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64 | 345_chapter_24 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Van Helsing reports that he investigated what ships were scheduled to be sailing to Transylvania. He found only one, the Czarina Catherine. Van Helsing and Arthur spoke with the dockmaster, who told them that a "tall man, thin and pale," garbed all in black except for a straw hat, hurriedly booked passage on the ship. ... | [
"This to Jonathan Harker.",
"You are to stay with your dear Madam Mina. We shall go to make our\nsearch--if I can call it so, for it is not search but knowing, and we\nseek confirmation only. But do you stay and take care of her to-day. This is your best and most holiest office. This day nothing can find him\nher... |
65 | 345_chapter_25 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Van Helsing continues his "interviews" with Mina at sunrise and sunset, "to her times of peculiar freedom; when her old self can be manifest without any controlling force subduing or restraining her, or inciting her to action." During one such interview, after signs of a violent internal struggle, Mina implores the men... | [
"_11 October, Evening._--Jonathan Harker has asked me to note this, as he\nsays he is hardly equal to the task, and he wants an exact record kept.",
"I think that none of us were surprised when we were asked to see Mrs.\nHarker a little before the time of sunset. We have of late come to\nunderstand that sunrise a... |
66 | 345_chapter_26 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Van Helsing experiences greater difficulty hypnotizing Mina, because the group, making its way toward Galatz, is drawing nearer to Count Dracula all the time. They do, however, ascertain that "He is close to land: he has left his earth-chest. But he has yet to get on shore. " Time is still, for now, on their side, alt... | [
"_29 October._--This is written in the train from Varna to Galatz. Last\nnight we all assembled a little before the time of sunset. Each of us\nhad done his work as well as he could; so far as thought, and endeavour,\nand opportunity go, we are prepared for the whole of our journey, and\nfor our work when we get to... |
67 | 345_chapter_27 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Van Helsing and Mina approach Castle Dracula, meeting with many superstitious members of the local populace along the way. As they draw ever closer to the vampire's home, Van Helsing discovers that he is unable to hypnotize Mina any longer. Disturbingly, she knows the way through the Borgo Pass to the castle--ostensibl... | [
"_1 November._--All day long we have travelled, and at a good speed. The\nhorses seem to know that they are being kindly treated, for they go\nwillingly their full stage at best speed. We have now had so many\nchanges and find the same thing so constantly that we are encouraged to\nthink that the journey will be an... |
78 | 1260_volume_1,_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The novel begins with the ten-year-old Jane Eyre narrating from the home of the well-off Reed family in Gateshead Hall. Mr. Reed, Jane's uncle, took her into his home after both of her parents died of typhus fever, but he soon died himself. Mrs. Reed was particularly resentful of her husband's favoritism toward Jane an... | [
"There was no possibility of taking a walk that day. We had been\nwandering, indeed, in the leafless shrubbery an hour in the morning; but\nsince dinner (Mrs. Reed, when there was no company, dined early) the cold\nwinter wind had brought with it clouds so sombre, and a rain so\npenetrating, that further out-door ... |
79 | 1260_volume_1,_chapter_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Jane resists physically and verbally as the servants Bessie and Miss Abbot lead her to the red-room, named for the color of its drapery and furniture. The room also contains a miniature portrait of Mr. Reed, who has been dead nine years; his actual body lies in a vault under the Gateshead church. Before they lock her u... | [
"I resisted all the way: a new thing for me, and a circumstance which\ngreatly strengthened the bad opinion Bessie and Miss Abbot were disposed\nto entertain of me. The fact is, I was a trifle beside myself; or rather\n_out_ of myself, as the French would say: I was conscious that a moment's\nmutiny had already re... |
80 | 1260_volume_1,_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Jane wakes up, dimly aware of voices and of someone supporting her. She soon realizes that she is in her bed and sees Bessie and Mr. Lloyd, the apothecary. He gives instructions for Jane's care and departs, and Bessie, more concerned than before over Jane's health, sleeps in the neighboring room in case Jane needs anyt... | [
"The next thing I remember is, waking up with a feeling as if I had had a\nfrightful nightmare, and seeing before me a terrible red glare, crossed\nwith thick black bars. I heard voices, too, speaking with a hollow\nsound, and as if muffled by a rush of wind or water: agitation,\nuncertainty, and an all-predominat... |
81 | 1260_volume_1,_chapter_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Time passes, and Jane regains her strength, but the subject of her unhappiness is never broached, and the Reed family treats her even more poorly than before. One day, Jane challenges Mrs. Reed, questioning what her late husband would think of her behavior. Mrs. Reed punishes Jane for the impertinent question, boxing h... | [
"From my discourse with Mr. Lloyd, and from the above reported conference\nbetween Bessie and Abbot, I gathered enough of hope to suffice as a\nmotive for wishing to get well: a change seemed near,--I desired and\nwaited it in silence. It tarried, however: days and weeks passed: I had\nregained my normal state of ... |
82 | 1260_volume_1,_chapter_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Four days after meeting Mr. Brocklehurst, Jane leaves Gateshead by the 6am coach for Lowood School. When she arrives at the school, she is taken into a dull, grey room for supper and then put to bed in a room filled with other girls. The next day, Jane is introduced to some of the school's daily routines, which consist... | [
"Five o'clock had hardly struck on the morning of the 19th of January,\nwhen Bessie brought a candle into my closet and found me already up and\nnearly dressed. I had risen half-an-hour before her entrance, and had\nwashed my face, and put on my clothes by the light of a half-moon just\nsetting, whose rays streamed... |
83 | 1260_volume_1,_chapter_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | On her second day, Jane learns that life at Lowood School is difficult. The meals are hardly large enough to quell Jane's hunger pangs, and the students are forced to sit through unending sermons. Jane becomes more friendly with Helen and observes as Miss Scatcherd continually berates and even whips Helen, who never ma... | [
"The next day commenced as before, getting up and dressing by rushlight;\nbut this morning we were obliged to dispense with the ceremony of\nwashing; the water in the pitchers was frozen. A change had taken place\nin the weather the preceding evening, and a keen north-east wind,\nwhistling through the crevices of ... |
84 | 1260_volume_1,_chapter_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Jane passes a difficult first quarter at Lowood, with both the snowy weather and strict environment contributing to her misery. After a long absence from the school, Mr. Brocklehurst visits Miss Temple's classroom and instructs her not to indulge the girls in the slightest way; their privations will remind them of the ... | [
"My first quarter at Lowood seemed an age; and not the golden age either;\nit comprised an irksome struggle with difficulties in habituating myself\nto new rules and unwonted tasks. The fear of failure in these points\nharassed me worse than the physical hardships of my lot; though these\nwere no trifles.",
"Dur... |
85 | 1260_volume_1,_chapter_8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | When school is dismissed, Jane falls to the floor, filled with self-pity and shame that all of the students despise her because of Mr. Brocklehurst's false accusations. Helen assures her that everyone actually sympathize with her maltreatment. Jane tells Helen of her aching need to have love from others to survive, but... | [
"Ere the half-hour ended, five o'clock struck; school was dismissed, and\nall were gone into the refectory to tea. I now ventured to descend: it\nwas deep dusk; I retired into a corner and sat down on the floor. The\nspell by which I had been so far supported began to dissolve; reaction\ntook place, and soon, so ov... |
86 | 1260_volume_1,_chapter_9 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | As spring arrives, Lowood becomes a more pleasant place. However, the warmer temperatures and dampness of the neighboring forest are ideal for breeding disease, and more than half the girls at the school fall ill with typhus. The disease is particularly bad because of the neglectful care that the students receive at th... | [
