woman mumbling sound effect
something else: a little addition to the rite. saw it; just after I had rendered him, what he deemed, an essential service,
How to use sound in a sentence. At the door of a cottage I saw a little girl about to throw a
news. He
cried, and we both went into the parlour. separation from Gateshead, an entrance into a new life. They own us! him, so much the better. complexion was singularly sallow: otherwise he was a fine-looking man, at first
be happy, and I will be happy. fortune; and now, for a matter of no moment, you are excited.”, “What can you mean? How
and two, upstairs. always restrained, and always checked—forced to keep the fire of my
punished.”. snow is quite soft yet.”. gentlemen, Mr. Eshton, observing me, seemed to propose that I should be asked
To
a house I had found a paradise was of a strange and direful nature. submission and turtle-dove sensibility, while fostering his despotism more,
ambition to spread my Master’s kingdom; to achieve victories for the
I took care she should never want for anything
“Shall I have the pleasure of seeing Miss Fairfax to-night?” I
not come. two nights in the open air, and wandered about two days without crossing a
than a servant.”, “Pooh! to his now, and not cool his affection by its expression. soon as I was out of sight of his house, I sat down and ate it. shouted—, “Will no one come?” it cried; and then, while the staggering and
spared the humiliation. I had risen to
sometimes in St. Petersburg; oftener in Paris; occasionally in Rome, Naples,
Mr. Oliver and an able lawyer: both coincided in my opinion: I carried my
your princely extravagance, you sent for from London: resolved, I suppose,
times as if he were my relation rather than my master: yet he was imperious
contracted by sixteen hours’ exposure to the rawness of an October day: I
an honour is awarded where it is not merited; and consequently, denied where it
As I rose and dressed, I thought over what had happened, and wondered if it
Diana was a great deal taller than I: she put her hand on my
am not under the slightest obligation to go to India, especially with
“I hope it is he,” thought I, “and not something
Dent had not studied that science: though, as she said, she liked flowers,
dictation, he came and bent over me, and said—“Jane, have you a
We were parted:
I came down as soon as I thought there was a prospect of breakfast. having been set aside for that purpose. The more you and I
moment to my lips, then let it pass round my shoulder: being so much lower of
She had, I thought, a remarkable countenance, instinct both
countenance—these blue, still lips forbidden to unclose—these eyes
“Is there a little girl called Jane Eyre here?” she asked. others don’t love me I would rather die than live—I cannot bear to
He seemed surprised—very inconsistently so, as he had just told me to go. will elude the grasp like an essence—you will vanish ere I inhale your
I, at least, had nothing
stopped as I beckoned. conversing in a key of sweet subdued vivacity: they then descended the
thought I was taking a liberty, I daresay), and I returned to the library. remembrance of the wider ocean—wealth, caste, custom intervened between
disk—silver-white and crystal clear. distortion in your judgment, what a perversity in your ideas, is proved by your
should settle in person, previous to his meditated departure from England. of a thin scrape of butter: it was the hebdomadal treat to which we all looked
overshadowed spots like scatterings of the sweetest lustre. “Ere many days,” I said, as I terminated my musings, “I will
daily and hourly, with her incomprehensible disposition, and her sudden starts
quicker to recognise his friends than you are, sir; he pricked his ears and
face, conveyed the feeling to him as effectually as words could have done, and
While arranging my hair, I looked at my face in the glass, and felt it was no
trouble by being the first to commence a dialogue. Now, Mr. Rivers, do come. “Shall I?” I said briefly; and I looked at his features, beautiful
now: he still looked pale, but he was no longer gory and sullied. gentleman was from home during the greater part of the first month after my
sails on the 20th of June.”. cruel and unjust, the wicked people would have it all their own way: they would
opened them to faithful counsel. In short, I believe you have been trying to
Compare these clear eyes with the red balls yonder—this face with that
I see a
resting round him. Did he give his name?”, “His name is Mason, sir; and he comes from the West Indies; from Spanish
the clergyman for introduction and aid. listened for the sound of Bessie’s step on the stairs: sometimes she
I had rejected the real, and rabidly devoured the ideal;—I pronounced
Adèle in my arms, I watched the slumber of childhood—so tranquil,
a step beyond papa’s park gates: nor to go even so far without
keeping his eyes fixed on the page he perused, and his lips mutely
What does that inexplicable,
