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Jane Eyre

Charlotte Brontë

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ebc0018. Charlotte Brontë: Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre

Charlotte Brontë

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Charlotte Brontë                                                                                                       ElecBook Classics
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Contents
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PREFACE ................................................................................................6
Chapter I ................................................................................................10
Chapter II...............................................................................................17
Chapter III .............................................................................................26
Chapter IV..............................................................................................38
Chapter V...............................................................................................58
Chapter VI..............................................................................................75
Chapter VII............................................................................................85
Chapter VIII...........................................................................................97
Chapter IX ...........................................................................................108
Chapter X.............................................................................................119
Chapter XI ...........................................................................................134
Chapter XII..........................................................................................155
Chapter XIII ........................................................................................169
Chapter XIV.........................................................................................184
Chapter XV..........................................................................................201
Chapter XVI.........................................................................................218
Chapter XVII.......................................................................................231
Chapter XVIII......................................................................................258
Chapter XIX ........................................................................................278

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Charlotte Brontë                                                                                                       ElecBook Classics
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Chapter XX..........................................................................................292
Chapter XXI ........................................................................................312
Chapter XXII.......................................................................................341
Chapter XXIII .....................................................................................351
Chapter XXIV .....................................................................................365
Chapter XXV.......................................................................................390
Chapter XXVI .....................................................................................407
Chapter XXVII....................................................................................422
Chapter XXVIII ..................................................................................457
Chapter XXIX.....................................................................................480
Chapter XXX.......................................................................................496
Chapter XXXI .....................................................................................509
Chapter XXXII....................................................................................520
Chapter XXXIII..................................................................................536
Chapter XXXIV ..................................................................................553
Chapter XXXV....................................................................................583
Chapter XXXVI ..................................................................................598
Chapter XXXVII.................................................................................611
Chapter XXXVIII—CONCLUSION................................................638

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PREFACE

preface to the first edition of Jane Eyre being

unnecessary, I gave none: this second edition demands a

few words both of acknowledgment and miscellaneous

remark.

My thanks are due in three quarters.

To the Public, for the indulgent ear it has inclined to a plain tale

with few pretensions.

To the Press, for the fair field its honest suffrage has opened to

an obscure aspirant. To my Publishers, for the aid their tact, their

energy, their practical sense and frank liberality have afforded an

unknown and unrecommended Author.

The Press and the Public are but vague personifications for me,

and I must thank them in vague terms; but my Publishers are

definite: so are certain generous critics who have encouraged me

as only large-hearted and high-minded men know how to

encourage a struggling stranger; to them, i.e., to my Publishers

and the select Reviewers, I say cordially, Gentlemen, I thank you

from my heart.

Having thus acknowledged what I owe those who have aided

and approved me, I turn to another class; a small one, so far as I

know, but not, therefore, to be overlooked. I mean the timorous or

carping few who doubt the tendency of such books as Jane Eyre: in

whose eyes whatever is unusual is wrong; whose ears detect in

each protest against bigotry—that parent of crime—an insult to

piety, that regent of God on earth. I would suggest to such

doubters certain obvious distinctions; I would remind them of

certain simple truths.

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Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not

religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. To pluck the

mask from the face of the Pharisee, is not to lift an impious hand

to the Crown of Thorns.

These things and deeds are diametrically opposed: they are as

distinct as is vice from virtue. Men too often confound them: they

should not be confounded: appearance should not be mistaken for

truth; narrow human doctrines, that only tend to elate and

magnify a few, should not be substituted for the world-redeeming

creed of Christ. There is—I repeat it—a difference; and it is a

good, and not a bad action to mark broadly and clearly the line of

separation between them.

The world may not like to see these ideas dissevered, for it has

been accustomed to blend them; finding it convenient to make

external show pass for sterling worth—to let white-washed walls

vouch for clean shrines. It may hate him who dares to scrutinise

and expose—to rase the gilding, and show base metal under it—to

penetrate the sepulchre, and reveal charnel relics: but hate as it

will, it is indebted to him.

Ahab did not like Micaiah, because he never prophesied good

concerning him, but evil; probably he liked the sycophant son of

Chenaannah better; yet might Ahab have escaped a bloody death,

had he but stopped his ears to flattery, and opened them to faithful

counsel.

There is a man in our own days whose words are not framed to

tickle delicate ears: who, to my thinking, comes before the great

ones of society, much as the son of Imlah came before the throned

Kings of Judah and Israel; and who speaks truth as deep, with a

power as prophet-like and as vital—a mien as dauntless and as

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daring. Is the satirist of “Vanity Fair” admired in high places? I

cannot tell; but I think if some of those amongst whom he hurls

the Greek fire of his sarcasm, and over whom he flashes the levin-

brand of his denunciation, were to take his warnings in time—they

or their seed might yet escape a fatal Rimoth-Gilead.

Why have I alluded to this man? I have alluded to him, Reader,

because I think I see in him an intellect profounder and more

unique than his contemporaries have yet recognised; because I

regard him as the first social regenerator of the day—as the very

master of that working corps who would restore to rectitude the

warped system of things; because I think no commentator on his

writings has yet found the comparison that suits him, the terms

which rightly characterise his talent. They say he is like Fielding:

they talk of his wit, humour, comic powers. He resembles Fielding

as an eagle does a vulture: Fielding could stoop on carrion, but

Thackeray never does. His wit is bright, his humour attractive, but

both bear the same relation to his serious genius that the mere

lambent sheet-lightning playing under the edge of the summer-

cloud does to the electric death-spark hid in its womb. Finally, I

have alluded to Mr. Thackeray, because to him—if he will accept

the tribute of a total stranger—I have dedicated this second

edition of Jane Eyre.

CURRER BELL.

December 21st, 1847.

NOTE TO THE THIRD EDITION

I avail myself of the opportunity which a third edition of Jane

Eyre affords me, of again addressing a word to the Public, to

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explain that my claim to the title of novelist rests on this one work

alone. If, therefore, the authorship of other works of fiction has

been attributed to me, an honour is awarded where it is not

merited; and consequently, denied where it is justly due.

This explanation will serve to rectify mistakes which may

already have been made, and to prevent future errors.

CURRER BELL.

April 13th, 1848.

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Chapter I

here was no possibility of taking a walk that day. We had

been wandering, indeed, in the leafless shrubbery an hour

in the morning; but since dinner (Mrs. Reed, when there

was no company, dined early) the cold winter wind had brought

with it clouds so sombre, and a rain so penetrating, that further

out-door exercise was now out of the question.

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.

The said Eliza, John, and Georgiana were now clustered round

their mama in the drawing-room: she lay reclined on a sofa by the

fireside, and with her darlings about her (for the time neither

quarrelling nor crying) looked perfectly happy. Me, she had

dispensed from joining the group; saying, “She regretted to be

under the necessity of keeping me at a distance; but that until she

heard from Bessie, and could discover by her own observation,

that I was endeavouring in good earnest to acquire a more

sociable and childlike disposition, a more attractive and sprightly

manner—something lighter, franker, more natural, as it were—she

really must exclude me from privileges intended only for

contented, happy, little children.”

“What does Bessie say I have done?” I asked.

“Jane, I don’t like cavillers or questioners; besides, there is

something truly forbidding in a child taking up her elders in that

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