Jane Eyre

by Charlotte Brontë

auditress

interlocutrice;

et j’y tiens,

“That is no answer; or rather it is a very irritating, because a very evasive one.

“I don’t think, sir, you have a right to command me, merely because you are older than I, or because you have seen more of the world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on the use you have made of your time and experience.”

hector

I mentally shake hands with

But I don’t mean to flatter you: if you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.

palliate

enigmatical,

sanctity.

diametrically

Silence composes the nerves; and as an unbroken hush now reigned again through the whole house, I began to feel the return of slumber. But it was not fated that I should sleep that night. A dream had scarcely approached my ear, when it fled affrighted, scared by a marrow-freezing incident enough.

anathemas

salutary

taciturnity:

dissipation,

paroxysm

venerated

torpor,

To prolong doubt was to prolong hope.

Winter snows, I thought, had drifted through that void arch, winter rains beaten in at those hollow casements; for, amidst the drenched piles of rubbish, spring had cherished vegetation: grass and weed grew here and there between the stones and fallen rafters.

vicinage.

cicatrised