"There was no possibility of taking a walk that day. We had been wandering, indeed, in the leafless s..."

"I resisted all the way: a new thing for me, and a circumstance which greatly strengthened the bad op..."

"The next thing I remember is, waking up with a feeling as if I had had a frightful nightmare, and se..."

"From my discourse with Mr. Lloyd, and from the above reported conference between Bessie and Abbot, I..."

"Five o’clock had hardly struck on the morning of the 19th of January, when Bessie brought a candle i..."

"The next day commenced as before, getting up and dressing by rushlight; but this morning we were obl..."

"My first quarter at Lowood seemed an age; and not the golden age either; it comprised an irksome str..."

"Ere the half-hour ended, five o’clock struck; school was dismissed, and all were gone into the refec..."

"But the privations, or rather the hardships, of Lowood lessened. Spring drew on: she was indeed alre..."

"Hitherto I have recorded in detail the events of my insignificant existence: to the first ten years..."

"A new chapter in a novel is something like a new scene in a play; and when I draw up the curtain thi..."

"The promise of a smooth career, which my first calm introduction to Thornfield Hall seemed to pledge..."

"Mr. Rochester, it seems, by the surgeon’s orders, went to bed early that night; nor did he rise soon..."

"For several subsequent days I saw little of Mr. Rochester. In the mornings he seemed much engaged wi..."

"Mr. Rochester did, on a future occasion, explain it. It was one afternoon, when he chanced to meet m..."

"I both wished and feared to see Mr. Rochester on the day which followed this sleepless night: I want..."

"A week passed, and no news arrived of Mr. Rochester: ten days, and still he did not come. Mrs. Fairf..."

"Merry days were these at Thornfield Hall; and busy days too: how different from the first three mont..."

"The library looked tranquil enough as I entered it, and the Sibyl—if Sibyl she were—was seated snugl..."

"I had forgotten to draw my curtain, which I usually did, and also to let down my window-blind. The c..."

"Presentiments are strange things! and so are sympathies; and so are signs; and the three combined ma..."

"Mr. Rochester had given me but one week’s leave of absence: yet a month elapsed before I quitted Gat..."

"A splendid Midsummer shone over England: skies so pure, suns so radiant as were then seen in long su..."

"As I rose and dressed, I thought over what had happened, and wondered if it were a dream. I could no..."

"The month of courtship had wasted: its very last hours were being numbered. There was no putting off..."

"Sophie came at seven to dress me: she was very long indeed in accomplishing her task; so long that M..."

"Some time in the afternoon I raised my head, and looking round and seeing the western sun gilding th..."

"Two days are passed. It is a summer evening; the coachman has set me down at a place called Whitcros..."

"The recollection of about three days and nights succeeding this is very dim in my mind. I can recall..."

"The more I knew of the inmates of Moor House, the better I liked them. In a few days I had so far re..."

"My home, then, when I at last find a home,—is a cottage; a little room with whitewashed walls and a..."

"I continued the labours of the village-school as actively and faithfully as I could. It was truly ha..."

"When Mr. St. John went, it was beginning to snow; the whirling storm continued all night. The next d..."

"It was near Christmas by the time all was settled: the season of general holiday approached. I now c..."

"He did not leave for Cambridge the next day, as he had said he would. He deferred his departure a wh..."

"The daylight came. I rose at dawn. I busied myself for an hour or two with arranging my things in my..."

"The manor-house of Ferndean was a building of considerable antiquity, moderate size, and no architec..."

"Reader, I married him. A quiet wedding we had: he and I, the parson and clerk, were alone present. W..."