonlight last
night, when you mutinied against fate, and claimed your rank as my equal.
Janet, by-the-bye, it was you who made me the offer."
"Of course I did. But to ... things, and in
another strain. Don't address me as if I were a beauty; I am your plain,
Quakerish governess."
"You are a beauty in my eyes, and a beauty just after the desire ... d...
... was to
despatch, with all speed, a constable and doctor.
Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens
CHAPTER XXVIII
LOOKS AFTER OLIVER, AND PROCEEDS
WITH HIS ADVENTURES
’Wolves tear your throats!’ muttered ... remind them of his superior position in society. But, death, fires, and
burglary, make all men equals; so Mr. Giles sat with his legs stretched out
before the kitchen fender, leaning his...
... attentively upon her young
companion.
The younger lady was in the lovely bloom and spring-time of womanhood;
at that age, when, if ever angels be for God’s good purposes enthroned in
mortal forms, ...
permit me? Not the slightest fear, I pledge you my honour”
Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens
CHAPTER XXIX
HAS AN INTRODUCTORY ACCOUNT OF
THE INMATES OF THE HOUSE, TO WHICH
OLIVER RES...