Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte 12+

🔖 This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ...We obeyed, as in duty bound; Adele wanted to take a seat on my knee, but she was ordered to amuse herself with Pilot. " You have been resident in my house three months?" " Yes, sir." " And you came from--? " " From Lowood school, in shire." "Ah! a charitable concern.--How long were you there? " " Eight years." " Eight years! you must be tenacious of life. I thought half the time in such a place would have done up any constitution! No wonder you have rather the look of another world. I marvelled where you had got that sort of face. When you came on me in Hay Lane last night I thought unaccountably of fairy tales, and had half a mind to demand whether you had bewitched my horse: I-am not sure yet. Who are your parents? " " I have none." "Nor ever had, I suppose: do you remember them?" " No." " I thought not. And so you were waiting for your people when you sat on that stile? " " For whom, sir?" " For the men in green: it was a proper moonlight evening for them. Did I break through one of your rings, that you spread that damned ice on the causeway? " I shook my head. "The men in green all forsook England a hundred years ago," said I, speaking as s...