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Recording by Elizabeth Klett Jane Eyre by Charlotte BRONTË Chapter Seven

My first quarter at Lowood seemed an age; and not the golden age either;

it comprised an irksome struggle with difficulties in habituating myself

The fear of failure in these points harassed me worse than the physical hardships

During January, February, and part of March, the deep snows, and, after

their melting, the almost impassable roads, prevented our stirring beyond

the garden walls, except to go to church; but within these limits we had

to pass an hour every day in the open air.

Our clothing was insufficient to protect us from the severe cold: we had

no boots, the snow got into our shoes and melted there: our ungloved hands

became numbed and covered with chilblains, as were our feet: I remember

well the distracting irritation I endured from this cause every

evening, when my feet inflamed; and the torture of thrusting the

swelled, raw, and stiff toes into my shoes in the morning.

Then the scanty supply of food was distressing: with the keen appetites of growing

children, we had scarcely sufficient to keep alive a delicate invalid.

From this deficiency of nourishment resulted an abuse, which pressed

hardly on the younger pupils: whenever the famished great girls

had an opportunity, they would coax or menace the little ones out of their

Many a time I have shared between two claimants the precious

morsel of brown bread distributed at tea-time; and after relinquishing

to a third half the contents of my mug of coffee, I have swallowed

the remainder with an accompaniment of secret tears, forced from

Sundays were dreary days in that wintry season.

We had to walk two miles to Brocklebridge Church, where our patron

We set out cold, we arrived at church colder: during the morning

It was too far to return to dinner, and an allowance of cold

meat and bread, in the same penurious proportion observed in our ordinary

meals, was served round between the services.

At the close of the afternoon service we returned by an exposed and hilly

road, where the bitter winter wind, blowing over a range of snowy summits

to the north, almost flayed the skin from our faces.

I can remember Miss Temple walking lightly and rapidly along our drooping

line, her plaid cloak, which the frosty wind fluttered, gathered close

about her, and encouraging us, by precept and example, to keep up our

spirits, and march forward, as she said, "like stalwart soldiers."

The other teachers, poor things, were generally

themselves too much dejected to attempt the task of cheering others.

How we longed for the light and heat of a blazing fire when we got back!

But, to the little ones at least, this was denied: each hearth in the

schoolroom was immediately surrounded by a double row of great girls, and

behind them the younger children crouched in groups, wrapping their

A little solace came at tea-time, in the shape of a double ration of

bread--a whole, instead of a half, slice--with the delicious addition of

a thin scrape of butter: it was the hebdomadal treat to which we all

I generally contrived to reserve a moiety of this bounteous repast for myself;

but the remainder I was invariably obliged to part with.

The Sunday evening was spent in repeating, by heart, the Church

Catechism, and the fifth, sixth, and seventh chapters of St. Matthew; and

in listening to a long sermon, read by Miss Miller, whose irrepressible

A frequent interlude of these performances was the enactment of the part of Eutychus

by some half-dozen of little girls, who, overpowered with sleep, would

fall down, if not out of the third loft, yet off the fourth form, and be

The remedy was, to thrust them forward into the

centre of the schoolroom, and oblige them to stand there till the sermon

Sometimes their feet failed them, and they sank together in

a heap; they were then propped up with the monitors' high stools.

I have not yet alluded to the visits of Mr. Brocklehurst; and indeed that

gentleman was from home during the greater part of the first month after

my arrival; perhaps prolonging his stay with his friend the archdeacon:

I need not say that I had my own reasons for dreading his coming: but come he did at

One afternoon (I had then been three weeks at Lowood), as I was sitting

with a slate in my hand, puzzling over a sum in long division, my eyes,

raised in abstraction to the window, caught sight of a figure just

passing: I recognised almost instinctively that gaunt outline; and when,

two minutes after, all the school, teachers included, rose _en masse_, it

was not necessary for me to look up in order to ascertain whose entrance

A long stride measured the schoolroom, and presently

beside Miss Temple, who herself had risen, stood the same black column

which had frowned on me so ominously from the hearthrug of Gateshead.

I now glanced sideways at this piece of architecture.

Yes, I was right: it was Mr. Brocklehurst, buttoned up in a surtout,

and looking longer, narrower, and more rigid than ever.

I had my own reasons for being dismayed at this apparition; too well I

remembered the perfidious hints given by Mrs. Reed about my disposition,

&c.; the promise pledged by Mr. Brocklehurst to apprise Miss Temple and

All along I had been dreading the fulfilment of this promise,--I had been looking

out daily for the "Coming Man," whose information respecting my past

life and conversation was to brand me as a bad child for ever: now there

He stood at Miss Temple's side; he was speaking low in her ear: I did not

doubt he was making disclosures of my villainy; and I watched her eye

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