Reader(s): Root, Amanda
Label: Naxos AudioBooks
Genre: Classic Fiction
Period: Romantic
Catalogue No: NAX35712
Barcode: 9789626343579
Release Date: 06/2005

BRONTE, C.: Jane Eyre (Unabridged)

One of the greatest love stories ever written, Jane Eyre is the tale of a young woman entangled with the powerful Mr Rochester. What lurks in the attic at Thornfield, the ancestral home of the surly Mr Rochester? Will the governess Jane Eyre discover his secret—and having discovered it, live to regret that knowledge? Battling inside Jane are passion and prudence; she struggles to survive the turmoil they cause.

Tracklist

Disc 1
Brontë, Charlotte - Author
Root, Amanda (Reader)
1 Chapter 1 04:37
Root, Amanda (Reader)
2 I cannot tell what sentiment haunted… 08:00
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3 Chapter 2 05:38
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4 Mr Reed had been dead nine years… 05:36
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5 Daylight began to forsake the red-room… 06:22
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6 Chapter 3 05:46
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7 Bessie had been down into the kitchen… 05:24
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8 ‘Oh! I daresay she is crying…’ 04:50
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9 ‘No; I should not like to belong to poor people…’ 04:40
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10 Chapter 4 04:01
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11 November, December, and half of January passed away 05:23
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12 Georgiana sat on a high stool, dressing her hair… 04:55
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13 ‘This is the little girl…’ 05:11
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14 Well might I dread… 04:54
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Disc 2
1 Mrs Reed and I were left alone… 06:40
Root, Amanda (Reader)
2 I was left there alone… 07:14
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3 Chapter 5 04:48
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4 The afternoon came on wet and somewhat misty… 06:32
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5 The night passed rapidly 05:36
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6 A clock in the schoolroom struck nine… 05:11
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7 The garden was a wide enclosure… 04:38
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8 ‘Can you tell me what the writing…’ 06:09
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9 Chapter 6 05:11
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10 The play-hour in the evening I thought the pleasantest… 05:08
Root, Amanda (Reader)
11 ‘Is Miss Temple as severe to you as Miss Scatcherd?’ 05:06
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12 In her turn, Helen Burns… 03:29
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13 Chapter 7 04:49
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Disc 3
1 One afternoon (I had then been three weeks at Lowood)… 05:15
Root, Amanda (Reader)
2 Mr Brocklehurst again paused… 05:41
Root, Amanda (Reader)
3 ‘Let the child who broke her slate come forward!’ 06:37
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4 Chapter 8 05:59
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5 I was silent… 06:03
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6 Mrs Harden, be it observed, was the housekeeper… 08:06
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7 Chapter 9 06:42
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8 My favourite seat was a smooth and broad stone… 06:32
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9 It might be two hours later… 08:27
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10 Chapter 10 05:45
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11 I went to my window, opened it, and looked out 07:17
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Disc 4
1 The succeeding week seemed long… 05:59
Root, Amanda (Reader)
2 This testimonial I accordingly received… 04:21
Root, Amanda (Reader)
3 ‘And Mrs Reed?’ 04:10
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4 Chapter 11 05:01
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5 The roads were heavy… 06:08
Root, Amanda (Reader)
6 My heart really warmed to the worthy lady… 05:16
Root, Amanda (Reader)
7 Everything appeared very stately and imposing to me… 06:19
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8 ‘Ah!’ cried she, in French… 04:49
Root, Amanda (Reader)
9 After breakfast, Adele and I withdrew to the library… 05:39
Root, Amanda (Reader)
10 When we left the dining-room… 07:08
Root, Amanda (Reader)
11 Chapter 12 06:28
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12 October, November, December passed away 05:14
Root, Amanda (Reader)
13 It was very near, but not yet in sight… 05:23
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14 ‘You live just below…’ 04:45
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Disc 5
1 I did not like re-entering Thornfield 04:28
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2 Chapter 13 06:24
Root, Amanda (Reader)
3 I sat down quite disembarrassed 05:12
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4 Mrs Fairfax had dropped her knitting… 05:40
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5 He spread the pictures before him… 05:00
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6 I had scarce tied the strings of the portfolio… 03:50
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7 Chapter 14 05:39
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8 Mr Rochester, as he sat in his damask-covered chair… 06:38
Root, Amanda (Reader)
9 Instead of speaking, I smiled… 05:21
Root, Amanda (Reader)
10 My eye met his as the idea crossed my mind… 06:10
Root, Amanda (Reader)
11 He said this as if he spoke to a vision… 08:08
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Disc 6
1 Chapter 15 05:30
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2 He ground his teeth and was silent… 06:45
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3 Adele here came running up again 05:35
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4 The ease of his manner… 05:08
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5 Ere long, steps retreated up the gallery… 05:21
Root, Amanda (Reader)
6 He re-entered, pale and very gloomy 04:50
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7 Chapter 16 07:03
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8 I still stood absolutely dumfoundered… 06:07
Root, Amanda (Reader)
9 A tread creaked on the stairs at last 06:24
