I ask again, is there anything the matter ?" "Nothing now; I am neither afraid nor unhappy." "Then you have been both ?" "Rather: but I'll tell you all about it by-and-bye, sir; and I daresay you will only laugh at me for my pains." "I'll laugh at you heartily when to-morrow is past; till then I dare not: my prize is not certain.

This is you, who have been as slippery as an eel this last month, and as thorny as a briar-rose?
I could not lay a finger anywhere but I was pricked; and now I seem to have gathered up a stray lamb in my arms.

You wandered out of the fold to seek your shepherd, did you, Jane ?" "I wanted you: but don't boast.

Here we are at Thornfield: now let me get down." He landed me on the pavement.

As John took his horse, and he followed me into the hall, he told me to make haste and put something dry on, and then return to him in the library; and he stopped me, as I made for the staircase, to extort a promise that I would not be long: nor was I long; in five minutes I rejoined him.