Quotation from: Jane Eyre

Written by: Charlotte Bronte


Well did I remember Mrs. Reed's face, and I eagerly sought the
familiar image. It is a happy thing that time quells the longings
of vengeance and hushes the promptings of rage and aversion. I had
left this woman in bitterness and hate, and I came back to her now
with no other emotion than a sort of ruth for her great sufferings,
and a strong yearning to forget and forgive all injuries -- to be
reconciled and clasp hands in amity.


The well-known face was there: stern, relentless as ever -- there
was that peculiar eye which nothing could melt, and the somewhat
raised, imperious, despotic eyebrow. How often had it lowered on me
menace and hate! and how the recollection of childhood's terrors
and sorrows revived as I traced its harsh line now! And yet I
stooped down and kissed her: she looked at me.

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