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10 When once more alone… 05:22
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11 Chapter 17 05:14
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12 The party were expected to arrive on Thursday afternoon… 05:54
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Disc 7
1 The ten minutes John had given seemed very long… 05:48
Root, Amanda (Reader)
2 I told her stories as long as she would listen to them… 06:58
Root, Amanda (Reader)
3 A soft sound of rising now became audible… 05:07
Root, Amanda (Reader)
4 Genius is said to be self-conscious 05:50
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5 Most true is it… 05:57
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6 I feared – or should I say, hoped? 05:32
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7 ‘I suppose, now,’ said Miss Ingram… 07:48
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8 Chapter 18 05:06
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9 Seated on the carpet… 05:21
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10 I have told you, reader… 06:38
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11 I have not yet said anything condemnatory… 05:23
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Disc 8
1 It was verging on dusk… 06:03
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2 I was pondering these things… 04:47
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3 Miss Ingram rose solemnly… 05:47
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4 Chapter 19 05:15
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5 I knelt within half a yard of her 04:47
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6 ‘The eagerness of a listener…’ 07:13
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7 Rise, Miss Eyre… 03:59
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8 Mr Rochester was standing near me… 04:47
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9 Chapter 20 06:28
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10 My slippers were thin… 05:49
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11 According as the shifting obscurity… 06:57
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12 I saw Mr Rochester shudder… 07:10
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Disc 9
1 He strayed down a walk edged with box… 04:56
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2 ‘Now, my little friend…’ 06:39
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3 Chapter 21 04:44
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4 I was silent: the things were frightful 07:05
Root, Amanda (Reader)
5 ‘Mr Rochester, I may as well mention another matter…’ 06:53
Root, Amanda (Reader)
6 In such conversation an hour was soon gone… 07:00
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7 I did not need to be guided to the well-known room… 05:37
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8 I hated it the first time I set my eyes on it… 05:49
Root, Amanda (Reader)
9 ‘Is that a portrait of some one you know?’ 06:34
Root, Amanda (Reader)
10 Take this advice… 05:34
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11 I now gently assured her… 04:11
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12 Now act as you please… 03:43
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Disc 10
1 Chapter 22 03:56
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2 How people feel when they are returning home… 06:11
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3 ‘Hallo!’ he cries; and he puts up his book and his pencil 07:39
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4 Chapter 23 05:38
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5 It is one of my faults… 04:15
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6 ‘In about a month…’ 05:57
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7 ‘I tell you I must go!’ 04:41
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8 You – you strange, you almost unearthly thing! 05:56
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9 Chapter 24 06:21
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10 ‘This very day I shall take you…’ 04:54
Root, Amanda (Reader)
11 ‘Don’t send for the jewels…’ 06:18
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12 I was soon dressed… 06:28
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13 Adele, when lifted in… 05:33
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Disc 11
1 The hour spent at Millcote was a somewhat harassing one to me 05:36
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2 We were now approaching Thornfield 05:45
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3 He rose and came towards me… 05:21
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4 Chapter 25 05:42
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5 The wind fell… 05:16
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6 He landed me on the pavement 05:04
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7 I walked a little while on the pavement… 06:01
Root, Amanda (Reader)
8 The disquietude of his air… 05:57
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9 ‘Now, sir, proceed…’ 06:07
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10 Chapter 26 04:33
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11 We entered the quiet and humble temple… 05:18
Root, Amanda (Reader)
12 Mr Briggs calmly took a paper from his pocket… 05:33
Root, Amanda (Reader)
13 ‘Bertha Mason is mad…’ 04:42
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14 The three gentlemen retreated simultaneously 05:19
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Disc 12
1 The morning had been a quiet morning enough… 05:31
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2 Chapter 27 04:35
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3 ‘Will you ever forgive me?’ 05:45
Root, Amanda (Reader)
4 ‘Jane, you shall not stay here, nor will I.’ 05:56
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5 He recommenced his walk… 06:07
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6 I did what human beings do instinctively… 07:29
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7 ‘Jane, you don’t like my narrative…’ 05:46
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8 From a flowery arch at the bottom of my garden… 05:09
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9 ‘When you are inquisitive, Jane…’ 05:13
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10 Last January… 05:49
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11 I was at once content… 05:39
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12 ‘Jane, you understand what I want of you?’ 05:08