"But the privations, or rather the hardships, of Lowood lessened. Spring\ndrew on: she was indeed already come; the frosts of winter had ceased;\nits snows were melted, its cutting winds ameliorated. My wretched feet,\nflayed and swollen to lameness by the sharp air of January, began to heal\nand subside under th... |
87 | 1260_volume_1,_chapter_10 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The epidemic of typhus fever incites an investigation into Lowood's unhealthy conditions and Mr. Brocklehurst's management of the school, and a new group of overseers takes control of the school. With Mr. Brocklehurst's dishonor, the quality of the school improves immensely, and Jane and the other students are able to ... | [
"Hitherto I have recorded in detail the events of my insignificant\nexistence: to the first ten years of my life I have given almost as many\nchapters. But this is not to be a regular autobiography. I am only\nbound to invoke Memory where I know her responses will possess some\ndegree of interest; therefore I now... |
88 | 1260_volume_1,_chapter_11 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | As Jane arrives in Millcote, she is overcome with anxiety; there is no one at the station to meet her, and she fears that this Mrs. Fairfax will prove to be a second Mrs. Reed. By the time the servant arrives to take her to Thornfield, night has fallen, and Jane can see nothing of the exterior of the house or its groun... | [
"A new chapter in a novel is something like a new scene in a play; and\nwhen I draw up the curtain this time, reader, you must fancy you see a\nroom in the George Inn at Millcote, with such large figured papering on\nthe walls as inn rooms have; such a carpet, such furniture, such\nornaments on the mantelpiece, suc... |
89 | 1260_volume_1,_chapter_12 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Life at Thornfield proves to be pleasant, and Jane is pleased with Adele. Although the girl is somewhat spoiled, Jane recognizes that she is an affectionate and able student and hopes that she will be able to separate Adele from some of her French affectation. Still, when Jane walks around the attic of Thornfield, she ... | [
"The promise of a smooth career, which my first calm introduction to\nThornfield Hall seemed to pledge, was not belied on a longer acquaintance\nwith the place and its inmates. Mrs. Fairfax turned out to be what she\nappeared, a placid-tempered, kind-natured woman, of competent education\nand average intelligence.... |
90 | 1260_volume_1,_chapter_13 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | With Mr. Rochester home, Thornfield becomes a noisier, busier place, much to Jane's liking. He invites Jane and Adele to have tea with him and Mrs. Fairfax. Adele immediately asks if he has a gift for Jane; Jane asserts that the best gift that he can give her is praise of Adele's progress. Mr. Rochester coldly interrog... | [
"Mr. Rochester, it seems, by the surgeon's orders, went to bed early that\nnight; nor did he rise soon next morning. When he did come down, it was\nto attend to business: his agent and some of his tenants were arrived,\nand waiting to speak with him.",
"Adele and I had now to vacate the library: it would be in d... |
91 | 1260_volume_1,_chapter_14 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | During the next few days, Jane sees little of Mr. Rochester as he deals with business and acquaintances. His moods shift rapidly, but Jane cannot figure out their source. One night, during one of his warmer moods, Mr. Rochester gives Adele her long-awaited gift and is more genial while talking with Jane. Jane keeps scr... | [
"For several subsequent days I saw little of Mr. Rochester. In the\nmornings he seemed much engaged with business, and, in the afternoon,\ngentlemen from Millcote or the neighbourhood called, and sometimes stayed\nto dine with him. When his sprain was well enough to admit of horse\nexercise, he rode out a good de... |
92 | 1260_volume_1,_chapter_15 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | One afternoon, while Adele plays elsewhere, Mr. Rochester takes the opportunity to fulfill his promise to Jane and explain his relationship to Adele. He was once passionately devoted to her mother, a French opera-dancer named Celine Varens, and despite her superior beauty, she seemed to return his ardor. He spent a for... | [
"Mr. Rochester did, on a future occasion, explain it. It was one\nafternoon, when he chanced to meet me and Adele in the grounds: and while\nshe played with Pilot and her shuttlecock, he asked me to walk up and\ndown a long beech avenue within sight of her.",
"He then said that she was the daughter of a French o... |
78 | 1260_volume_1,_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Jane Eyre begins with the adult Jane looking back at her life. She jumps into the story at a moment in her childhood when she's ten years old. On this particular day, Jane and her cousins John, Eliza, and Georgiana aren't going to do something: they're not going to take a walk, because it's too wet. Jane is relieved; s... | [
"There was no possibility of taking a walk that day. We had been\nwandering, indeed, in the leafless shrubbery an hour in the morning; but\nsince dinner (Mrs. Reed, when there was no company, dined early) the cold\nwinter wind had brought with it clouds so sombre, and a rain so\npenetrating, that further out-door ... |
79 | 1260_volume_1,_chapter_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The nursemaid, Bessie, and Mrs. Reed's lady's-maid, Miss Abbot, physically drag Jane to the red room; she's fighting them the whole way, which, she tells us, is unusual for her, but she's half-crazed. Jane objects to John Reed being called her "master," and Miss Abbot tells Jane that she is "less than a servant" becaus... | [
"I resisted all the way: a new thing for me, and a circumstance which\ngreatly strengthened the bad opinion Bessie and Miss Abbot were disposed\nto entertain of me. The fact is, I was a trifle beside myself; or rather\n_out_ of myself, as the French would say: I was conscious that a moment's\nmutiny had already re... |
80 | 1260_volume_1,_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Jane wakes up, confused and disoriented. Someone is holding her gently; she's never been held gently before. She starts to realize where she is--in her own bed. Bessie and a gentleman are there, looking after her. Jane's glad to see the gentleman, because he's not one of the Reeds. She looks at him closely and realizes... | [
"The next thing I remember is, waking up with a feeling as if I had had a\nfrightful nightmare, and seeing before me a terrible red glare, crossed\nwith thick black bars. I heard voices, too, speaking with a hollow\nsound, and as if muffled by a rush of wind or water: agitation,\nuncertainty, and an all-predominat... |
81 | 1260_volume_1,_chapter_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Jane is waiting patiently, convinced that Mrs. Reed will send her to school soon, even though she hasn't said so. Jane seems to be in more disgrace than usual: she has a smaller room, eats alone, and none of the Reed children are even speaking to her. John tries to say something nasty to Jane, but she hits him on the n... | [
"From my discourse with Mr. Lloyd, and from the above reported conference\nbetween Bessie and Abbot, I gathered enough of hope to suffice as a\nmotive for wishing to get well: a change seemed near,--I desired and\nwaited it in silence. It tarried, however: days and weeks passed: I had\nregained my normal state of ... |
82 | 1260_volume_1,_chapter_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Jane leaves Gateshead, refusing to say anything to Mrs. Reed before she goes. Bessie takes Jane to the porter's lodge, and then Jane takes a coach by herself for fifty miles to get to Lowood. The journey takes a long time, and she's afraid of being kidnapped, which is something that happened a lot in Bessie's stories. ... | [
"Five o'clock had hardly struck on the morning of the 19th of January,\nwhen Bessie brought a candle into my closet and found me already up and\nnearly dressed. I had risen half-an-hour before her entrance, and had\nwashed my face, and put on my clothes by the light of a half-moon just\nsetting, whose rays streamed... |
83 | 1260_volume_1,_chapter_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Everyone gets up before dawn again and it's so cold that the water inside is frozen, so they can't wash. At least the porridge is okay this morning. Jane starts having to actually do lessons with everyone else, which include sewing. While she's sewing, Jane watches another group of girls doing English history lessons w... | [
"The next day commenced as before, getting up and dressing by rushlight;\nbut this morning we were obliged to dispense with the ceremony of\nwashing; the water in the pitchers was frozen. A change had taken place\nin the weather the preceding evening, and a keen north-east wind,\nwhistling through the crevices of ... |
