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Recording by Elizabeth Klett Jane Eyre by Charlotte BRONTË Chapter Eight

Ere the half-hour ended, five o'clock struck; school was dismissed, and

I now ventured to descend: it was deep dusk; I retired into a corner and

The spell by which I had been so far supported

began to dissolve; reaction took place, and soon, so overwhelming was

the grief that seized me, I sank prostrate with my face to the ground.

Now I wept: Helen Burns was not here; nothing sustained me; left to myself

I abandoned myself, and my tears watered the boards.

I had meant to be so good, and to do so much at Lowood: to make so many friends, to earn

Already I had made visible progress: that very morning I had reached the

head of my class; Miss Miller had praised me warmly; Miss Temple had

smiled approbation; she had promised to teach me drawing, and to let me

learn French, if I continued to make similar improvement two months

longer: and then I was well received by my fellow-pupils; treated as an

equal by those of my own age, and not molested by any; now, here I lay

again crushed and trodden on; and could I ever rise more?

"Never," I thought; and ardently I wished to die.

While sobbing out this wish in broken accents, some one approached:

I started up--again Helen Burns was near me; the fading fires just showed

her coming up the long, vacant room; she brought my coffee and bread.

"Come, eat something," she said; but I put both away from me, feeling as

if a drop or a crumb would have choked me in my present condition.

Helen regarded me, probably with surprise: I could

not now abate my agitation, though I tried hard; I continued to weep aloud.

She sat down on the ground near me, embraced her knees with her

arms, and rested her head upon them; in that attitude she remained silent

"Helen, why do you stay with a girl whom everybody believes to be a

Why, there are only eighty people who have heard you

called so, and the world contains hundreds of millions."

"Jane, you are mistaken: probably not one in the school either despises

or dislikes you: many, I am sure, pity you much."

"How can they pity me after what Mr. Brocklehurst has said?"

"Mr. Brocklehurst is not a god: nor is he even a great and admired man:

he is little liked here; he never took steps to make himself liked.

Had he treated you as an especial favourite, you

would have found enemies, declared or covert, all around you; as it

is, the greater number would offer you sympathy if they dared.

Teachers and pupils may look coldly on you for a day or two, but friendly feelings

are concealed in their hearts; and if you persevere in doing well,

these feelings will ere long appear so much the more evidently for their

"Well, Helen?" said I, putting my hand into hers: she chafed my fingers

"If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own

conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be

"No; I know I should think well of myself; but that is not enough: if

others don't love me I would rather die than live--I cannot bear to be

Look here; to gain some real affection from you, or Miss Temple, or any other whom I truly

love, I would willingly submit to have the bone of my arm broken,

or to let a bull toss me, or to stand behind a kicking horse, and let it dash

you think too much of the love of human beings; you are too

impulsive, too vehement; the sovereign hand that created your frame, and

put life into it, has provided you with other resources than your feeble

Besides this earth, and besides the race of men, there is an invisible world

and a kingdom of spirits: that world is round us, for it is everywhere;

and those spirits watch us, for they are commissioned to guard us; and

if we were dying in pain and shame, if scorn smote us on all sides, and

hatred crushed us, angels see our tortures, recognise our innocence (if

innocent we be: as I know you are of this charge which Mr. Brocklehurst

has weakly and pompously repeated at second-hand from Mrs. Reed; for

I read a sincere nature in your ardent eyes and on your clear front),

and God waits only the separation of spirit from flesh to crown us

Why, then, should we ever sink overwhelmed with

distress, when life is so soon over, and death is so certain an entrance

I was silent; Helen had calmed me; but in the tranquillity she imparted

there was an alloy of inexpressible sadness.

I felt the impression of woe as she spoke, but I could not tell whence

it came; and when, having done speaking, she breathed a little fast

and coughed a short cough, I momentarily forgot my own sorrows to yield

Resting my head on Helen's shoulder, I put my arms round her waist; she

drew me to her, and we reposed in silence.

We had not sat long thus, when another person came in.

Some heavy clouds, swept from the sky by a rising wind, had left the moon bare; and her

light, streaming in through a window near, shone full both on us and on

the approaching figure, which we at once recognised as Miss Temple.

"I came on purpose to find you, Jane Eyre," said she; "I want you in my

room; and as Helen Burns is with you, she may come too."

We went; following the superintendent's guidance, we had to thread some

intricate passages, and mount a staircase before we reached her

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