www.lessontutor.com: Study Guide: Jane Eyre Chapt. 26

In Context: “The church…as but just beyond the gates…’Mr. Wood is in the vestry, sir, putting on his surplice.’” (p. 292)

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In Context: “’The marriage cannot go on; I declare the existence of an impediment.’” (p.293)

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In Context: “…I wanted to be weak that I might avoid the awful passage of further suffering I saw laid out for me; and conscience, turned tyrant, held passion by the throat, told her tauntingly, she had yet but dipped her dainty foot in the slough, and swore that with that arm of iron, he would thrust her down to unsounded depths of agony.” (p.302)

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In Context: “…you must have a strange opinion of me: you must regard me as a plotting profligate – a base and low rake who has been simulating disinterested love in order to draw you into a snare…” (p.304)

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In Context: “’…the floodgates of tears are opened, and they would rush out if you spoke much; and you have no desire to expostulate, to upbraid, to make a scene…’” (p.304)

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In Context: “’…the floodgates of tears are opened, and they would rush out if you spoke much; and you have no desire to expostulate, to upbraid, to make a scene…’” (p.304)

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In Context: “’Sir,’ I interrupted him, ‘you are inexorable for that unfortunate lady: you speak of her with hate…’” (p.306)

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In Context: “’And did you ever hear that my father was an avaricious, grasping man?” (p.309)

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In Context: “’There is no folly so besotted that the idiotic rivalries of society, the prurience, the rashness, the blindness of youth, will not hurry a man to its commission.’” (p.310)

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In Context: “’There is no folly so besotted that the idiotic rivalries of society, the prurience, the rashness, the blindness of youth…’” (p.310)

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In Context: “’…whatever topic I started, immediately received from her a turn at once coarse and trite, perverse and imbecile...’” (p.311)

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In Context: “’…I eschewed upbraiding, I curtailed remonstrance; I tried to devour my repentance and disgust in secret…’” (p.311)

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In Context: “’Pity, Jane, from some people is a noxious and insulting sort of tribute, which one is justified in hurling back in the teeth of those who offer it…’” (p.313)

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In Context: “’…I repudiated the contamination of her crimes, and wrenched myself from connection with her mental defects.’” (p.312)

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In Context: “’…that recollection was … inexpressibly odious to me…’” (p.312)

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In Context: “Whilst I walked … amongst (the) drenched pomegranates and pine-apples, and while the refulgent dawn of the tropics kindled round me…’” (p.313)

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In Context: “’Let her identity, her connection with yourself, be buried in oblivion: you are bound to impart them to no living being.’” (p.314)

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In Context: “’Place her in safety and comfort: shelter her degradation with secrecy, and leave her.’” (p.314)

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In Context: “’I had some trouble in finding an attendant for her; as it was necessary to select one on whose fidelity dependence could be placed; for her ravings would inevitably betray my secret…’” (p.314)

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In Context: “’I longed only for what suited me – for the antipodes …’” (p.316)

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In Context: “’Disappointment made me reckless. I tried dissipation – never debauchery: that I hated and hate.’” (p.316)

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In Context: “’On a stile in Hay Lane I saw a quiet little figure sitting by itself…I had no presentiment…that the arbitress of my life…waited there in humble guise.’” (p.317)

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In Context: “’Childish and slender creature! It seemed as if a linnet had hopped to my foot and proposed to bear me on it tiny wing.’” (p.318)

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In Context: “’When at last she left you, you lapsed at once into deep reverie…with…day visions…’” (p.318)

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In Context: “’…there was a pleasurable illumination in your eye occasionally, a soft excitement in your aspect, which told of no bitter, bilious, hypochondriac brooding: your look revealed rather the sweet musings of youth.’” (p.318)

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In Context: “’…your air was...of (one) afraid of making herself disadvantageously conspicuous by some solecism or blunder…’” (p.319)

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In Context: “’I was an intellectual epicure, and wished to prolong the gratification of making this novel and piquant acquaintance.’” (p.319)