84 | 1260_volume_1,_chapter_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Jane continues to settle in at Lowood, if you can call it settling in. Not only does she have to learn all the new school rules and the course material, she also has to cope with the fact that nobody in the school ever gets enough to eat and they're always cold because their clothes are thin and old. There's an especia... | [
"My first quarter at Lowood seemed an age; and not the golden age either;\nit comprised an irksome struggle with difficulties in habituating myself\nto new rules and unwonted tasks. The fear of failure in these points\nharassed me worse than the physical hardships of my lot; though these\nwere no trifles.",
"Dur... |
85 | 1260_volume_1,_chapter_8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The school day finally ends, the pupils go out to have their early-evening meal , and Jane lets herself fall off the stool she's been standing on, curl up on the ground, and cry. She thinks all her hopes of being a successful student at Lowood, of having any friends, or having any of the teachers on her side are comple... | [
"Ere the half-hour ended, five o'clock struck; school was dismissed, and\nall were gone into the refectory to tea. I now ventured to descend: it\nwas deep dusk; I retired into a corner and sat down on the floor. The\nspell by which I had been so far supported began to dissolve; reaction\ntook place, and soon, so ov... |
86 | 1260_volume_1,_chapter_9 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Things get a little bit better at Lowood when winter dissolves into spring; not only is it warmer and more comfortable for the girls, but Jane also discovers how beautiful the landscape around the school really is, now that it isn't covered with snow and ice anymore. She even gets to wander around in the woods alone. W... | [
"But the privations, or rather the hardships, of Lowood lessened. Spring\ndrew on: she was indeed already come; the frosts of winter had ceased;\nits snows were melted, its cutting winds ameliorated. My wretched feet,\nflayed and swollen to lameness by the sharp air of January, began to heal\nand subside under th... |
87 | 1260_volume_1,_chapter_10 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The older Jane narrating the novel breaks in, explaining that she's going to skip eight years ahead in the story. First, she fills us in on a few details of what's happened at Lowood in the meantime: Many girls died of typhus at the school, and the outbreak put the school in the public eye, so Mr. Brocklehurst's cruelt... | [
"Hitherto I have recorded in detail the events of my insignificant\nexistence: to the first ten years of my life I have given almost as many\nchapters. But this is not to be a regular autobiography. I am only\nbound to invoke Memory where I know her responses will possess some\ndegree of interest; therefore I now... |
88 | 1260_volume_1,_chapter_11 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Jane stages the beginning of the next chapter almost like a play, describing the scene as she sits by the fire at an inn, waiting nervously to get to Thornfield and meet this mysterious Mrs. Fairfax and her daughter. Notice that Jane addresses the reader directly here, something that happens only a few times in the nov... | [
"A new chapter in a novel is something like a new scene in a play; and\nwhen I draw up the curtain this time, reader, you must fancy you see a\nroom in the George Inn at Millcote, with such large figured papering on\nthe walls as inn rooms have; such a carpet, such furniture, such\nornaments on the mantelpiece, suc... |
89 | 1260_volume_1,_chapter_12 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Jane continues to work as Adele's governess; her life with Mrs. Fairfax and her pupil is much more pleasant than anything she's experienced before, but she's still restless for adventure and excitement, or at least some contact with the outside world. Her favorite activity is going up to the roof of Thornfield and look... | [
"The promise of a smooth career, which my first calm introduction to\nThornfield Hall seemed to pledge, was not belied on a longer acquaintance\nwith the place and its inmates. Mrs. Fairfax turned out to be what she\nappeared, a placid-tempered, kind-natured woman, of competent education\nand average intelligence.... |
90 | 1260_volume_1,_chapter_13 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Jane doesn't see Mr. Rochester again that evening--he's in bed with his sprained ankle. She and Adele continue their lessons in a new upstairs room instead of the library, where Mr. Rochester is conducting business. Jane's excited about all the new activity in the household, all the people coming and going to see Mr. R... | [
"Mr. Rochester, it seems, by the surgeon's orders, went to bed early that\nnight; nor did he rise soon next morning. When he did come down, it was\nto attend to business: his agent and some of his tenants were arrived,\nand waiting to speak with him.",
"Adele and I had now to vacate the library: it would be in d... |
91 | 1260_volume_1,_chapter_14 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | For a little while, Jane doesn't see Rochester much; he has a lot of business and goes out riding frequently. Sometimes he is haughty or cold, but she can tell that he's just moody, and that his attitude doesn't really have anything to do with her. One evening, Rochester sends for Jane and Adele after dinner. A box of ... | [
"For several subsequent days I saw little of Mr. Rochester. In the\nmornings he seemed much engaged with business, and, in the afternoon,\ngentlemen from Millcote or the neighbourhood called, and sometimes stayed\nto dine with him. When his sprain was well enough to admit of horse\nexercise, he rode out a good de... |
92 | 1260_volume_1,_chapter_15 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | One day, while Rochester and Jane are walking in the garden outside Thornfield, Rochester explains his relationship to Adele's mother, Celine Varens, more explicitly. It's a pretty exciting story, so sit back as Rochester begins his tale: Celine was a French opera-dancer with whom Rochester fell in love--and he thought... | [
"Mr. Rochester did, on a future occasion, explain it. It was one\nafternoon, when he chanced to meet me and Adele in the grounds: and while\nshe played with Pilot and her shuttlecock, he asked me to walk up and\ndown a long beech avenue within sight of her.",
"He then said that she was the daughter of a French o... |
78 | 1260_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | It is a cold, wet November afternoon when the novel opens at Gateshead, the home of Jane Eyre's relatives, the Reeds. Jane and the Reed children, Eliza, John, and Georgiana sit in the drawing room. Jane's aunt is angry with her, purposely excluding her from the rest of the family, so Jane sits alone in a window seat, r... | [
"There was no possibility of taking a walk that day. We had been\nwandering, indeed, in the leafless shrubbery an hour in the morning; but\nsince dinner (Mrs. Reed, when there was no company, dined early) the cold\nwinter wind had brought with it clouds so sombre, and a rain so\npenetrating, that further out-door ... |
93 | 1260_chapters_2-3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | As she's being dragged to the red-room, Jane resists her jailors, Bessie and Miss Abbott. After the servants have locked her in, Jane begins observing the red-room. It is the biggest and best room of the mansion, yet is rarely used because Uncle Reed died there. Looking into a mirror, Jane compares her image to that of... | [
"I resisted all the way: a new thing for me, and a circumstance which\ngreatly strengthened the bad opinion Bessie and Miss Abbot were disposed\nto entertain of me. The fact is, I was a trifle beside myself; or rather\n_out_ of myself, as the French would say: I was conscious that a moment's\nmutiny had already re... |
81 | 1260_chapter_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Following her discussion with Mr. Lloyd, Jane expects that she will soon be sent away to school. But the only change Jane notices in her status following her experience in the red-room is that the boundary between Jane and the Reed children is more solid. On January 15, after three months of waiting for a change, Jane ... | [
"From my discourse with Mr. Lloyd, and from the above reported conference\nbetween Bessie and Abbot, I gathered enough of hope to suffice as a\nmotive for wishing to get well: a change seemed near,--I desired and\nwaited it in silence. It tarried, however: days and weeks passed: I had\nregained my normal state of ... |
82 | 1260_chapter_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | January 19, the date of Jane's departure from Gateshead has arrived. She rises at five o'clock in the morning, so that she'll be ready for the six o'clock coach. None of the family rises to bid Jane farewell, and she happily journeys far away from the Reeds. The porter's wife is surprised that Mrs. Reed is allowing suc... | [