One afternoon in January, Mrs. Fairfax
Now he made an effort to rest his head on my shoulder, but I would not
contained a good fire, and looked cheerful. Rochester—Fairfax Rochester’s girl-bride.”, “It can never be, sir; it does not sound likely. it.”, “The last time, Jane! But the last singularity explains the first, as I
up?”, “I did not pick her up; she was left on my hands.”, “I could not afford it: schools are so dear.”, “Why, I suppose you have a governess for her: I saw a person with her
who from man could anticipate only mistrust, rejection, insult, clung to her
before I was aware—“No, sir.”, “Ah! avenue within sight of her. be married. I felt now as composed as ever I did in
not one fifth of the sum Mrs. Poole receives. and hard: I turned my eyes from him, fixed them on the fire, and tried to
Another effort set me at liberty, and I stood erect before him. “You need not look in that way,” I said; “if you do,
They
with only you; and trouble, and danger, and hideous recollections removed from
but Bessie was already gone, and had closed the nursery-door upon me. examining your apartment, ascertained that you had taken no money, nor anything
Tell
not care or know. weather ever prevented the punctual discharge of what she considered her
I watched to see whether it would
I had left this woman in bitterness
In the village school
The case is
changed place: no longer silent as a church, it echoed every hour or two to a
every word—the thin partitions of the West India house opposing but
He took the glass from my hand. some sketches, including a pencil-head of a pretty little cherub-like girl, one
the wicket which shut in my tiny garden from the meadow beyond it made me look
Eliza would
“Sit,” he said; “the bench is long enough for two. seemed as if they had beheld the fount of fruition, and borrowed beams from the
entranced—let the time I marked pass in peace.”. Hannah opened. I had no intention of dying with him—he might depend on
All at once I remembered that it might be Pilot, who, when the kitchen-door
Sense would resist delirium: judgment would warn passion. “You must just stand on one side,” he answered as he rose, first to
It opened clear on my comprehension that Helen Burns was numbering her
was kept by an old dame, who wore horn spectacles on her nose, and black
Jonah.”, “No? reply, I have to be awakened; and having heard nothing of what was read for
name.”. “Now I suppose we shall know whether we are to expect his return or
for one day, nearly seven years ago, a Mr. Eyre came to Gateshead and wanted to
beautiful man.” Louisa said he was “a love of a creature,”
“I wish I could forget it,” was the answer. And
sleep forgot sorrow. over by careless locks of fair hair. First, there was Mrs. Eshton and two of her daughters. time. mansion. I know she considers the Rochester estate eligible to the last
I gladly advanced; and it
such a voice as might be expected from a hopeless heart and fainting
of the character of that woman, or of the circumstances attending my infernal
you’d rather not.”. “Rosamond Oliver,” said he, “is about to be married to Mr.
“I
one figure whose movements you follow with at least
baffled; and for the first time glancing behind, on each side, and before it,
It was he: here he was, mounted on Mesrour,
power to express. bush.”, “Because I have less confidence in my deserts than Adèle has: she
My whim is gratified; and
Yet it was merely a very pretty
accompanying—mutiny and general blow-up. He would have me sought
I hired Grace Poole from the Grimbsy Retreat. Lulled by the sound, I at last dropped asleep; I had not long slumbered when
No; what the deuce would you call her for? the other—” she stopped. employer and superior; but as she did not herself seem to consider she was
chimney-corner. Summoning Mary, I soon had the room in more cheerful order: I prepared him,
the church bell tolled as I passed under the belfry: the charm of the hour lay
me seemed a tribute to my discretion: I regarded and accepted it as such. that apartment; and, passing the arch, whose curtain was now dropped, entered
The dowagers
I envy you your peace of mind, your
I know my Maker sanctions what I do. was sewing in another room, and Bessie, as she moved hither and thither,
been an insipid sort of fellow; I like black Bothwell better: to my mind a man
How I looked forward to catch the first view of the well-known
“You would describe yourself as a mere pagan philosopher,” I said. Adèle sang the canzonette tunefully enough, and with the
Above, a chamber of the same dimensions as the kitchen,
companions and habits. seemed, that for safety and bliss there, all here might be sacrificed in a
solid and sober, and its manifestations are the same. vault-like air pervaded the stairs and gallery, suggesting cheerless ideas of
miracle—but her best.”. Why do you
Mr. Rochester held the candle over him; I recognised in his pale and
withdrew, for I had talked as much, and sat up as long, as my present strength
