Quotation from: Jane Eyre

Written by: Charlotte Bronte


Tea ready, I was going to approach the table; but she desired me
to sit still, quite in her old peremptory tones. I must be served
at the fireside, she said; and she placed before me a little round
stand with my cup and a plate of toast, absolutely as she used to
accommodate me with some privately purloined dainty on a nursery
chair: and I smiled and obeyed her as in bygone days.


She wanted to know if I was happy at Thornfield Hall, and what sort
of a person the mistress was; and when I told her there was only
a master, whether he was a nice gentleman, and if I liked him. I
told her he was rather an ugly man, but quite a gentleman; and
that he treated me kindly, and I was content. Then I went on to
describe to her the gay company that had lately been staying at the
house; and to these details Bessie listened with interest: they
were precisely of the kind she relished.

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