"Five o'clock had hardly struck on the morning of the 19th of January,\nwhen Bessie brought a candle into my closet and found me already up and\nnearly dressed. I had risen half-an-hour before her entrance, and had\nwashed my face, and put on my clothes by the light of a half-moon just\nsetting, whose rays streamed... |
94 | 1260_chapters_6-7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | When the girls wake for breakfast on Jane's second morning at Lowood, they discover that the water in the pitchers is frozen. Before, she had been merely a spectator at Lowood, but now Jane will become an actor, participating fully in the events at the school. As Jane sits sewing, she notices once again how unfairly He... | [
"The next day commenced as before, getting up and dressing by rushlight;\nbut this morning we were obliged to dispense with the ceremony of\nwashing; the water in the pitchers was frozen. A change had taken place\nin the weather the preceding evening, and a keen north-east wind,\nwhistling through the crevices of ... |
85 | 1260_chapter_8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | At five o'clock, school is dismissed for tea. The spell she has been under dissolves and Jane collapses on the floor in grief. She feels all of her successes at Lowood have now been destroyed by Brocklehurst's unfair accusations. Jane wonders how Helen can be friends with a girl that the world has branded a liar. Helen... | [
"Ere the half-hour ended, five o'clock struck; school was dismissed, and\nall were gone into the refectory to tea. I now ventured to descend: it\nwas deep dusk; I retired into a corner and sat down on the floor. The\nspell by which I had been so far supported began to dissolve; reaction\ntook place, and soon, so ov... |
86 | 1260_chapter_9 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Spring arrives at Lowood, and the privations lessen. With new growth comes hope. Jane finds beauty in the natural world surrounding Lowood, a beauty that had been masked by winter's frosts. But within this pleasure, there is also pain. The forest dell that nurtures the school, the "low wood," also brings a pestilence b... | [
"But the privations, or rather the hardships, of Lowood lessened. Spring\ndrew on: she was indeed already come; the frosts of winter had ceased;\nits snows were melted, its cutting winds ameliorated. My wretched feet,\nflayed and swollen to lameness by the sharp air of January, began to heal\nand subside under th... |
87 | 1260_chapter_10 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Eight years pass before Jane again picks up her narrative. Following an investigation into the cause of the typhus epidemic at Lowood, Mr. Brocklehurst is publicly humiliated, and a new building is erected. Brocklehurst remains the treasurer for the school, but other, more enlightened, gentlemen become the school's ins... | [
"Hitherto I have recorded in detail the events of my insignificant\nexistence: to the first ten years of my life I have given almost as many\nchapters. But this is not to be a regular autobiography. I am only\nbound to invoke Memory where I know her responses will possess some\ndegree of interest; therefore I now... |
88 | 1260_chapter_11 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Jane sits waiting at the George Inn at Millcote, because no one has arrived from Thornfield to pick her up. Just as Jane is becoming anxious, a servant arrives for her. Despite its imposing architecture, Thornfield is inviting. Mrs. Fairfax proves to be a neat, mild-looking elderly lady, who greets Jane kindly. Surpris... | [
"A new chapter in a novel is something like a new scene in a play; and\nwhen I draw up the curtain this time, reader, you must fancy you see a\nroom in the George Inn at Millcote, with such large figured papering on\nthe walls as inn rooms have; such a carpet, such furniture, such\nornaments on the mantelpiece, suc... |
89 | 1260_chapter_12 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Thornfield meets up to Jane's initial expectations: calm and comfortable. Adele is a lively, spoiled child, but she is also obedient and teachable. Jane still longs for the busy world of the city, for variety, for conversation with her peers. A restlessness exists in Jane's nature that causes her pain. Walking along th... | [
"The promise of a smooth career, which my first calm introduction to\nThornfield Hall seemed to pledge, was not belied on a longer acquaintance\nwith the place and its inmates. Mrs. Fairfax turned out to be what she\nappeared, a placid-tempered, kind-natured woman, of competent education\nand average intelligence.... |
90 | 1260_chapter_13 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Life at Thornfield changes following Rochester's arrival. Jane and Adele are forced to abandon the library because Rochester needs to use it as a meeting room. Before, silence had ruled; now, the house it filled with new voices. Jane likes the place better now that it has a master. Adele finds it impossible to concentr... | [
"Mr. Rochester, it seems, by the surgeon's orders, went to bed early that\nnight; nor did he rise soon next morning. When he did come down, it was\nto attend to business: his agent and some of his tenants were arrived,\nand waiting to speak with him.",
"Adele and I had now to vacate the library: it would be in d... |
95 | 1260_chapters_14-15 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | At first, Jane sees little of Rochester. During their brief encounters, she notices his moodiness, but it doesn't upset her. Finally, one evening, he summons Adele and Jane, offering Adele her long-awaited present. Jane notices that Rochester is in a friendlier mood than usual, probably due to his dinner wine. Rocheste... | [
"For several subsequent days I saw little of Mr. Rochester. In the\nmornings he seemed much engaged with business, and, in the afternoon,\ngentlemen from Millcote or the neighbourhood called, and sometimes stayed\nto dine with him. When his sprain was well enough to admit of horse\nexercise, he rode out a good de... |
96 | 1260_chapter_16 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | On the morning following the fire, Jane dreads seeing Rochester, but his behavior hasn't changed. Watching the servants cleaning Rochester's room, Jane is amazed to find Grace Poole sewing new curtain rings. Grace seems calm for a woman who tried to commit murder the previous night. Like the other servants, Grace seems... | [
"I both wished and feared to see Mr. Rochester on the day which followed\nthis sleepless night: I wanted to hear his voice again, yet feared to\nmeet his eye. During the early part of the morning, I momentarily\nexpected his coming; he was not in the frequent habit of entering the\nschoolroom, but he did step in f... |
97 | 1260_chapter_17 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Jane is sickeningly disappointed when Rochester hasn't returned in a week, and Mrs. Fairfax suggests that he might go directly to Europe, not returning to Thornfield for a year or more. After two weeks, Rochester sends a letter telling Mrs. Fairfax that he will arrive in three days, along with a party of people. Jane i... | [
"A week passed, and no news arrived of Mr. Rochester: ten days, and still\nhe did not come. Mrs. Fairfax said she should not be surprised if he\nwere to go straight from the Leas to London, and thence to the Continent,\nand not show his face again at Thornfield for a year to come; he had not\nunfrequently quitted ... |
98 | 1260_chapters_18-19 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | With guests at Thornfield, life is cheerful. One night, they are preparing for a game of charades. Rochester's group goes first, pantomiming a marriage ceremony with Rochester and Blanche as the happy couple. They then enact the story of Eliezer and Rebecca, and end with Rochester as a prisoner in chains. Colonel Dent'... | [
"Merry days were these at Thornfield Hall; and busy days too: how\ndifferent from the first three months of stillness, monotony, and\nsolitude I had passed beneath its roof! All sad feelings seemed now\ndriven from the house, all gloomy associations forgotten: there was life\neverywhere, movement all day long. Yo... |
99 | 1260_chapter_20 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Later that evening, Jane lies in bed, gazing at the moonlight coming in her window. Suddenly, she hears a heart-stopping cry for help. Jane hurriedly puts on some clothes, horror shaking her body. All members of the party have gathered in the hallway, wondering if the house is on fire or if robbers have broken in. Roch... | [
"I had forgotten to draw my curtain, which I usually did, and also to let\ndown my window-blind. The consequence was, that when the moon, which was\nfull and bright (for the night was fine), came in her course to that\nspace in the sky opposite my casement, and looked in at me through the\nunveiled panes, her glor... |