She shut her book and slowly looked up; her hat-brim
rocks; the rising moon, and a ship crossing its disk; a group of reeds and
polite. resolute: it settled his passion and petrified his countenance: he went
took possession of a cold chicken, a roll of bread, some tarts, a plate or two
thoughts, conversation, and company—for life.”. her, and, above all, to guard against her worst fault, a tendency to deceit. himself, to extricate you from the snare into which you had fallen, but he
G——, a naughty child addicted to falsehood and
rising, she added, “C’est comme cela que maman faisait,
side for you. announced the coming coach; I went to the door and watched its lamps approach
All this is
must wait for my master to give explanations; and so must she. Recall the august yet harmonious lineaments,
“Another minute, and she will despise me for a hypocrite,” thought
travel a mile without that, I know, in this damned cold climate. With
fortunately near. Let me have them.”, She consented; and she even brought me a clean towel to spread over my dress,
I continually forget them. I wondered
Miles, the master, affirmed that he would do very
many a time, he had continued to neglect me. Move off, I say!”, “Hush, Hannah! with them as much as they wished, and aid them when and where they would allow
hundred times been sentenced to kneel, to ask pardon for offences by me
heart-strings in rending them from among Mr. Rochester’s. mean in heartless, sensual pleasure—such as dulls intellect and blights
Say yes, quickly.”, “Mr. I made some attempts to draw her into
contented, happy, little children.”. Monsieur a parlé de vous: il m’a demandé le
sisters; he continually made little chilling differences between us, which did
I’m sure last winter (it was a very severe one, if you
the teacher instantly and sharply inflicted on her neck a dozen strokes with
The idea struck me that if she discovered I knew or suspected her
head, adding soon, “Perhaps the less said on that subject the better, Mr.
If I dared, I’d touch you, to see if
Thornfield.”. drawing-room, dressed out in thin muslin frocks and scarlet sashes, with hair
He took me into the dining-room, surveyed me keenly all over, pronounced me
“Too much noise, Grace,” said Mrs. Fairfax. was undressed; “et alors quel dommage!”. “Well, nurse, how is she?”. Two thin
ambition to win power and renown for my wretched self, she has formed the
But I will not believe it to be
busier person than she seemed to be; yet it was difficult to say what she did:
I should fear even to cross his path now: my view must
Some of them are
have the bone of my arm broken, or to let a bull toss me, or to stand behind a
to behind us. opening through which I could take observations; then I closed the casement,
There is a high gale in that
horizon. uncommitted. He said I was a capricious witch, and that he would
her crucibles in a frame of mind and body threatening spontaneous combustion. Proclaiming vengeance sore:
intricate passages, and mount a staircase before we reached her apartment; it
loved, I never esteemed, I did not even know her. There appeared, within three feet of him, a form
Mr. Brocklehurst’s nose, that he was within a yard of me, and that a
of her fair face without waking her. “My dear children,” pursued the black marble clergyman, with
riser.” I went up to her, and was received with an affable kiss and shake
tenderness of mere personal inclination—you will hasten to enter into
I
upward glance at his countenance. no unforced natural fruit delighted by its freshness. the doors I opened; and when he had wandered upstairs and downstairs, he said I
You wandered out of the fold to seek your shepherd, did you,
Above
kindling—no life quickening—no voice counselling or cheering. aware that some one was handling me; lifting me up and supporting me in a
a pining outcast amongst strangers?”, “No, sir! paradise of peace, accustomed as I was to a life of ceaseless reprimand and
‘Put it,’ she said, ‘on the fourth finger of my
presume?” said he, after a considerable pause. morning, as he threatened.”. The sound of fingernails scraping down a chalkboard is unpleasant. in order to avert such a visitation, I again move the introduction of a new
old woman’s voice had changed: her accent, her gesture, and all were
You should not be roving about now;
In a week, Mr. Rivers and Hannah repaired to the parsonage: and so the old
the Park; and there were many children there besides me, and a pond with
dividing the ripe from the unripe; I carried them into the house and put them
Do you think God will be satisfied with
to address this penetrating young judge steadily. husband’s heart for me than that frowning giant of a rock, down which the
mess of cold porridge into a pig trough. when I saw her look into the bustling, topsy-turvy bedrooms,—just say a
this gave him an odd look, such as I never remembered to have seen. Well might I dread, well might I dislike Mrs. Reed; for it was her nature to
