... JANE EYRE
CHARLOTTE BRONTE
Chapter 22
Mr. Rochester had given me but one week's leave of absence: yet ... carriage, Jane, and tell me if you don't think it will suit
Mrs. Rochester exactly; and whether she won't look like Queen Boadicea,
leaning back against those purple cushions. I wish, Jane, ...
have a veil it is down: I may make shift yet to behave with decen...
... JANE EYRE
CHARLOTTE BRONTE
Chapter 1
There was no possibility of taking a walk that day. We had been wandering, ... lay reclined on a sofa by the fireside, and with her
darlings about her (for the time neither quarrelling nor crying) looked
perfectly happy. Me, she had dispensed from joining the group; saying, ... contented, happy, little children."
"What does Bessie...
...
JANE EYRE
CHARLOTTE BRONTE
Chapter 10
Hitherto I have recorded in detail the events of my insignificant existence: to
the first ten years of my life I have given almost as many chapters. ... which
excited public indignation in a high degree. The unhealthy nature of the site;
the quantity and quality of the children's food; the brackish, fetid water used
in its preparation...
... Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens
CHAPTER XIX
IN WHICH A NOTABLE PLAN IS DISCUSSED AND
DETERMINED ON
It was a chill, damp, ... involved in a maze of the mean and dirty streets which abound in
that close and densely-populated quarter.
The Jew was evidently too familiar with the ground he traversed to be at all
bewildered,
... Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens
CHAPTER XX
WHEREIN OLVER IS DELIVERED OVER TO MR.
WILLIAM SIKES
When Oliver awoke in the morning, ... meaning.
He could think of no bad object to be attained by sending him to Sikes,
which would not be equally well answered by his remaining with Fagin; and
after meditating for a long time, concluded ... first; but, lighting on a passage
which attra...
... Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens
CHAPTER XXXI
INVOLVES A CRITICAL POSITION
’Who’s that?’ inquired Brittles, opening the door ... 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,
... Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens
CHAPTER XXIV
CONTAINS SOME INTRODUCTORY
PARTICULARS RELATIVE TO A YOUNG
GENTLEMAN WHO NOW ARRIVES ... made a great many other remarks, no less illustrative of his humility,
which were received with equal favour and applause, and were, withal, as
original and as much to the purpose, as the remarks
... Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens
CHAPTER XXXVIII
CONTAINING AN ACCOUNT OF WHAT
PASSED BETWEEN MR. AND MRS. BUMBLE,
AND MR. MONKS, AT ... entered, was softly unfastened and
opened by Monks; merely exchanging a nod with their mysterious
acquaintance, the married couple emerged into the wet and darkness outside.
They were no sooner gone, ... addressed to Bumble; but his wife anticipated...
... JANE EYRE
CHARLOTTE BRONTE
Chapter 21 -2
Two young ladies appeared before me; one very tall, almost as tall ... what was the great
attraction of that volume, and she said, "the Rubric." Three hours she gave to
stitching, with gold thread, the border of a square crimson cloth, almost large
enough ... up!" said she; "don't annoy me with holding the clothes...
... and ardour for an adequate cause; forbear to waste them
on trite transient objects. Do you hear, Jane? "
"Yes; just as if you were speaking Greek. I feel I have adequate cause to be
happy, ...
"No, Jane, no: this world is not the scene of fruition; do not attempt to make
it so: nor of rest; do not turn slothful."
"I mean, on the contrary, to be busy."
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