Quotation from: Jane Eyre

Written by: Charlotte Bronte


This prediction was but half fulfilled: I did not indeed dream of
sorrow, but as little did I dream of joy; for I never slept at all.
With little Adele in my arms, I watched the slumber of childhood
-- so tranquil, so passionless, so innocent -- and waited for the
coming day: all my life was awake and astir in my frame: and as
soon as the sun rose I rose too. I remember Adele clung to me as I
left her: I remember I kissed her as I loosened her little hands
from my neck; and I cried over her with strange emotion, and quitted
her because I feared my sobs would break her still sound repose.
She seemed the emblem of my past life; and he I was now to array
myself to meet, the dread, but adored, type of my unknown future
day.

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