Quotation from: Jane Eyre

Written by: Charlotte Bronte


Assuming an attitude, she began, "La Ligue des Rats: fable de La
Fontaine." She then declaimed the little piece with an attention
to punctuation and emphasis, a flexibility of voice and an
appropriateness of gesture, very unusual indeed at her age, and
which proved she had been carefully trained.


"Was it your mama who taught you that piece?" I asked.


"Yes, and she just used to say it in this way: 'Qu' avez vous
donc? lui dit un de ces rats; parlez!' She made me lift my hand
-- so -- to remind me to raise my voice at the question. Now shall
I dance for you?"

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