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1,260 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/17.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Jane Eyre/section_15_part_0.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 2.chapter 16 | chapter 16 | null | {"name": "Chapter 16", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820051427/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmJaneEyre36.asp", "summary": "The next morning, Jane is shocked to see Grace Poole sitting and sewing rings for the new curtains in Mr. Rochester's room. Grace seems cool and composed. Jane tries t... |
I both wished and feared to see Mr. Rochester on the day which followed
this sleepless night: I wanted to hear his voice again, yet feared to
meet his eye. During the early part of the morning, I momentarily
expected his coming; he was not in the frequent habit of entering the
schoolroom, but he did step in for a fe... | 5,518 | Chapter 16 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820051427/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmJaneEyre36.asp | The next morning, Jane is shocked to see Grace Poole sitting and sewing rings for the new curtains in Mr. Rochester's room. Grace seems cool and composed. Jane tries to question her, and Grace in turn attempts to cross-examine her. Jane wonders why Mr. Rochester has not had her arrested for the crime. As Jane has not s... | Notes In this chapter Jane has an encounter with Grace Poole. She wonders what hold such an unattractive person can possibly have over Mr. Rochester. Significantly the chapter begins with Jane's wish and fear to see Rochester. She wants to hear his voice again, yet fears to meet his eye. When Mrs. Fairfax tells her whe... | 282 | 227 |
1,260 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/18.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Jane Eyre/section_16_part_0.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 2.chapter 17 | chapter 17 | null | {"name": "Chapter 17", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820051427/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmJaneEyre37.asp", "summary": "Mr. Rochester remains away from Thornfield for the next few days, and Jane begins to experience a sickening sense of disappointment. However, she keeps reminding herse... |
A week passed, and no news arrived of Mr. Rochester: ten days, and still
he did not come. Mrs. Fairfax said she should not be surprised if he
were to go straight from the Leas to London, and thence to the Continent,
and not show his face again at Thornfield for a year to come; he had not
unfrequently quitted it in a... | 12,053 | Chapter 17 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820051427/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmJaneEyre37.asp | Mr. Rochester remains away from Thornfield for the next few days, and Jane begins to experience a sickening sense of disappointment. However, she keeps reminding herself that Mr. Rochester is nothing more than her employer. Soon Mrs. Fairfax receives a letter from Mr. Rochester, asking her to make arrangements to accom... | Notes Seeing Mr. Rochester once again stirs Jane's emotions. On comparing him with his guests, Jane recognizes the emotional and spiritual affinity between Rochester and herself: "He is not of their kind. I believe he is of mine-I am sure he is-I feel akin to him-I understand the language of his countenance and movemen... | 347 | 322 |
1,260 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/19.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Jane Eyre/section_17_part_0.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 2.chapter 18 | chapter 18 | null | {"name": "Chapter 18", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820051427/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmJaneEyre39.asp", "summary": "The gloomy atmosphere of Thornfield changes, yielding to cheerfulness and activity. When it rains continuously for some days, the guests find indoor amusements. One ev... |
Merry days were these at Thornfield Hall; and busy days too: how
different from the first three months of stillness, monotony, and
solitude I had passed beneath its roof! All sad feelings seemed now
driven from the house, all gloomy associations forgotten: there was life
everywhere, movement all day long. You could... | 8,811 | Chapter 18 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820051427/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmJaneEyre39.asp | The gloomy atmosphere of Thornfield changes, yielding to cheerfulness and activity. When it rains continuously for some days, the guests find indoor amusements. One evening, the guests decide to play charades, and Jane watches them from a distance. She finds it impossible to give up her love for Mr. Rochester. She also... | Notes In this chapter the reader is presented with the superficial conversations and empty pleasures of Mr. Rochester's guests as they seek to amuse themselves in their host's absence. One can see both their materialism and their insensitivity. Against these rich idlers of society, Mr. Rochester stands out as a passion... | 390 | 271 |
1,260 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/20.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Jane Eyre/section_18_part_0.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 2.chapter 19 | chapter 19 | null | {"name": "Chapter 19", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820051427/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmJaneEyre41.asp", "summary": "Jane speaks to the gypsy with the utmost caution. At any rate she does not reveal her feelings for Mr. Rochester. The gypsy tells her strange things. She seems to know... |
The library looked tranquil enough as I entered it, and the Sibyl--if
Sibyl she were--was seated snugly enough in an easy-chair at the chimney-
corner. She had on a red cloak and a black bonnet: or rather, a broad-
brimmed gipsy hat, tied down with a striped handkerchief under her chin.