100 | 1260_chapter_21 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Jane remembers Bessie Leaven saying that dreams of children are a sign of trouble, either to oneself or one's kin. Jane is worried because she has been dreaming of infants for the past seven successive nights, including the night she was roused by Mason's cry. It also happens on the day Jane learns of her cousin John's... | [
"Presentiments are strange things! and so are sympathies; and so are\nsigns; and the three combined make one mystery to which humanity has not\nyet found the key. I never laughed at presentiments in my life, because\nI have had strange ones of my own. Sympathies, I believe, exist (for\ninstance, between far-dista... |
101 | 1260_chapter_22 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Jane remains at Gateshead for a month, helping Georgiana and Eliza prepare for their departures: Georgiana to her uncle in London, and Eliza to a nunnery in Lisle, France. Eliza compliments Jane on her independence and hard work. The older Jane interrupts the narrative, telling Eliza's and Georgiana's futures: Eliza be... | [
"Mr. Rochester had given me but one week's leave of absence: yet a month\nelapsed before I quitted Gateshead. I wished to leave immediately after\nthe funeral, but Georgiana entreated me to stay till she could get off to\nLondon, whither she was now at last invited by her uncle, Mr. Gibson, who\nhad come down to di... |
102 | 1260_chapter_23 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | It is a beautiful midsummer's night. As the sun sets, Jane walks around the gardens of Thornfield, enjoying the solemn purple that colors the sky. Smelling Rochester's cigar from a window, Jane moves into the more secluded space of the orchard. But Rochester is now in the garden. Jane tries to escape unseen, but he spe... | [
"A splendid Midsummer shone over England: skies so pure, suns so radiant\nas were then seen in long succession, seldom favour even singly, our wave-\ngirt land. It was as if a band of Italian days had come from the South,\nlike a flock of glorious passenger birds, and lighted to rest them on the\ncliffs of Albion.... |
103 | 1260_chapters_24-25 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The next morning, Jane wakes, wondering if the previous night was just a dream. She feels transformed; even her face looks different, no longer plain. Believing Jane has taken an immoral turn, Mrs. Fairfax is cool and quiet at breakfast, but Jane feels she must let Rochester give explanations. When she walks up to the ... | [
"As I rose and dressed, I thought over what had happened, and wondered if\nit were a dream. I could not be certain of the reality till I had seen\nMr. Rochester again, and heard him renew his words of love and promise.",
"While arranging my hair, I looked at my face in the glass, and felt it\nwas no longer plain... |
104 | 1260_chapter_26 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | At seven o'clock on Jane's wedding day, Sophie arrives to help her dress. Jane wears the plain blond veil she has made herself, rather than the fancy veil that was destroyed by Bertha. In her wedding dress, Jane looks so different from her usual self that she seems a stranger to herself. As they drive to the church, Ro... | [
"Sophie came at seven to dress me: she was very long indeed in\naccomplishing her task; so long that Mr. Rochester, grown, I suppose,\nimpatient of my delay, sent up to ask why I did not come. She was just\nfastening my veil (the plain square of blond after all) to my hair with a\nbrooch; I hurried from under her ... |
105 | 1260_chapter_27 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Later that afternoon, Jane awakes, wondering what she should do: Leave Thornfield at once is the answer. At first, she doesn't think she can leave Rochester, but an inner voice tells her she both can and should. Jane leaves her room, tripping over Rochester, who sits in a chair outside the door. He carries her down to ... | [
"Some time in the afternoon I raised my head, and looking round and seeing\nthe western sun gilding the sign of its decline on the wall, I asked,\n\"What am I to do?\"",
"But the answer my mind gave--\"Leave Thornfield at once\"--was so prompt,\nso dread, that I stopped my ears. I said I could not bear such word... |
106 | 1260_chapters_28-29 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Two days later, the coachman drops Jane off in Whitcross. He couldn't take her any further because she has run out of money. Accidentally, Jane leaves her packet in the coach and is now destitute. Nature is Jane's only relative, the "universal mother" who will lodge her without money, so Jane spends the night sleeping ... | [
"Two days are passed. It is a summer evening; the coachman has set me\ndown at a place called Whitcross; he could take me no farther for the sum\nI had given, and I was not possessed of another shilling in the world.\nThe coach is a mile off by this time; I am alone. At this moment I\ndiscover that I forgot to ta... |
107 | 1260_chapter_30 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | After a few days, Jane has recovered her health enough to sit up and walk outdoors. Her conversations with Diana and Mary revive and refresh Jane, because their values and interests are so perfectly aligned with hers. Diana and Mary are better read than Jane, and Jane eagerly devours all the books they lend her. Drawin... | [
"The more I knew of the inmates of Moor House, the better I liked them. In\na few days I had so far recovered my health that I could sit up all day,\nand walk out sometimes. I could join with Diana and Mary in all their\noccupations; converse with them as much as they wished, and aid them when\nand where they wou... |
108 | 1260_chapter_31 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Jane has moved to her new home: the schoolroom cottage at Morton. Classes begin with twenty students; only three can read and none can write or do arithmetic. Some are docile and want to learn, while others are rough and unruly. Rather than feeling proud of her work, Jane feels degraded. She knows these feelings are wr... | [
"My home, then, when I at last find a home,--is a cottage; a little room\nwith whitewashed walls and a sanded floor, containing four painted chairs\nand a table, a clock, a cupboard, with two or three plates and dishes,\nand a set of tea-things in delf. Above, a chamber of the same dimensions\nas the kitchen, with... |
109 | 1260_chapter_32 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | After working with her students for a while, Jane discovers some intelligence among them. Jane is even surprised by their progress and begins personally to like some of the girls -- and they like her. Jane teaches them grammar, geography, history, and needlework. Despite her popularity within the community and her grow... | [
"I continued the labours of the village-school as actively and faithfully\nas I could. It was truly hard work at first. Some time elapsed before,\nwith all my efforts, I could comprehend my scholars and their nature. Wholly untaught, with faculties quite torpid, they seemed to me\nhopelessly dull; and, at first sig... |
110 | 1260_chapter_33 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | While a snowstorm whirls outside, Jane sits reading Marmion. Suddenly, she hears a noise at the door: it's St. John. After a long delay, he tells Jane's own story, ending by saying that finding Jane Eyre has become a matter of serious urgency. St. John explains that he discovered her true identity from the paper he tor... | [
"When Mr. St. John went, it was beginning to snow; the whirling storm\ncontinued all night. The next day a keen wind brought fresh and blinding\nfalls; by twilight the valley was drifted up and almost impassable. I\nhad closed my shutter, laid a mat to the door to prevent the snow from\nblowing in under it, trimm... |
111 | 1260_chapter_34 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Christmas has arrived and Jane is closing the Morton school. She is happy to discover that she is beloved by the girls and promises to visit the school for an hour each week. St. John asks Jane if she wouldn't like to dedicate her life to working with the poor, but she wants to enjoy herself, as well as cultivating oth... | [
"It was near Christmas by the time all was settled: the season of general\nholiday approached. I now closed Morton school, taking care that the\nparting should not be barren on my side. Good fortune opens the hand as\nwell as the heart wonderfully; and to give somewhat when we have largely\nreceived, is but to af... |
112 | 1260_chapter_35 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Rather than leaving for Cambridge the next day, St. John delays his trip for a week. During that time, he subtly punishes Jane for not obeying him. Remembering that he once saved her life, Jane tries to reconcile with him, asking him to treat her as a kinswoman, rather than a stranger. She tells him she retains her res... | [
