Chapter 23 A SPLENDID Midsummer shone over England: skies so pure, suns so radiant as were then seen in long s...
Chapter 22 MR ROCHESTER had given me but one week's leave of absence: yet a month elapsed before I quitted Gat...
Chapter 21 PRESENTIMENTS are strange things! and so are sympathies; and so are signs, and the three combined mak...
Chapter 20 I HAD forgotten to draw my curtain, which l usually did, and also to let down my window-blind. The...
Chapter 19 THE library looked tranquil enough as I entered it, and the sibyl — if sibyl she were — was seat...
Chapter 18 MERRY days were these at Thornfield Hall; and busy days too: how different from the first three mont...
Chapter 17 A WEEK passed, and no news arrived of Mr Rochester: ten days, and still he did not come. Mrs Fairf...
Chapter 16 I BOTH wished and feared to see Mr Rochester on the day which followed this sleepless night: I want...
Chapter 15 MR ROCHESTER did, on a future occasion, explain it. It was one afternoon, when he chanced to meet m...
Chapter 14 FOR several subsequent days I saw little of Mr Rochester. In the mornings he seemed much engaged wit...
Chapter 13 MR ROCHESTER, it seems, by the surgeon's orders, went to bed early that night; nor did he rise soon...
Chapter 12 THE promise of a smooth career, which my first calm introduction to Thornfield Hall seemed to pledge,...
Chapter 11 A NEW Chapter in a novel is something like a new scene in a play; and when I draw up the curtain...
Chapter 10 HITHERTO I have recorded in detail the events of my insignificant cxistence: to the first ten years ...
Chapter 9 BUT the privations, or rather the hardships, of Lowood lessened. Spring drew on — she was indeed alr...
Chapter 8 ERE the half-hour ended, five o'clock struck; school was dismissed, and all were gone into the refecto...
Chapter 7 MY first quarter at Lowood seemed an age, and not the golden age either; it comprised an irksome str...
Chapter 6 The next day commenced as before, getting up and dressing by rushlight; but this morning we were obli...
Chapter 5 FIVE o'clock had hardly struck on the morning of the nineteenth of January, when Bessie brought a can...
Chapter 4 FROM my discourse with Mr Lloyd, and from the above reported conference between Bessie and Abbot, I g...
