Jane Eyre - Translation, Classics Library 001

Author: Charlotte Bront?
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Publish Date: 2006-08-01
Features: "She's on the windowsill, surely, Jack," I quickly came out, because the thought of being dragged out by that Jack made me tremble. "What do you want?" I asked, both embarrassed and timid. "Say 'What do you want, Master Reed,' " that was the answer. "I want you here; " he sat down in an armchair and gestured for me to come and stand in front of him. John Reed was a fourteen-year-old student, four years older than me, and I was only ten. For his age, he could be considered tall and stout, with dark, unhealthy-looking skin, a large face, rough features, and thick limbs, with large hands and feet. He was accustomed to wolfing down food at the dinner table, which made him prone to irritability, hazy eyes, and slack cheeks. Recently, he should have been at school, but his mother had taken him home for a couple of months, saying "because he wasn't well." Mr. Miles, the teacher, concluded that as long as fewer cakes and sweets were sent to him at home, he would do well; but the mother did not want to hear such harsh advice and preferred a gentler view, attributing John's poor complexion to overstudying, perhaps also to homesickness...