"He did not leave for Cambridge the next day, as he had said he would. He\ndeferred his departure a whole week, and during that time he made me feel\nwhat severe punishment a good yet stern, a conscientious yet implacable\nman can inflict on one who has offended him. Without one overt act of\nhostility, one upbra... |
113 | 1260_chapter_36 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | At dawn the next morning, Jane rises. St. John slides a note under Jane's door, reminding her to resist temptation. It is the first of June, yet the day is chilly and overcast. Jane wanders the house, thinking about the previous night's visitation: Was it a delusion? It seemed to come from her, not from the external wo... | [
"The daylight came. I rose at dawn. I busied myself for an hour or two\nwith arranging my things in my chamber, drawers, and wardrobe, in the\norder wherein I should wish to leave them during a brief absence.\nMeantime, I heard St. John quit his room. He stopped at my door: I\nfeared he would knock--no, but a sl... |
114 | 1260_chapter_37 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Jane rushes to Ferndean, a building buried deep in the woods. While she watches the building, the door slowly opens, and Rochester reaches out a hand to see if it's raining. She notes that his body hasn't changed, but his face looks "desperate and brooding." After Rochester has returned to the house, Jane knocks on the... | [
"The manor-house of Ferndean was a building of considerable antiquity,\nmoderate size, and no architectural pretensions, deep buried in a wood. I\nhad heard of it before. Mr. Rochester often spoke of it, and sometimes\nwent there. His father had purchased the estate for the sake of the game\ncovers. He would ha... |
115 | 1260_chapter_38 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Rochester and Jane finally marry with a quiet ceremony. Immediately, Jane writes to the Rivers, explaining what she has done. Diana and Mary both approve of her marriage, but Jane receives no response from St. John. Not having forgotten Adele, Jane visits her at school. The girl is pale, thin, and unhappy, so Jane move... | [
"Reader, I married him. A quiet wedding we had: he and I, the parson and\nclerk, were alone present. When we got back from church, I went into the\nkitchen of the manor-house, where Mary was cooking the dinner and John\ncleaning the knives, and I said--",
"\"Mary, I have been married to Mr. Rochester this morni... |
78 | 1260_volume_1,_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The novel opens on a dreary November afternoon at Gateshead, the home of the wealthy Reed family. A young girl named Jane Eyre sits in the drawing room reading Bewick's History of British Birds. Jane's aunt, Mrs. Reed, has forbidden her niece to play with her cousins Eliza, Georgiana, and the bullying John. John chides... | [
"There was no possibility of taking a walk that day. We had been\nwandering, indeed, in the leafless shrubbery an hour in the morning; but\nsince dinner (Mrs. Reed, when there was no company, dined early) the cold\nwinter wind had brought with it clouds so sombre, and a rain so\npenetrating, that further out-door ... |
79 | 1260_volume_1,_chapter_2 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Two servants, Miss Abbott and Bessie Lee, escort Jane to the red-room, and Jane resists them with all of her might. Once locked in the room, Jane catches a glimpse of her ghastly figure in the mirror, and, shocked by her meager presence, she begins to reflect on the events that have led her to such a state. She remembe... | [
"I resisted all the way: a new thing for me, and a circumstance which\ngreatly strengthened the bad opinion Bessie and Miss Abbot were disposed\nto entertain of me. The fact is, I was a trifle beside myself; or rather\n_out_ of myself, as the French would say: I was conscious that a moment's\nmutiny had already re... |
80 | 1260_volume_1,_chapter_3 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | When she wakes, Jane finds herself in her own bedroom, in the care of Mr. Lloyd, the family's kind apothecary. Bessie is also present, and she expresses disapproval of her mistress's treatment of Jane. Jane remains in bed the following day, and Bessie sings her a song. Mr. Lloyd speaks with Jane about her life at Gates... | [
"The next thing I remember is, waking up with a feeling as if I had had a\nfrightful nightmare, and seeing before me a terrible red glare, crossed\nwith thick black bars. I heard voices, too, speaking with a hollow\nsound, and as if muffled by a rush of wind or water: agitation,\nuncertainty, and an all-predominat... |
81 | 1260_volume_1,_chapter_4 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | "I am glad you are no relation of mine. I will never call you aunt again as long as I live. I will never come to visit you when I am grown up; and if any one asks me how I liked you, and how you treated me, I will say the very thought of you makes me sick. About two months have passed, and Jane has been enduring even c... | [
"From my discourse with Mr. Lloyd, and from the above reported conference\nbetween Bessie and Abbot, I gathered enough of hope to suffice as a\nmotive for wishing to get well: a change seemed near,--I desired and\nwaited it in silence. It tarried, however: days and weeks passed: I had\nregained my normal state of ... |
82 | 1260_volume_1,_chapter_5 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Four days after meeting Mr. Brocklehurst, Jane boards the 6 a. m. coach and travels alone to Lowood. When she arrives at the school, the day is dark and rainy, and she is led through a grim building that will be her new home. The following day, Jane is introduced to her classmates and learns the daily routine, which ke... | [
"Five o'clock had hardly struck on the morning of the 19th of January,\nwhen Bessie brought a candle into my closet and found me already up and\nnearly dressed. I had risen half-an-hour before her entrance, and had\nwashed my face, and put on my clothes by the light of a half-moon just\nsetting, whose rays streamed... |
83 | 1260_volume_1,_chapter_6 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | On Jane's second morning at Lowood, the girls are unable to wash, as the water in their pitchers is frozen. Jane quickly learns that life at the school is harsh. The girls are underfed, overworked, and forced to sit still during seemingly endless sermons. Still, she takes comfort in her new friendship with Helen, who i... | [
"The next day commenced as before, getting up and dressing by rushlight;\nbut this morning we were obliged to dispense with the ceremony of\nwashing; the water in the pitchers was frozen. A change had taken place\nin the weather the preceding evening, and a keen north-east wind,\nwhistling through the crevices of ... |
84 | 1260_volume_1,_chapter_7 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | For most of Jane's first month at Lowood, Mr. Brocklehurst spends his time away from the school. When he returns, Jane becomes quite nervous because she remembers his promise to her aunt, Mrs. Reed, to warn the school about Jane's supposed habit of lying. When Jane inadvertently drops her slate in Mr. Brocklehurst's pr... | [
"My first quarter at Lowood seemed an age; and not the golden age either;\nit comprised an irksome struggle with difficulties in habituating myself\nto new rules and unwonted tasks. The fear of failure in these points\nharassed me worse than the physical hardships of my lot; though these\nwere no trifles.",
"Dur... |
85 | 1260_volume_1,_chapter_8 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Finally, at five o'clock, the students disperse, and Jane collapses to the floor. Deeply ashamed, she is certain that her reputation at Lowood has been ruined, but Helen assures her that most of the girls felt more pity for Jane than revulsion at her alleged deceitfulness. Jane tells Miss Temple that she is not a liar,... | [
"Ere the half-hour ended, five o'clock struck; school was dismissed, and\nall were gone into the refectory to tea. I now ventured to descend: it\nwas deep dusk; I retired into a corner and sat down on the floor. The\nspell by which I had been so far supported began to dissolve; reaction\ntook place, and soon, so ov... |
86 | 1260_volume_1,_chapter_9 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | In the spring, life at Lowood briefly seems happier, but the damp forest dell in which the school resides is a breeding-ground for typhus, and in the warm temperatures more than half the girls fall ill with the disease. Jane remains healthy and spends her time playing outdoors with a new friend, Mary Ann Wilson. Helen ... | [
"But the privations, or rather the hardships, of Lowood lessened. Spring\ndrew on: she was indeed already come; the frosts of winter had ceased;\nits snows were melted, its cutting winds ameliorated. My wretched feet,\nflayed and swollen to lameness by the sharp air of January, began to heal\nand subside under th... |
