Name: 第2部--《簡-愛》有聲讀物，夏洛蒂-勃朗特著 (Chs 07-11) (Part 2 - Jane Eyre Audiobook by Charlotte Bronte (Chs 07-11))
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My first quarter at Lowood seemed an age; and not the golden age either; it comprised

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an irksome struggle with difficulties in habituating myself to new rules and

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

hardships of my lot; though these were no trifles.

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

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

growing children, we had scarcely sufficient to keep alive a delicate

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 portion.

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 me by the exigency of

hunger. Sundays were dreary days in that wintry

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

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

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

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,

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

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 starved arms in their pinafores.

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

which we all looked forward from Sabbath to Sabbath.

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 yawns attested her weariness.

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 taken up half dead.

The remedy was, to thrust them forward into the centre of the schoolroom, and oblige

them to stand there till the sermon was finished.

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: his absence was a relief to me.

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 they thus greeted.

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

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 the teachers of my vicious nature.

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 was.

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 with painful anxiety,

expecting every moment to see its dark orb

turn on me a glance of repugnance and contempt.

I listened too; and as I happened to be seated quite at the top of the room, I

caught most of what he said: its import relieved me from immediate apprehension.

"I suppose, Miss Temple, the thread I bought at Lowton will do; it struck me that

it would be just of the quality for the calico chemises, and I sorted the needles

You may tell Miss Smith that I forgot to make a memorandum of the darning needles,

but she shall have some papers sent in next week; and she is not, on any account, to

pupil: if they have more, they are apt to be careless and lose them.

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