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In Context: “’I should have appealed to your nobleness and magnanimity…’” (p.320)

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In Context: “The light that long ago had struck me into syncope, recalled in this vision, seemed glidingly to mount the wall……’” (p.324)

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In Context: “…I could yet spare him the bitter pang of bereavement…I could go back and be his comforter…” (p.326)

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In Context: “I had no solace from self-approbation: none even from self-respect. I had injured – wounded – left my master. I was hateful in my own eyes.” (p.327)

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“It was with me: and I did not like it. It was a groveling fashion of existence: I should never like to return to it. Hiring a mistress is the next worst thing to buying a slave: both are often by nature, and always by position, inferior: and to live familiarly with inferiors is degrading. I now hate the recollection of the time I passed with Celine, Giacinta, and Clara.”
I felt the truth of these words; and I drew from the certain inference, that if I were so far to forget myself and all the teaching that had ever been instilled into me, as – under any pretext – with any justification – through any temptation – to become the successor of these poor girls, he would one day regard me with the same feeling which now in his mind desecrated their memory.

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Jane finds herself starving, exhausted, and destitute. At the point of death, she at last finds aid from the hands of St. John, Diana, and Mary Rivers.

In Context: “The dew fell, but with propitious softness; no breeze whispered. Nature seemed to me benign and good…” (p. 329)

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In Context: “Nature seemed to me benign and good; I thought she loved me, outcast as I was; and I, who from man could anticipate only mistrust, rejection, (and) insult, clung to her with filial fondness.” (p.329)

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In Context: “…a sad heart…trembled…impotent as a bird with both wings broken, it still quivered its shattered pinions in vain attempts to seek him.” (p.329)

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In Context: “Near the churchyard…stood a…small house, which I had no doubt was the parsonage.” (p.333)

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In Context: “’My strength is quite failing me,’ I said, in soliloquy.’” (p.335)

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In Context: “Entering the gate and passing the shrubs, the silhouette of a house rose to view; black, low, and rather long; but the guiding light shone nowhere. All was obscurity.” (p.337)

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In Context: “I noted these objects cursorily only – in them there was nothing extraordinary.” (p.337)

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In Context: “And how impossible did it appear to touch the inmates of this house with concern on my behalf; to make them believe in the truth of my wants and woes – to induce them to vouchsafe a rest for my wanderings!” (p.340)

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In Context: “’Perhaps a little water would restore her. Hannah, fetch some. But she is worn to nothing. How very thin and how very bloodless!’
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‘Is she ill, or only famished?’” (p.342)

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In Context: “’A little more, St. John – look at the avidity in her eyes.’” (p.342)

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In Context: “…I answered – ‘My name is Jane Elliott.’ Anxious as ever to avoid discovery, I had before resolved to assume an alias.” (p.342)

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In Context: “I dared to put off the mendicant – to resume my natural manner and character.” (p.343)

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In Context: “Never once in their dialogues did I hear a syllable of regret at the hospitality they had extended to me; or of suspicion of, or aversion to, myself.” (p.345)

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In Context: “’You will find she is some young lady who has had a misunderstanding with her friends and has probably injudiciously left them.’” (p.345)

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In Context: “’…I trace lines of force in her face which make me skeptical of her tractability.’” (p.345)

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In Context: “When she left me, I felt comparatively strong and revived; ere long, satiety of repose and desire for action stirred me.” (p.345)

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In Context: “Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart…” (p.347)

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In Context: “Mr. St. John – sitting as still as one of the dusky pictures on the walls; keeping his eyes fixed on the page he perused and his lips mutely sealed – was easy enough to examine.” (p.350)

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In Context: “Quiescent as he now sat, there was something about his nostril, his mouth, his brow, which, to my perceptions, indicated elements within either restless, or hard, or eager.” (p.351)

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In Context: “St. John’s eyes, though clear enough in a literal sense, in a figurative one were difficult to fathom.” (p.351)

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In Context: “I (hope) that some true philanthropist will put me in the way of getting work…and the remuneration…will keep me: if but in the barest necessaries…” (p.352)

