Quotation from: Jane Eyre

Written by: Charlotte Bronte


After supper, he began to ask me many questions, of where I had
been, what I had been doing, how I had found him out; but I gave
him only very partial replies: it was too late to enter into
particulars that night. Besides, I wished to touch no deep-thrilling
chord -- to open no fresh well of emotion in his heart: my sole
present aim was to cheer him. Cheered, as I have said, he was:
and yet but by fits. If a moment's silence broke the conversation,
he would turn restless, touch me, then say, "Jane."

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