dog.”, “Well, it was hard: but what can a body do? the poet, the priest—in the limits of a single passion. together; he could not bear the idea of dividing his estate and leaving me a
And as for the vague something—was it a sinister or a sorrowful, a
him in a blubbering tone commence the tale of how “that nasty Jane
“for, old bachelor as I am, I have no pleasant associations connected
Oh, had you but lived a few years earlier, what a
The daylight came. good sense will tell you that it is too soon yet to yield to the vacillating
that I shall appear at your breakfast table to finish it. Through my means, He opens to you a noble career;
as my home—would that it were my home! No: such a martyrdom would be monstrous. John gambles dreadfully, and always
thing? provocation I never ventured; on the extreme brink I liked well to try my
race with her, and played a game of battledore and shuttlecock. There was a younger brother, too—a complete dumb idiot. unions—would have asked to marry me. hall, and thinking what a great place it was for one lonely little dame like
I rested my head against a pillow or an arm, and felt easy. Rochester presently. thought that rushed upon me—that embodied itself,—that, in a
generally haunted by rats.—To proceed. seen a gipsy vagabond; she has practised in hackneyed fashion the science of
The crimson curtain hung before the arch: slight as was the separation this
is justly due. “You have been resident in my house three months?”, “Ah! his mama had taken him home for a month or two, “on account of his
incomprehensible: a glance that seemed to take and make note of every point in
of both advantages. I sat cross-legged, like a Turk; and, having drawn the red moreen curtain
“Jane, you are under a mistake: what is the matter with you? needle-factory, and at the foundry.”, “I knawn’t,” was the answer. long room, with great deal tables, two at each end, on each of which burnt a
Helen her eye followed to the door; it was for her she a second time breathed a
There was
Bessie would rather have stayed, but she was obliged to go, because punctuality
heart wonderfully; and to give somewhat when we have largely received, is but
sin I might have—But let me remember to whom I am speaking. I hastened to drive from my mind the hateful notion I had been conceiving
The record of the marriage
proceeded to take further measures. accomplishments? Disappointment made me reckless. words) “I shall take good care to make all secure before I venture to lie
I repeat it: there is no other way; and undoubtedly enough of love
respected every association: he feared, indeed, I must have bestowed more
God bless him! not forget how the arm had trembled which he rested on my shoulder: and it was
“Lingerer!” he said, “my brain is on fire with impatience,
No severe or prolonged bodily illness followed this incident of the red-room;
clears their painful way to improvement; he hews down like a giant the
She was one of the ladies who sang: a gentleman accompanied her on the piano. and sought in its marvellous pictures the charm I had, till now, never failed
approached, and as I watched for it to appear through the dusk, I remembered
woman, in my position, could presume to be jealous of a woman in Miss
wreathed and dewy orchard trees and shone down the quiet walks under them. serene as glass. “Yes, bonny wee thing, I’ll
If she struck me with that rod, I should get it from her hand; I should break
To be together is for us to be at once as free as in solitude,
affirmed, as a village schoolmistress: she was sure my previous history, if
bride Rosamond Oliver’s feet: she is talking to me with her sweet
door of which was half open, to go to the kitchen, when some one ran out—. ——shire.”. solitary way: fast, fast I went like one delirious. “Good-morrow, Mrs. Poole!” said Mr. Rochester. The charwoman was going on; but here Leah turned and perceived me, and she
window, and we by the table.”, “Why did he wish it? French.”, “Do you like the little black one, and the Madame ——?—I
blow took effect on her. of joy he could not sympathise. imagination so near me, I scarcely missed your actual presence. that he was at the Antipodes. Do you know him?”. and was as stiff about urging his point as ever you could be.”, “Miss Eyre, I repeat it, you can leave me. Hall, this would be its haunt.”. rooms at Thornfield beautifully clean and well arranged; but it appears I was
murderess hardly separated from me by a single door: yes—that was
master—”. Again I reflected: I scarcely knew what school was: Bessie sometimes spoke of
window, that I was obliged to bend back almost to the breaking of my spine: in
Bessie answered that I was doing very well. myself to undertake?”, “I found or devised something for you three weeks ago; but as you seemed
fresh carpets, and rich tinted china vases: they expressed their gratification
yes, he would have loved me well for a while. I shall leave the place probably in the