An extinguished candle stood ... | 5,632 | Chapter 19 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820051427/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmJaneEyre41.asp | Jane speaks to the gypsy with the utmost caution. At any rate she does not reveal her feelings for Mr. Rochester. The gypsy tells her strange things. She seems to know the most personal things about her and is even able to guess that Jane " some secret hope to buoy and please with whispers of the future." This disclo... | Notes Mr. Rochester, disguised as a gypsy, makes an indirect declaration of his love under the pretext of predicting Jane's fortune. In this guise Mr. Rochester likewise admits that Blanche is more interested in his affluence than in himself as a person. It is clear that he has not been persuaded by her flirtatious adv... | 314 | 285 |
1,260 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/21.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Jane Eyre/section_19_part_0.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 2.chapter 20 | chapter 20 | null | {"name": "Chapter 20", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820051427/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmJaneEyre42.asp", "summary": "Jane is woken up by the moonlight streaming in through the window. She hears a piercing scream accompanied by the sound of a struggle coming from the third floor. She ... |
I had forgotten to draw my curtain, which I usually did, and also to let
down my window-blind. The consequence was, that when the moon, which was
full and bright (for the night was fine), came in her course to that
space in the sky opposite my casement, and looked in at me through the
unveiled panes, her glorious ga... | 8,868 | Chapter 20 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820051427/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmJaneEyre42.asp | Jane is woken up by the moonlight streaming in through the window. She hears a piercing scream accompanied by the sound of a struggle coming from the third floor. She rushes out and discovers the guests in great agitation, standing in the corridor. Mr. Rochester, descending from the third story, gently persuades them t... | Notes This chapter abounds with elements of horror: screaming, blood, and the suggestion of a violent woman's presence. However, Charlotte Bronte relieves the tension in this chapter by giving comic descriptions of Mr. Rochester's guests clinging to him in fear: "he two dowagers, in vast white wrappers, were bearing do... | 424 | 227 |
1,260 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/22.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Jane Eyre/section_20_part_0.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 2.chapter 21 | chapter 21 | null | {"name": "Chapter 21", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820051427/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmJaneEyre44.asp", "summary": "For a few days, Jane has a recurring dream of a child. This seems to her a premonition of some distressing event, and the next day, the coachman arrives from Gateshead... |
Presentiments are strange things! and so are sympathies; and so are
signs; and the three combined make one mystery to which humanity has not
yet found the key. I never laughed at presentiments in my life, because
I have had strange ones of my own. Sympathies, I believe, exist (for
instance, between far-distant, lon... | 12,839 | Chapter 21 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820051427/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmJaneEyre44.asp | For a few days, Jane has a recurring dream of a child. This seems to her a premonition of some distressing event, and the next day, the coachman arrives from Gateshead with the news of John Reed's death and Mrs. Reed's terminal illness. Jane is eager to answer Mrs. Reed's summons. Jane goes to Mr. Rochester to ask for ... | Notes In this chapter, Jane once again confronts the self-indulgent world of the Reeds. It has degenerated into emotional withering in Eliza, witless frivolity in Georgiana and premature death for their harassed mother. Jane's return to Gateshead Hall demonstrates how independent and self-assured she has become. She no... | 365 | 252 |
