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" Here, leaning over the banister, I cried out suddenly, and without at all deliberating on my words - 'They are not fit to associate with me.' Mrs Reed was rather a stout woman; but, on hearing this strange and audacious declaration, she ran nimbly up... "
Jane Eyre - Page 32
by Charlotte Brontë - 1890
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Christian Pamphlets, Volume 9

English language - 1859 - 684 pages
...one syllable during the remainder of the day. " What would Uncle Reed say to you if he were alive V am Park?" "My lily-flower, you are right now as always."...Eshton, not hearing or not heeding this dictum, join gpoke out of me over which I had no control. " What 1" said Mrs. Reed, under her breath : her usually...
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Life and works of Charlotte Brontë and her sisters, Volume 1

Charlotte Brontë - 1872 - 520 pages
...and vowing I had burst his nose. I had indeed levelled at that prominent feature as hard a blow as my knuckles could inflict ; and when I saw that either...Reed under her breath : her usually cold composed grey eye became troubled with a look like fear ; she took her hand from my arm, and gazed at me as...
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Jane Eyre

Charlotte Brontë - Authors, English - 1893 - 372 pages
...flown at him like a mad cat: he was stopped rather harshly— " Don't talk to me about her, John : 1 told you not to go near her; she is not worthy of...Reed under her breath : her usually cold composed grey eye became troubled with a look like fear; she took her hand from my arm, and gazed at me as if...
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Novels of the Sisters Brontë: Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë

Charlotte Brontë - 1905 - 450 pages
...and vowing I had burst his nose. I had, indeed, levelled at that prominent feature as hard a blow as my knuckles could inflict ; and when I saw that either...Reed, under her breath ; her usually cold, composed grey eye became troubled with a look like fear ; she took her hand from my arm, and gazed at me as...
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The Novels of the Sisters Brontë ...: Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë

Charlotte Brontë - 1905 - 356 pages
...flown at him like a mad cat : he was stopped rather harshly — " Don't talk to me about her, John : 1 told you not to go near her ; she is not worthy of...Reed under her breath : her usually cold composed grey eye became troubled with a look like fear ; she took her hand from my arm, and gazed at me as...
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Dreams of Authority: Freud and the Fictions of the Unconscious

Ronald R. Thomas - Literary Criticism - 1990 - 324 pages
...her to "utter one syllable" (23). Jane cannot bear this unjust prohibition; she challenges Mrs. Reed "as if my tongue pronounced words without my will consenting to their utterance: 154 Capitalizing the Unconscious something spoke out of me over which I had no control" (23). The whole...
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A Dialogue of Voices: Feminist Literary Theory and Bakhtin

Karen Ann Hohne, Helen Wussow - Feminist literary criticism - 1994 - 234 pages
...text and notes by page number. 13. During one of her confrontations with Mrs. Reed, Jane tells us that "it seemed as if my tongue pronounced words without...something spoke out of me over which I had no control" (23). Throughout the second of these outbursts, Jane reports that she "thrilled with ungovernable excitement"...
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A Dialogue of Voices: Feminist Literary Theory and Bakhtin

Karen Ann Hohne, Helen Wussow - Feminist literary criticism - 1994 - 234 pages
...notes by page number. 1 1. During one of her confrontations with Mrs. Reed, Jane tells us that "ir seemed as if my tongue pronounced words without my...something spoke out of me over which I had no control" (23l. Throughout the second of these outbursts, Jane reports that she "thrilled with ungovernable excitement"...
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The Erotics of Talk: Women's Writing and Feminist Paradigms

Carla Kaplan - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 251 pages
...impossibility. When Jane speaks back as a child, her action is underscored as other-worldly: "it seems as if my tongue pronounced words without my will consenting...something spoke out of me over which I had no control" (60). "The fact is, I was a trifle beside myself; or rather out of myself, as the French would say,"...
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The Bronte Sisters

Charlotte Brontë, Anne Brontë, Emily Brontë - Fiction - 2005 - 1384 pages
...had the greatest inclination to follow up my advantage to purpose; but he was already with his mama. I heard him in a blubbering tone commence the tale...Mrs Reed under her breath: her usually cold composed grey eye became troubled with a look like fear; she took her hand from my arm, and gazed at me as if...
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