87 | 1260_volume_1,_chapter_10 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | After Mr. Brocklehurst's negligent treatment of the girls at Lowood is found to be one of the causes of the typhus epidemic, a new group of overseers is brought in to run the school. Conditions improve dramatically for the young girls, and Jane excels in her studies for the next six years. After spending two more years... | [
"Hitherto I have recorded in detail the events of my insignificant\nexistence: to the first ten years of my life I have given almost as many\nchapters. But this is not to be a regular autobiography. I am only\nbound to invoke Memory where I know her responses will possess some\ndegree of interest; therefore I now... |
96 | 1260_volume_2,_chapter_16 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The next morning, Jane is shocked to learn that the near tragedy of the night before has caused no scandal. The servants believe Rochester to have fallen asleep with a lit candle by his bed, and even Grace Poole shows no sign of guilt or remorse. Jane cannot imagine why an attempted murderer is allowed to continue work... | [
"I both wished and feared to see Mr. Rochester on the day which followed\nthis sleepless night: I wanted to hear his voice again, yet feared to\nmeet his eye. During the early part of the morning, I momentarily\nexpected his coming; he was not in the frequent habit of entering the\nschoolroom, but he did step in f... |
97 | 1260_volume_2,_chapter_17 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Rochester has been gone for a week, and Jane is dismayed to learn that he may choose to depart for continental Europe without returning to Thornfield--according to Mrs. Fairfax, he could be gone for more than a year. A week later, however, Mrs. Fairfax receives word that Rochester will arrive in three days with a large... | [
"A week passed, and no news arrived of Mr. Rochester: ten days, and still\nhe did not come. Mrs. Fairfax said she should not be surprised if he\nwere to go straight from the Leas to London, and thence to the Continent,\nand not show his face again at Thornfield for a year to come; he had not\nunfrequently quitted ... |
116 | 1260_volume_2,_chapter_18 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The guests stay at Thornfield for several days. Rochester and Blanche compete as a team at charades. From watching their interaction, Jane believes that they will be married soon though they do not seem to love one another. Blanche would be marrying Rochester for his wealth, and he for her beauty and her social positio... | [
"Merry days were these at Thornfield Hall; and busy days too: how\ndifferent from the first three months of stillness, monotony, and\nsolitude I had passed beneath its roof! All sad feelings seemed now\ndriven from the house, all gloomy associations forgotten: there was life\neverywhere, movement all day long. Yo... |
117 | 1260_volume_2,_chapter_19 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Jane goes in to the library to have her fortune read, and after overcoming her skepticism, she finds herself entranced by the old woman's speech. The gypsy woman seems to know a great deal about Jane and tells her that she is very close to happiness. She also says that she told Blanche Ingram that Rochester was not as ... | [
"The library looked tranquil enough as I entered it, and the Sibyl--if\nSibyl she were--was seated snugly enough in an easy-chair at the chimney-\ncorner. She had on a red cloak and a black bonnet: or rather, a broad-\nbrimmed gipsy hat, tied down with a striped handkerchief under her chin.\nAn extinguished candle... |
99 | 1260_volume_2,_chapter_20 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The same night, Jane is startled by a sudden cry for help. She hurries into the hallway, where Rochester assures everyone that a servant has merely had a nightmare. After everyone returns to bed, Rochester knocks on Jane's door. He tells her that he can use her help and asks whether she is afraid of blood. He leads her... | [
"I had forgotten to draw my curtain, which I usually did, and also to let\ndown my window-blind. The consequence was, that when the moon, which was\nfull and bright (for the night was fine), came in her course to that\nspace in the sky opposite my casement, and looked in at me through the\nunveiled panes, her glor... |
100 | 1260_volume_2,_chapter_21 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Jane has heard that it is a bad omen to dream of children, and now she has dreams on seven consecutive nights involving babies. She learns that her cousin John Reed has committed suicide, and that her aunt, Mrs. Reed, has suffered a stroke and is nearing death. Jane goes to Gateshead, where she is reunited with Bessie.... | [
"Presentiments are strange things! and so are sympathies; and so are\nsigns; and the three combined make one mystery to which humanity has not\nyet found the key. I never laughed at presentiments in my life, because\nI have had strange ones of my own. Sympathies, I believe, exist (for\ninstance, between far-dista... |
101 | 1260_volume_2,_chapter_22 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Jane remains at Gateshead for a month because Georgiana dreads being left alone with Eliza, with whom she does not get along. Eventually, Georgiana goes to London to live with her uncle, and Eliza joins a convent in France. Jane tells us that Eliza eventually becomes the Mother Superior of her convent, while Georgiana ... | [
"Mr. Rochester had given me but one week's leave of absence: yet a month\nelapsed before I quitted Gateshead. I wished to leave immediately after\nthe funeral, but Georgiana entreated me to stay till she could get off to\nLondon, whither she was now at last invited by her uncle, Mr. Gibson, who\nhad come down to di... |
102 | 1260_volume_2,_chapter_23 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | After a blissful two weeks, Jane encounters Rochester in the gardens. He invites her to walk with him, and Jane, caught off guard, accepts. Rochester confides that he has finally decided to marry Blanche Ingram and tells Jane that he knows of an available governess position in Ireland that she could take. Jane expresse... | [
"A splendid Midsummer shone over England: skies so pure, suns so radiant\nas were then seen in long succession, seldom favour even singly, our wave-\ngirt land. It was as if a band of Italian days had come from the South,\nlike a flock of glorious passenger birds, and lighted to rest them on the\ncliffs of Albion.... |
118 | 1260_volume_2,_chapter_24 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Preparations for Jane and Rochester's wedding do not run smoothly. Mrs. Fairfax treats Jane coldly because she doesn't realize that Jane was already engaged to Rochester when she allowed him to kiss her. But even after she learns the truth, Mrs. Fairfax maintains her disapproval of the marriage. Jane feels unsettled, a... | [
"As I rose and dressed, I thought over what had happened, and wondered if\nit were a dream. I could not be certain of the reality till I had seen\nMr. Rochester again, and heard him renew his words of love and promise.",
"While arranging my hair, I looked at my face in the glass, and felt it\nwas no longer plain... |
119 | 1260_volume_2,_chapter_25 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | The night before her wedding, Jane waits for Rochester, who has left Thornfield for the evening. She grows restless and takes a walk in the orchard, where she sees the now-split chestnut tree. When Rochester arrives, Jane tells him about strange events that have occurred in his absence. The preceding evening, Jane's we... | [
"The month of courtship had wasted: its very last hours were being\nnumbered. There was no putting off the day that advanced--the bridal\nday; and all preparations for its arrival were complete. _I_, at least,\nhad nothing more to do: there were my trunks, packed, locked, corded,\nranged in a row along the wall of ... |
104 | 1260_chapter_26 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Sophie helps Jane dress for the wedding, and Rochester and Jane walk to the church. Jane notes a pair of strangers reading the headstones in the churchyard cemetery. When Jane and Rochester enter the church, the two strangers are also present. When the priest asks if anyone objects to the ceremony, one of the strangers... | [
"Sophie came at seven to dress me: she was very long indeed in\naccomplishing her task; so long that Mr. Rochester, grown, I suppose,\nimpatient of my delay, sent up to ask why I did not come. She was just\nfastening my veil (the plain square of blond after all) to my hair with a\nbrooch; I hurried from under her ... |
105 | 1260_volume_3,_chapter_27 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | After falling asleep for a short while, Jane awakes to the realization that she must leave Thornfield. When she steps out of her room, she finds Rochester waiting in a chair on the threshold. To Rochester's assurances that he never meant to wound her, and to his pleas of forgiveness, Jane is silent, although she confid... | [
