Jane Eyre

by Charlotte Brontë

opprobrium.

fagging;

Fagging = working hard

lips; for never may you, like me, dread to be the instrument of evil to what you wholly love.

empty.” “I have hardly had time yet to enjoy a sense of tranquillity, much less to grow impatient under one of loneliness.” “Very well; I hope you feel the content you express: at any rate, your good sense will tell you that it is too soon yet to yield

thank my Maker, that, in the midst of judgment, he has remembered mercy. I humbly entreat my Redeemer to give me strength to lead henceforth a purer life than I have done hitherto!”