1,260 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/23.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Jane Eyre/section_21_part_0.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 2.chapter 22 | chapter 22 | null | {"name": "Chapter 22", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820051427/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmJaneEyre45.asp", "summary": "After Mrs. Reed's funeral, both Eliza and Georgiana entreat Jane to stay on and help them. Jane tolerates Georgiana's \"feeble minded wailings\" for some time. Then Ge... |
Mr. Rochester had given me but one week's leave of absence: yet a month
elapsed before I quitted Gateshead. I wished to leave immediately after
the funeral, but Georgiana entreated me to stay till she could get off to
London, whither she was now at last invited by her uncle, Mr. Gibson, who
had come down to direct h... | 4,054 | Chapter 22 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820051427/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmJaneEyre45.asp | After Mrs. Reed's funeral, both Eliza and Georgiana entreat Jane to stay on and help them. Jane tolerates Georgiana's "feeble minded wailings" for some time. Then Georgiana is invited to London by her uncle. She later on marries a "wealthy, worn-out man of fashion." A week later, Eliza leaves for the continent. She ent... | Notes After Mrs. Reed's funeral, Charlotte Bronte gets another opportunity to expose the selfishness of the Reed sisters. Jane's return to Thornfield is delayed by her cousins' selfish demands. Having served as convenient targets for Bronte's contempt, Eliza and Georgiana are dispatched to their futile destinies: "ne t... | 424 | 183 |
1,260 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/24.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Jane Eyre/section_22_part_0.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 2.chapter 23 | chapter 23 | null | {"name": "Chapter 23", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820051427/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmJaneEyre47.asp", "summary": "It is summer at Thornfield Hall. One midsummer night, Jane goes for a stroll in the orchard. On seeing Mr. Rochester, she tries to sneak off, but he calls to her to jo... |
A splendid Midsummer shone over England: skies so pure, suns so radiant
as were then seen in long succession, seldom favour even singly, our wave-
girt land. It was as if a band of Italian days had come from the South,
like a flock of glorious passenger birds, and lighted to rest them on the
cliffs of Albion. The h... | 5,999 | Chapter 23 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820051427/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmJaneEyre47.asp | It is summer at Thornfield Hall. One midsummer night, Jane goes for a stroll in the orchard. On seeing Mr. Rochester, she tries to sneak off, but he calls to her to join him. In a casual manner he informs her that he has decided to get married to Blanche very soon. He wants to carry out her suggestion of sending Adele ... | Notes The chapter begins in summer splendor and ends in the violence of a storm that signals further destruction. This is an example of pathetic fallacy . The chapter is also tinged with irony. When Mr. Rochester asks Jane to be his wife, she replies: "your bride stands between us." She is thinking of Blanche, but spea... | 281 | 339 |
1,260 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/25.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Jane Eyre/section_23_part_0.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 2.chapter 24 | chapter 24 | null | {"name": "Chapter 24", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820051427/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmJaneEyre48.asp", "summary": "The tempest of the previous night is followed by a bright and brilliant morning. The experience of love has brought a glow to Jane's complexion and she seems prettier.... |
As I rose and dressed, I thought over what had happened, and wondered if
it were a dream. I could not be certain of the reality till I had seen
Mr. Rochester again, and heard him renew his words of love and promise.
