Jane Eyre

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Jane Eyre

• A small breakfast-room adjoined the drawing-room,
  I slipped in there. It contained a bookcase I
  soon possessed myself of a volume taking care
  that it should be one stored with pictures. I
  mounted into the window-seat gathering up my
  feet, I sat cross-legged, like a Turk and,
  having drawn the red moreen curtain nearly close,
  I was shrined in double retirement. Folds of
  scarlet drapery shut in my view to the right
  hand to the left were the clear panes of glass,
  protecting, but not separating me from the drear
  November day. At intervals, while turning over
  the leaves in my book, I studied the aspect of
  that winter afternoon. C. Brontë, Jane Eyre, an
  autobiography, (1847) edited by Q. D. Leavis,
  Penguin, London 1966, p. 39.

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Jane Eyre

• Adele flew to the window. I followed, taking care
  to stand on one side, so that, screened by the
  curtain, I could see without being seen. The
  cavalcade, following the sweep of the drive,
  quickly turned the angle of the house, and I lost
  sight of it. C Brontë, Jane Eyre, an
  autobiography, (1847), cit., pp. 195-196.

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Jane Eyre

• When I passed the windows I now and then lifted
  a blind a looked out it snowed fast, a drift was
  already froming against the lower panes. C
  Brontë, Jane Eyre, an autobiography, cit., p. 87.

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Jane Eyre

• returning I had to cross before the
  looking-glass my fascinated glance involuntarily
  explored the depth it revealed. All looked colder
  and darker in that visionary hollow than in
  reality and the strange little figure there
  gazing at me with a white face and arms specking
  the gloom and glittering eyes of fear moving
  where all else was still, had the effect of a
  real spirit I thought it like one of the tiny
  phantoms, half fairy, half imp, Bessies evening
  stories represented as coming out of lone ,
  and appearing before the eyes of belated
  travellers. C Brontë, Jane Eyre, an
  autobiography, cit., p. 46.

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Jane Eyre

• When you came on me in Hay Lane last night, I
  thought unaccountably of fairy tales, and had
  half a mind to demand whether you had bewitched
  my horse. p. 153.

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Jane Eyre

• Listen, then, Jane Eyre, to your sentence
  to-morrow, place the glass before you, and draw
  in chalk your own picture, faithfully, without
  softening one defect. Afterwards take a piece
  of smooth ivory paint it in your softest
  shades and sweetest hues, according to the
  description given by Mrs Fairfax of Blanche
  Ingram. Whenever in future you should chance
  to fancy Mr Rochester thinks well of you, take
  out these two pictures and compare them say Mr
  Rochester might probably win that noble ladys
  love, if he chose to strive for it it is likely
  he would waste a serious thought on this indigent
  and insignificant plebeian?. C Brontë, Jane
  Eyre, an autobiography, cit., pp. 190-191.

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Jane Eyre

• As I rose and dressed, I thought over what had
  happened, and wondered if it were a dream. I
  could not be certain of the reality till I had
  seen Mr. Rochester again, and heard him renew his
  words of love and promise. While arranging my
  hair, I looked at my face in the glass, and felt
  it was no longer plain C Brontë, Jane Eyre, an
  autobiography, (1847), cit., p. 286.