... keeping me at a distance; but that until she heard from Bessie, and could discover by her own observation, that I was endeavouring in good earnest to acquire a more sociable and childlike disposition, a more attractive and sprightly manner - something... Jane Eyre - Page xxivde Charlotte Brontë - 1893Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
| Charlotte Brontë - 1850 - 500 pages
...more attractive and sprightly manner — something lighter, franker, more natural, as it were — she really must exclude me from privileges intended only for contented, happy little children." I was glad of it. I never liked long walks, especially on chilly afternoons: dreadful to me was the... | |
| 1859 - 684 pages
...more attractive and sprightly manner — something lighter, franker, more natural, as it were— she ascertain the principles of the real to determine...science. The principles of the real are given us in donel" I asked. " Jane, I don't like cavilers or questioners : besides, there is something truly forbidding... | |
| Charlotte Brontë - 1864 - 506 pages
...more attractive and sprightly manner — something lighter, franker, more natural, as it were — she really must exclude me from privileges intended only...children." " What does Bessie say I have done ? " I asked. is something' truly forbidding in a ghild taking up her elders m that manner. Be seated somewhere ;... | |
| Charlotte Brontë - 1885 - 410 pages
...more attractive and sprightly manner — something lighter, franker, more natural, as it were — she really must exclude me from privileges intended only...say I have done ? " I asked. " Jane, I don't like cavilers or questioners : besides, there i* » Jinething truly forbidding in a child taking up her... | |
| Charlotte Brontë - 1890 - 494 pages
...more attractive and sprightly manner — something lighter, franker, more natural, as it were— she really must exclude me from privileges intended only...Bessie say I have done?" I asked. "Jane, I don't like cavilers or questioners: besides, there is something truly forbidding in a child taking up 9 her elders... | |
| Charlotte Brontë - 1897 - 616 pages
...more attractive and sprightly manner — something lighter, franker, more natural, as it were — she really must exclude me from privileges intended only...What does Bessie say I have done ? " I asked. " Jane, 1 don't like cavillers or questioners ; besides, there is something truly forbidding in a child taking... | |
| Charlotte Brontë - 1905 - 450 pages
...more attractive and sprightly manner — something lighter, franker, more natural, as it were — she really must exclude me from privileges intended only...that manner. Be seated somewhere ; and until you** oan speak pleasantly, remain silent." A small breakfast-room adjoined the drawingroom ; I slipped in... | |
| Anthony George Purdy - 1992 - 220 pages
...disposition, a more attractive and sprightly manner something lighter, franker, more natural, as it were - she really must exclude me from privileges intended only for contented, happy little children.3* Jane's crime is that she is insufficiently 'childlike'. That she must 'acquire' a 'more... | |
| Gavriel Reisner - 2003 - 286 pages
...acquire a more sociable and childlike disposition, a more attractive and sprightly manner . . . she really must exclude me from privileges intended only for contented, happy, little children. (1:5) Her emotional frigidity matched by an indifference to sequential logic, Mrs. Reed insists on... | |
| Wordsworth - 2005 - 1310 pages
...a more attractive and sprighdy manner - something lighter, franker, more natural, as it were - she wouldn't understand the hint, but followed me to...went to lay my bonnet, and importuned me in a whisper diere is somediing truly forbidding in a child taking up her elders in that manner. Be seated somewhere;... | |
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