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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.
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.
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.
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, Bessie’s 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.
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.
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 lady’s 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.
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.