While arranging my hair, I looked at my face in the glass, and felt it
was no longer plain: there wa... | 10,718 | Chapter 24 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820051427/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmJaneEyre48.asp | The tempest of the previous night is followed by a bright and brilliant morning. The experience of love has brought a glow to Jane's complexion and she seems prettier. Again, Mr. Rochester showers her with caresses. He informs her that he intends to marry her within a month. Jane is absolutely ecstatic but still consid... | Notes Jane is thoroughly modern in her attitude to the approaching marriage. She loves Mr. Rochester but feels humiliated at the thought of being economically dependent on him. She also faces a spiritual crisis. She confesses that Mr. Rochester "stood between her and every thought of religion. . . and that she could no... | 511 | 250 |
1,260 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/26.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Jane Eyre/section_24_part_0.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 2.chapter 25 | chapter 25 | null | {"name": "Chapter 25", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820051427/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmJaneEyre50.asp", "summary": "The night before the wedding, Jane becomes uneasy because of a dream she has had. As Mr. Rochester is away on business, Jane is not able to communicate the episode to ... |
The month of courtship had wasted: its very last hours were being
numbered. There was no putting off the day that advanced--the bridal
day; and all preparations for its arrival were complete. _I_, at least,
had nothing more to do: there were my trunks, packed, locked, corded,
ranged in a row along the wall of my li... | 7,482 | Chapter 25 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820051427/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmJaneEyre50.asp | The night before the wedding, Jane becomes uneasy because of a dream she has had. As Mr. Rochester is away on business, Jane is not able to communicate the episode to him. While anxiously waiting for him, she wanders about in the orchard, unprotected from the wind and the rain. Then she sets off down the road for a wal... | Notes Jane's dream reveals her emotional distress. Jane is a witness to the partial destruction of the chestnut tree. The trunk, split through the center, gapes in a ghastly manner. "The clover halves were not broken from each other, for the firm base and strong roots kept them unscendered below." The two halves are th... | 451 | 351 |
1,260 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/27.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Jane Eyre/section_25_part_0.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 3.chapter 26 | chapter 26 | null | {"name": "Chapter 26", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820051427/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmJaneEyre52.asp", "summary": "On the wedding day, Sophie helps Jane into her bridal gown. Jane can hardly recognize herself in this unusual attire. Rochester shows impatience in all his actions. He... |
Sophie came at seven to dress me: she was very long indeed in
accomplishing her task; so long that Mr. Rochester, grown, I suppose,
impatient of my delay, sent up to ask why I did not come. She was just
fastening my veil (the plain square of blond after all) to my hair with a
brooch; I hurried from under her hands a... | 6,565 | Chapter 26 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820051427/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmJaneEyre52.asp | On the wedding day, Sophie helps Jane into her bridal gown. Jane can hardly recognize herself in this unusual attire. Rochester shows impatience in all his actions. He orders that the carriage be kept ready to take him and Jane to London as soon as they return from the church. He then hurries Jane to the ceremony. The ... | Notes This chapter offers an important revelation about Mr. Rochester's character: knowing that he could not offer her an honorable marriage, he encouraged Jane to fall in love with him. He deliberately committed a serious crime. His plan to marry Jane appears to be an extension of his enslavement by Bertha. The reader... | 495 | 194 |
1,260 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/29.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Jane Eyre/section_27_part_0.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 3.chapter 28 | chapter 28 | null | {"name": "Chapter 28", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820051427/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmJaneEyre55.asp", "summary": "After two days, the coachman leaves Jane at Whitcross. She spends the night on the moors. The next day she tries to find work or food but finds that no one is ready to... |
Two days are passed. It is a summer evening; the coachman has set me
down at a place called Whitcross; he could take me no farther for the sum
I had given, and I was not possessed of another shilling in the world.
The coach is a mile off by this time; I am alone. At this moment I
discover that I forgot to take my p... | 10,248 | Chapter 28 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820051427/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmJaneEyre55.asp | After two days, the coachman leaves Jane at Whitcross. She spends the night on the moors. The next day she tries to find work or food but finds that no one is ready to help her. She is forced to spend the next night also in the open, and the weather turns cold and wet. She tries to meet the clergyman, but he is away on... | Notes During her wanderings through the moorland, Jane tries to get food, shelter and sympathy, but she faces rejection everywhere. Jane finds that "to die of want and cold is a fate to which nature cannot submit passively." She finds it impossible to be resigned to misery, like Helen Burns. The language throughout thi... | 275 | 165 |
