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

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

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.

Jane Eyre I looked out afar over sequestered field and hill, and along dim skyline- that then I longed for a power of vision which might overpass the limit, which might reach the busy world, towns, regions full of life I had heard of but never seen”. C. Brontë, Jane Eyre, cit., p. 140.

Jane Eyre “I reached the lodge at Gateshead about five o’clock in the afternoon of the first of May: I stepped in there before going up to the hall. It was very clean and neat: the ornamental windows were hung with little white curtains; the floor was spotless; the grate and fire-irons were burnished bright, and the fire burnt clear. Bessie sat on the hearth nursing the last-born, and Robert and his sisters played quietly in a corner”. C Brontë, Jane Eyre, an autobiography, (1847), cit., p. 255.

Jane Eyre With this announcement he rose from his chair, and stood, leaning his arm on the marble mantelpiece: in that attitude his shape was seen plainly as well as his face; his unusual breadth of chest, disproportionate almost to his length of limb”. Ibid., p. 162.