Jane Eyre

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J.M. Dent, 1893
 

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Página 71 - Jane, I never meant to wound you thus. If the man who had but one little ewe lamb that was dear to him as a daughter, that ate of his bread and drank of his cup, and lay in his bosom, had by some mistake slaughtered it at the shambles, he would not have rued
Página 250 - You are to send in your name and your business," she replied. She then proceeded to fill a glass with water, and place it on a tray, together with candles. When she returned, I inquired what he had said. " Yes: he always has candles brought in at dark, though he is blind."
Página 173 - for bondage—religion for superstition—the hope of heaven for the fear of hell ? Must I relinquish that ? It is dearer than the blood in my veins. It is what I have to look forward to, and to live for." After a considerable pause, I said,—"And Miss Oliver ? Are her disappointment and sorrow of no interest to you
Página 22 - For a little while you will perhaps be as you are now,—a very little while; and then you will turn cool; and then you will be capricious ; and then you will be stern, and I shall have much ado to please you : but when you get well used to me, you will perhaps like me
Página 130 - while. When he is at home, he is in his own parish at Morton." " That village a few miles off ? " "Aye." " And what is he ? " I remembered the answer of the old housekeeper at the parsonage, when I had asked to see the clergyman. " This, then, was his father's residence ?" " He is a parson.
Página 12 - I may stay here, till I find another shelter to betake myself to: " but I stopped, feeling it would not do to risk a long sentence, for my voice was not quite under command. " Yes, sir, I will advertise immediately : and meantime, I suppose " I was going to say,
Página 25 - a blue-piled thunderloft.' That will be your married look, sir, I suppose ?" " If that will be your married look, I, as a Christian, will soon give up the notion of consorting with a mere sprite or salamander. But what had you to ask, thing ? —out with it! "
Página 170 - baffled by a little stiffness on your part; I'm prepared to go to considerable lengths." I continued, " You observed it closely and distinctly: but I have no objection to your looking at it again," and I rose and placed it in his hand. " Yes, yes ; I know all that. But what of
Página 25 - There, you are less than civil now; and I like rudeness a great deal better than flattery. I had rather be a thing than an angel. This is what I have to ask, —Why did you take such pains to make me believe you wished to marry Miss Ingram
Página 40 - I assured him I was naturally hard—very flinty, and that he would often find me so ; and that, moreover, I was determined to show him divers rugged points in my character before the ensuing four weeks elapsed: he should know fully what sort of a bargain he had made, while there was yet time to rescind it.

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