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I went to my , opened it, and looked out There were the two

wings of the building; there was the garden; there were the skirts

of Lowood; there was the hilly horizon My eye passed all other

objects to rest on those ed to surmount; all within their boundary of rock and heath

seeround, exile li

round the base of one ed to follow it farther! I recalled the time when I

had travelled that very road in a coach; I ree seeht me first to Lowood, and I had never quitted it since

My vacations had all been spent at school: Mrs Reed had never sent

for me to Gateshead; neither she nor any of her family had ever been

to visit e with

the outer world: school-rules, school-duties, school-habits and

notions, and voices, and faces, and phrases, and costumes, and

preferences, and antipathies--such hat I knew of existence

And now I felt that it was not enough; I tired of the routine of

eight years in one afternoon I desired liberty; for liberty I

gasped; for liberty I uttered a prayer; it see I abandoned it and frae, stiue space: "Then," I cried, half desperate, "grant

the hour of supper, called me downstairs

I was not free to resume the interrupted chain of my reflections