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In Context: “Miserable I am, and must be for a time; for the catastrophe which drove me from the house I had found a paradise was of a strange and direful nature.” (p.353)

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In Context: “’I know all your sisters have done for me since – for I have not been insensible during my seeming torpor – and I owe to their spontaneous, genuine, genial compassion, as large a debt as to your evangelical charity.’” (p.353)

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In Context: “But when St. John had mused a few moments, he recommenced, as imperturbably, and with as much acumen as ever.” (p.354)

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In Context: “And if you are inclined to despise the day of small things, seek some more efficient succor than such as I can offer.” (p.354)

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In Context: “They loved their sequestered home. I, too, in the gray, small, antique structure…under…mountain winds; its garden, dark with yew and holly – and where no flowers but of the hardiest species would bloom – found a charm both potent and permanent.” (p.355)

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In Context: “The strong blast and the soft breeze; the rough and the halcyon day; the hours of sunrise and sunset…” (p.356)

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In Context: “Mary would sit and watch me by the hour…then she would take lessons; and a docile, intelligent, assiduous pupil she made.” (p.356)

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In Context: “I am poor; for I find that, when I have paid my father’s debts, all the patrimony remaining to me will be this crumbling grange, the row of scathed firs behind, and the patch of moorish soil…” (p.359)

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In Context: “’…to live here …pent in with mountain – my nature, that God gave me, contravened; my faculties, heaven bestowed, paralysed – made useless.’”(p.362)

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In Context: “You would think him gentle, yet in some things he is inexorable as death…” (p.363)

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In Context: “At that moment a little accident supervened…the vexing one of the slip between the cup and the lip.” (p.363)

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Writing Assignment:
Describe Jane’s new position. How will it be different from her past job at Thornfield? How is it like other experiences in her life? Why do you think she accepts the position? Write at least 200 words. Write in complete sentences in paragraph format.

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Jane begins teaching in the village school, meets Miss Oliver, and learns she has family.

In Context: “My home…is a cottage…containing four painted chairs and a table…a cupboard with two or three plates and dishes, and a set of tea-things in delf.” (p. 364)

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In Context: “I must not forget that these coarsely clad little peasants are of flesh and blood as good as the scions of gentlest genealogy…” (p.365)

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In Context: “My cottage is clean…my furniture sufficient and commodious.” (p.367)

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In Context: “…yes, the heart of a politician, of a soldier, of a votary of glory, a lover of renown, a luster after power…” (p.368)

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In Context: “…my powers heard a call from heaven to rise, gather their full strength, spread their wings, and mount beyond ken.” (p.368)

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In Context: “’Do you think you shall like Morton?’
…’I shall. I have many inducements to do so.’” (p.370)

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In Context: “She filled up the hiatus his silence left by a reply of her own.” (p.371)

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In Context: “In spite of his Christian stoicism, when she went up and addressed him … fondly in his face, his hand would tremble and his eye burn.” (p.374)

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In Context: “…she would withdraw her hand hastily from his, and turn in transient petulance from his aspect at once so heroic and so martyr-like.” (p.374))

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In Context: “…Mr. Oliver…massive-featured, middle-aged, and gray-headed…at whose side his lovely daughter looked like a bright flower near a hoary turret..” (p.375)

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In Context: “Her father…expressed in strong terms his approbation of what I had done in Morton School; and said he only feared, from what he saw and heard, I was too good for the place and would soon quit it for one more suitable.” (p.376)

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In Context: “’I will promise to paint you a careful and faithful duplicate of this very picture…would it be a consolation to have that memento in your possession? Or would the sight of it bring recollections calculated to enervate and distress?’” (p.378)

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In Context: “I discerned he was…neither angry nor shocked at my audacity.” (p.379)

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In Context: “’Fancy me yielding and melting as I am doing: human love rising like a freshly opened fountain in my mind and overflowing with sweet inundation all the field I have so carefully, and with such labor prepared – so assiduously sown with the seeds of good intentions, of self-denying plans.’” (p.379)