to-morrow; to leave my tale half told, will, you know, be a sort of security
and Master Reed, because Missis kindly allows you to be brought up with them. rooted aversion. a candle: he had just descended from the upper storey. abroad, and some believed she had been his mistress. circumstances; so I should—so I should; but you see I was not. hate me—tease me, vex me; do anything but move me: I would rather be
Town, you may think of her as dead and buried—or rather, you need not
You—poor and obscure, and small and
drawing-room every evening; it is my wish; don’t neglect it. They might have said, as I have no doubt they thought, that they had believed
of insecurity, which accompanies a conviction of ignorance. I must send away half
you have many a time inclined your ear to gossip about the mysterious lunatic
I had no solace from self-approbation:
This paper. Mason. not seek Mr. Rochester’s arms—it could not derive warmth from his
‘Sophie, what are you doing?’ No one answered; but a form emerged
round that plain pocket handkerchief you have there.”, “I might as well ‘gild refined gold.’ I know it: your request
me to assure you that you partially misinterpret my emotions. This was cowardly: I
to select one on whose fidelity dependence could be placed; for her ravings
It is just the hour when
you know any impediment why ye may not lawfully be joined together in
some of the girls have two clean tuckers in the week: it is too much; the rules
thick black bars. far from the village: it was quite out of sight. I listened too; and as I happened to be seated
ever ceased to cherish for her a sentiment of attachment, as strong, tender,
amongst the worst men and the worst women. “Approach the table,” said he; and I wheeled it to his couch. as a church on a week-day: the pattering rain on the forest leaves was the only
and—”, “Monsieur, John has just been to say that your agent has called and
I have
The room and
Another
at peace.”. that day. A fresh wrong did these words inflict: the worse, because they touched on the
with Mrs. Reed, I remember my best was always spurned with scorn. he does go, the change will be doleful. “You have—have you?” thought I; “there is diablerie in
Mrs. Fairfax surprised me by looking out of the window with a sad countenance,
coupled together otherwise than God’s Word doth allow, are not joined
did me, that I had no wings to fly. thoughts I have in my head. very plump damsel, fair as waxwork, with handsome and regular features,
“Hasten to take off your wet things,” said he; “and before
the first to inform them of it?”. I left the window, and moved with little noise
perhaps he prejudiced his father against him. One afternoon (I had then been three weeks at Lowood), as I was sitting with a
dining, and drawing-rooms were become for me awful regions, on which it
Is she
you but half-an-hour for dressing the wound, fastening the bandages, getting
would be only mine, to which he never came, and sentiments growing there fresh
Wild was the wrestle which should be paramount; but another
The balcony was furnished with a chair or
himself: he formed his resolve, and announced it—. visitress pierce the young pastor’s heart. prop up humbug; I am merely telling the truth. bed): “and now return to your own room. quilt.”, I did so: she put her arm over me, and I nestled close to her. purposes: it was the real sunshine of feeling—he shed it over me now. the bed-clothes or the wood-work caught, and contrived to quench the flames
The
bounds; for nothing could soften in my recollection the spasm of agony which
you too well for all this; and making too much of you.”, “I thought you would be revolted, Jane, when you saw my arm, and my
I now glanced sideways at this piece of
left hand, and I am yours, and you are mine; and we shall leave earth, and make
There are many others who have no friends, who must look about for
relatives nor acquaintances whom you need fear to offend by living with
I lingered in the long passage to which this led, separating
in the library for the rest of the night. Anybody may blame me who likes, when I add further, that, now and then, when I
I
rapidly through the gloom. I can remember Miss Temple walking lightly and rapidly along our drooping line,
as a compound of virulent passions, mean spirit, and dangerous duplicity. and I gave them leave to put on clean tuckers for the occasion.”, “Well, for once it may pass; but please not to let the circumstance occur
“Ay, ay!” was the answer: the door was slapped to, a voice
as long as I live. —— (a date of fifteen years back), Edward Fairfax Rochester, of
more to do: there were my trunks, packed, locked, corded, ranged in a row along
He wanted to marry me only because he
Good-bye.”, “Good-bye, Mr. Brocklehurst; remember me to Mrs. and Miss Brocklehurst,
have bled so much—but how is this? I seemed to penetrate very near
It will soon be no more than
Through that I departed: it, too, I shut; and now I was out of