She thought we did not know how long the 'moment of dissolution' might really be, or how terrible.

This was just such a terror as only hypochondriacs can provide for themselves.

She told me long ago that a misfortune was often preceded by the dream frequently repeated which she gives to 'Jane Eyre,' of carrying a little wailing child, and being unable to still it.
She described herself as having the most painful sense of pity for the little thing, lying _inert_, as sick children do, while she walked about in some gloomy place with it, such as the aisle of Haworth Church.

The misfortunes she mentioned were not always to herself.

She thought such sensitiveness to omens was like the cholera, present to susceptible people,--some feeling more, some less." About the beginning of 1834, "E." went to London for the first time.