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“I’ve resisted all the way: a new thing for me, and a circumstance which greatly strengthened the bad opinion Bessie and Miss Abbot were disposed to entertain of me.” ~ Jane

‘Take her away to the red-room, and lock her in there.’ ~ Mrs. Reed

‘You have no business to take our books; you are a dependent, mamma says; you have no money; your father left you none; you ought to beg, and not to live here with gentlemen’s children like us, and eat the same meals we do, and wear clothes at our mamma’s expense.’ ~ John Reed

“Each picture told a story; mysterious often to my underdeveloped understanding and imperfect feelings, yet every profoundly interesting”

“There was no possibility of taking a walk that day.”

“I was glad of it; I never liked long walks, especially on chilly afternoons: dreadful to me was the coming home in the raw twilight, with nipped fingers and toes, and a heart saddened by the chidings of Bessie, the nurse, and humbled by the consciousness of my physical inferiority to Eliza, John, and Georgiana Reed.”