"Some time in the afternoon I raised my head, and looking round and seeing\nthe western sun gilding the sign of its decline on the wall, I asked,\n\"What am I to do?\"",
"But the answer my mind gave--\"Leave Thornfield at once\"--was so prompt,\nso dread, that I stopped my ears. I said I could not bear such word... |
120 | 1260_volume_3,_chapter_28 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Riding in a coach, Jane quickly exhausts her meager money supply and is forced to sleep outdoors. She spends much of the night in prayer, and the following day she begs for food or a job in the nearby town. No one helps her, except for one farmer who is willing to give her a slice of bread. After another day, Jane sees... | [
"Two days are passed. It is a summer evening; the coachman has set me\ndown at a place called Whitcross; he could take me no farther for the sum\nI had given, and I was not possessed of another shilling in the world.\nThe coach is a mile off by this time; I am alone. At this moment I\ndiscover that I forgot to ta... |
121 | 1260_volume_3,_chapter_29 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | After she is taken in by the Rivers siblings, Jane spends three days recuperating in bed. On the fourth day, she feels well again and follows the smell of baking bread into the kitchen, where she finds Hannah. Jane criticizes Hannah for judging her unfairly when she asked for help, and Hannah apologizes. Hannah tells t... | [
"The recollection of about three days and nights succeeding this is very dim in my mind. I can recall some sensations felt in that interval; but few thoughts framed, and no actions performed. I knew I was in a small room and in a narrow bed. To that bed I seemed to have grown; I lay on it motionless as a stone; and... |
107 | 1260_volume_3,_chapter_30 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Jane befriends Diana and Mary, who admire her drawings and give her books to read. St. John, on the other hand, remains distant and cold, although he is never unkind. After a month, Diana and Mary must return to their posts as governesses. St. John has found a position for Jane, running a charity school for girls in th... | [
"The more I knew of the inmates of Moor House, the better I liked them. In\na few days I had so far recovered my health that I could sit up all day,\nand walk out sometimes. I could join with Diana and Mary in all their\noccupations; converse with them as much as they wished, and aid them when\nand where they wou... |
108 | 1260_volume_3,_chapter_31 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | At Morton, the wealthy heiress Rosamond Oliver provides Jane with a cottage in which to live. Jane begins teaching, but to her own regret, she finds the work degrading and disappointing. While on a visit to Jane, St. John reveals that he, too, used to feel that he had made the wrong career choice, until one day he hear... | [
"My home, then, when I at last find a home,--is a cottage; a little room\nwith whitewashed walls and a sanded floor, containing four painted chairs\nand a table, a clock, a cupboard, with two or three plates and dishes,\nand a set of tea-things in delf. Above, a chamber of the same dimensions\nas the kitchen, with... |
109 | 1260_volume_3,_chapter_32 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Jane's students become more familiar and endeared to her, and Jane becomes quite popular among them. At night, though, she has troubling nightmares that involve Rochester. Jane continues to pay attention to the relationship between St. John and Rosamond, who often visits the school when she knows St. John will be there... | [
"I continued the labours of the village-school as actively and faithfully\nas I could. It was truly hard work at first. Some time elapsed before,\nwith all my efforts, I could comprehend my scholars and their nature. Wholly untaught, with faculties quite torpid, they seemed to me\nhopelessly dull; and, at first sig... |
110 | 1260_volume_3,_chapter_33 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | One snowy night, Jane sits reading Marmion when St. John appears at the door. Appearing troubled, he tells Jane the story of an orphan girl who became the governess at Thornfield Hall, then disappeared after nearly marrying Edward Rochester: this runaway governess's name is Jane Eyre. Until this point, Jane has been ca... | [
"When Mr. St. John went, it was beginning to snow; the whirling storm\ncontinued all night. The next day a keen wind brought fresh and blinding\nfalls; by twilight the valley was drifted up and almost impassable. I\nhad closed my shutter, laid a mat to the door to prevent the snow from\nblowing in under it, trimm... |
111 | 1260_volume_3,_chapter_34 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Jane closes her school for Christmas and spends a happy time with her newfound cousins at Moor House. Diana and Mary are delighted with the improvements Jane has made at the school, but St. John seems colder and more distant than ever. He tells Jane that Rosamond is engaged to a rich man named Mr. Granby. One day, he a... | [
"It was near Christmas by the time all was settled: the season of general\nholiday approached. I now closed Morton school, taking care that the\nparting should not be barren on my side. Good fortune opens the hand as\nwell as the heart wonderfully; and to give somewhat when we have largely\nreceived, is but to af... |
112 | 1260_volume_3,_chapter_35 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Chapter 35 ut as his wife--at his side always, and always restrained, and always checked--forced to keep the fire of my nature continually low, to compel it to burn inwardly and never utter a cry, though the imprisoned flame consumed vital after vital--this would be unendurable. During the following week, St. John cont... | [
"He did not leave for Cambridge the next day, as he had said he would. He\ndeferred his departure a whole week, and during that time he made me feel\nwhat severe punishment a good yet stern, a conscientious yet implacable\nman can inflict on one who has offended him. Without one overt act of\nhostility, one upbra... |
113 | 1260_volume_3,_chapter_36 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Jane contemplates her supernatural experience of the previous night, wondering whether it was really Rochester's voice that she heard calling to her and whether Rochester might actually be in trouble. She finds a note from St. John urging her to resist temptation, but nevertheless she boards a coach to Thornfield. She ... | [
"The daylight came. I rose at dawn. I busied myself for an hour or two\nwith arranging my things in my chamber, drawers, and wardrobe, in the\norder wherein I should wish to leave them during a brief absence.\nMeantime, I heard St. John quit his room. He stopped at my door: I\nfeared he would knock--no, but a sl... |
114 | 1260_volume_3,_chapter_37 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Jane goes to Ferndean. From a distance, she sees Rochester reach a hand out of the door, testing for rain. His body looks the same, but his face is desperate and disconsolate. Rochester returns inside, and Jane approaches the house. She knocks, and Mary answers the door. Inside, Jane carries a tray to Rochester, who is... | [
"The manor-house of Ferndean was a building of considerable antiquity,\nmoderate size, and no architectural pretensions, deep buried in a wood. I\nhad heard of it before. Mr. Rochester often spoke of it, and sometimes\nwent there. His father had purchased the estate for the sake of the game\ncovers. He would ha... |
115 | 1260_volume_3,_chapter_38 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | Jane and Rochester marry with no witnesses other than the parson and the church clerk. Jane writes to her cousins with the news. St. John never acknowledges what has happened, but Mary and Diana write back with their good wishes. Jane visits Adele at her school, and finds her unhappy. Remembering her own childhood expe... | [
"Reader, I married him. A quiet wedding we had: he and I, the parson and\nclerk, were alone present. When we got back from church, I went into the\nkitchen of the manor-house, where Mary was cooking the dinner and John\ncleaning the knives, and I said--",
"\"Mary, I have been married to Mr. Rochester this morni... |
78 | 1260_chapter_1 | Write a detailed summary of the context provided. | It is a cold and dreary winter afternoon, and outdoor activity is impossible. Jane's aunt, Mrs. Reed, has her own children, Eliza, John, and Georgiana, happily gathered around her on a sofa in the drawing room of Gateshead Hall. Jane is excluded from the group. She steals into the adjoining breakfast room and sits in a... | [
"There was no possibility of taking a walk that day. We had been\nwandering, indeed, in the leafless shrubbery an hour in the morning; but\nsince dinner (Mrs. Reed, when there was no company, dined early) the cold\nwinter wind had brought with it clouds so sombre, and a rain so\npenetrating, that further out-door ... |
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