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13 He crossed the floor… 04:52
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Disc 13
1 That night I never thought to sleep… 04:39
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2 Dim dawn glimmered in the yard. 04:54
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3 Chapter 28 04:48
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4 I saw ripe bilberries gleaming here and there… 04:56
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5 I heard a bell chime… 06:33
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6 I drew near houses… 05:00
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7 But once did food pass my lips 05:19
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8 Having crossed the marsh… 05:52
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9 ‘Is there ony country where they talk i’ that way?’ 06:15
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10 This was the climax 07:37
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11 Chapter 29 05:06
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12 After a weary process… 05:16
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13 I maintained a grave silence… 05:54
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Disc 14
1 The parlour was rather a small room… 04:45
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2 Here I saw his glance directed to my hands… 04:10
Root, Amanda (Reader)
3 I observed but two points in planning my departure… 04:26
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4 Chapter 30 07:06
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5 Incommunicative as he was… 06:14
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6 St John said these words as he pronounced his sermons… 07:01
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7 In this brief hour… 05:19
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8 Chapter 31 04:57
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9 Having brought my eventide musings to this point… 05:36
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10 My powers heard a call from heaven to rise… 05:58
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11 This then, I thought, is Miss Oliver, the heiress… 04:42
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12 Chapter 32 04:21
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13 Rosamond Oliver kept her word in coming to visit me 04:36
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14 One evening, while, with her usual child-like activity… 03:39
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Disc 15
1 It was the 5th of November, and a holiday 06:15
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2 Since I had ascertained that… 06:17
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3 After a considerable pause… 06:39
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4 Chapter 33 05:57
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5 Again came the blank of a pause… 04:53
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6 I felt cold and dismayed… 06:02
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7 Mr Rivers rose now and put his cloak on 04:51
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8 I paused – he stood before me… 04:34
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9 ‘Mr Rivers! you quite put me out of patience…’ 06:43
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10 Chapter 34 06:39
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11 Happy at Moor House I was… 05:51
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12 ‘They are coming! They are coming!’ 05:11
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13 St John had a book in his hand… 06:42
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Disc 16
1 St John was not a man to be lightly refused… 04:41
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2 In the course of my necessary correspondence… 04:44
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3 As we advanced and left the track… 05:00
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4 He had calculated on these first objections… 04:53
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5 ‘I CAN do what he wants me to do…’ 06:13
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6 I shuddered as he spoke… 05:32
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7 ‘St John!’ I exclaimed… 06:35
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8 Chapter 35 06:41
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9 I had finished the business now 05:02
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10 He opened the gate… 06:09
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11 For the evening reading before prayers… 05:57
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12 The Impossible – that is my marriage… 05:37
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13 Chapter 36 05:28
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14 It was a journey of six-and-thirty hours 06:34
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Disc 17
1 I looked with timorous joy towards a stately house… 05:56
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2 I feared now to hear my own story 03:23
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3 ‘What! did he not leave England?’ 04:30
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4 Chapter 37 05:22
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5 He descended the one step… 04:46
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6 ‘Who is this?’ 05:14
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7 I will be your neighbour, your nurse, your housekeeper 05:06
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8 Summoning Mary… 05:38
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9 Very early the next morning… 05:11
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10 ‘This St John, then, is your cousin?’ 06:23
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11 ‘Jane, I ever like your tone of voice…’ 04:45
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12 ‘Mr Rochester, if ever I did a good deed in my life…’ 05:22
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13 I longed for thee… 04:31
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14 Chapter 38 03:33
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15 You have not quite forgotten little Adele… 04:16
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16 One morning at the end of the two years… 04:37
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