“Not a tie links me to any living thing: not a claim do I possess to admittance under any roof in England.Chapter 29 · Jane Eyre · ★★★★☆→
“Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilised by education: they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.Chapter 29 · Narrator · ★★★★☆→
“Some of the best people that ever lived have been as destitute as I am; and if you are a Christian, you ought not to consider poverty a crime.Chapter 29 · Jane Eyre · ★★★★☆→
“You are mistaken in supposing me a beggar. I am no beggar; any more than yourself or your young ladies.Chapter 29 · Jane Eyre · ★★★★☆→
“Rather an unusual physiognomy; certainly, not indicative of vulgarity or degradation.Chapter 29 · St John Rivers · ★★★☆☆→
“He was young—perhaps from twenty-eight to thirty—tall, slender; his face riveted the eye; it was like a Greek face, very pure in outline: quite a straight, classic nose; quite an Athenian mouth and chin.Chapter 29 · Narrator · ★★★☆☆→
“The want of house or brass (by which I suppose you mean money) does not make a beggar in your sense of the word.Chapter 29 · Jane Eyre · ★★★☆☆→
“I lay on it motionless as a stone; and to have torn me from it would have been almost to kill me.Chapter 29 · Narrator · ★★★☆☆→
“I am an orphan, the daughter of a clergyman. My parents died before I could know them. I was brought up a dependent; educated in a charitable institution.Chapter 29 · Jane Eyre · ★★★☆☆→