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In Context: “’Fancy...love rising like a freshly opened fountain in my mind and overflowing with sweet inundation all the field I have so carefully, and with such labor prepared – so assiduously sown with the seeds of good intentions…’” (p.379)

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In Context: “’I scorn the weakness. I know it is ignoble, a mere fever of the flesh, not, I declare, the convulsion of the soul.’” (p.381)

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In Context: “…the story will sound somewhat hackneyed in your ears; but stale details often regain a degree of freshness when they pass through new lips.” (p.385)

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In Context: “It is a fine thing, reader, to be lifted in a moment from indigence to wealth…” (p.388)

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In Context: “’Did I not say you neglected essential points to pursue trifles?’” (p.393)

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20. The Word: intimated (Be sure that you use this as a VERB in your sentence.)

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Writing Assignment:
Jane learns that John, Diana, and Mary Rivers are her cousins. Their mother was Jane’s father’s sister. When Jane’s parents died, she might have been sent to live with the Rivers but – as we know from the plot – was sent instead to the Reed home. Write a paragraph telling how different Jane’s life might have been had she grown up in the Rivers home rather than the Reed home.

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Jane entertains yet a second proposal of marriage and responds to a cry for help.

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In Context: “Still some novelty was necessary, to give to their return the piquancy with which I wished it to be invested.” (p. 398)

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In Context: “My cousins, full of exhilaration, were so eloquent in narrative an comment, that their fluency covered St. John’s taciturnity…” (pp. 400-401)

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In Context: “…the glad tumult, the garrulous glee of reception, irked him: I could see that he wished the quieter morrow was come.” (p.401)

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In Context: “I am afraid the whole of the ensuing week tried his patience.” (p.401)

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In Context: “…my voice failed me: words were lost in sobs…And while I smothered the paroxysm with all haste, he sat calm and patient…” (p.407)

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In Context: “…watching with the eye of science an expected and fully understood crisis in a patient’s malady.” (p. 407)

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In Context: “’Do you think God will be satisfied with half an oblation? Will he accept a mutilated sacrifice?’” (p.413)

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In Context: “How much of him was saint, how much mortal, I could not heretofore tell…I saw his fallibilities: I comprehended them.” (p.413)

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In Context: “The veil fell from his hardness and despotism. Having felt in him the presence of these qualities, I felt his imperfection…” (p.414)

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In Context: “…he made me feel what severe punishment, a good, yet stern, a conscientious, yet implacable man can inflict on one who has offended him.” (p.417)

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In Context: “Not that St. John harbored a spirit of unchristian vindictiveness – not that he would have injured a hair of my head…” (p.418)

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In Context: “’I cannot give you up to perdition as a vessel of wrath: repent – resolve; while there is yet time.’” (p.425)

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In Context: “All men of talent, whether they be men of feeling or not: whether they be zealots, or aspirants, or despots – provided only they be sincere – have their sublime moments…” (p.425)

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In Context: “I felt veneration for St. John – veneration so strong that its impetus thrust me at once to the point I had so long shunned.” (p.426)

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In Context: “I broke from St. John; who had followed, and would have detained me. It was my time to assume ascendancy.” (p.427)

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In Context: “I looked with timorous joy towards a stately house: I saw a blackened ruin.” (p. 432)

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In Context: “’I thought you would be revolted, Jane, when you saw my arm, and my cicatrized visage.’” (p. 444)

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In Context: “The water stood in my eyes to hear this avowal of his dependence: just as if a royal eagle, chained to a perch, should be forced to entreat a sparrow to become its purveyor.” (p. 447)

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In Context: “But I would not be lachrymose: I dashed off the salt drops, and busied myself with preparing breakfast.” (p.447)

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In Context: “I softened considerably what related to the three days of wandering and starvation…the little I did say lacerated his faithful heart deeper than I wished.” (p.448)

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In Context: “’Miss Eyre, I repeat it, you can leave me…Why do you remain pertinaciously perched on my knee, when I have given you notice to quit?’” (p.451)

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