1,260 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/30.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Jane Eyre/section_28_part_0.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 3.chapter 29 | chapter 29 | null | {"name": "Chapter 29", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820051427/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmJaneEyre56.asp", "summary": "Jane remains ill in bed for a few days. Eventually, she is able to dress and go downstairs to the kitchen. She finds Hannah, the servant, stemming gooseberries and off... |
The recollection of about three days and nights succeeding this is very
dim in my mind. I can recall some sensations felt in that interval; but
few thoughts framed, and no actions performed. I knew I was in a small
room and in a narrow bed. To that bed I seemed to have grown; I lay on
it motionless as a stone; and... | 6,640 | Chapter 29 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820051427/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmJaneEyre56.asp | Jane remains ill in bed for a few days. Eventually, she is able to dress and go downstairs to the kitchen. She finds Hannah, the servant, stemming gooseberries and offers to help her. Since Hannah has spent a long time with the family, Jane is sure that she must be a very loyal hand. Hannah thanks her for the complimen... | Notes This chapter introduces the members of the Rivers household. Mary is kind but not as learned as Diana. St. John is handsome and reserved. Of the three, Diana is the most loving and friendly. Diana is an idealized version of Jane: quiet, spiritual and self-composed. All three members of the Rivers household have a... | 320 | 199 |
1,260 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/31.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Jane Eyre/section_29_part_0.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 3.chapter 30 | chapter 30 | null | {"name": "Chapter 30", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820051427/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmJaneEyre57.asp", "summary": "Jane leads a happy life at Marsh End. She finds that Diana and Mary are more learned than she is, and so she happily gains knowledge from them. They share a mutual int... |
The more I knew of the inmates of Moor House, the better I liked them. In
a few days I had so far recovered my health that I could sit up all day,
and walk out sometimes. I could join with Diana and Mary in all their
occupations; converse with them as much as they wished, and aid them when
and where they would allo... | 5,412 | Chapter 30 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820051427/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmJaneEyre57.asp | Jane leads a happy life at Marsh End. She finds that Diana and Mary are more learned than she is, and so she happily gains knowledge from them. They share a mutual interest in books and begin to share ideas among themselves. Jane sees that Diana is the head of the household and appreciates her the most. Diana teaches J... | Notes At Moor House, Jane finds the happiness arising from "congeniality of tastes": ". . . with eagerness, I followed in the path of knowledge they had trodden before me. I devoured the book they lent me: then it was full satisfaction to discuss with them in the evening what I had perused during the day. Thought fille... | 352 | 334 |
1,260 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/32.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Jane Eyre/section_30_part_0.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 3.chapter 31 | chapter 31 | null | {"name": "Chapter 31", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820051427/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmJaneEyre58.asp", "summary": "Jane starts her work in the village school at Morton. She contemplates her future. She has already become aware of the ignorance and lack of refinement in her pupils. ... |
My home, then, when I at last find a home,--is a cottage; a little room
with whitewashed walls and a sanded floor, containing four painted chairs
and a table, a clock, a cupboard, with two or three plates and dishes,
and a set of tea-things in delf. Above, a chamber of the same dimensions
as the kitchen, with a deal... | 4,575 | Chapter 31 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820051427/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmJaneEyre58.asp | Jane starts her work in the village school at Morton. She contemplates her future. She has already become aware of the ignorance and lack of refinement in her pupils. Although she is aware of her own feelings of isolation and depression, she is sure that in time she will learn to love her work. She thanks God that she ... | Notes The author now presents Jane's lack of a sense of fulfillment in her present life and work. Although she acknowledges all the advantages of her new post, she cannot help feeling desolate. This indicates the conflict in her life, as well as her growing depression. She cannot reconcile herself to a life without lov... | 346 | 324 |
1,260 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/33.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Jane Eyre/section_31_part_0.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 3.chapter 32 | chapter 32 | null | {"name": "Chapter 32", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820051427/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmJaneEyre60.asp", "summary": "Jane settles down in the village school and becomes a popular schoolmistress. Her days pass pleasantly, but her nights are tormented by dreams of Mr. Rochester. St. Jo... |
I continued the labours of the village-school as actively and faithfully
as I could. It was truly hard work at first. Some time elapsed before,
with all my efforts, I could comprehend my scholars and their nature.
Wholly untaught, with faculties quite torpid, they seemed to me
hopelessly dull; and, at first sight, ... | 6,712 | Chapter 32 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820051427/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmJaneEyre60.asp | Jane settles down in the village school and becomes a popular schoolmistress. Her days pass pleasantly, but her nights are tormented by dreams of Mr. Rochester. St. John visits the school everyday to give his catechism lesson, and Rosamond times her visits to coincide with his. The fact that he is secretly attracted to... | Notes This chapter shows both Jane and St. John suppressing their true emotions. St. John seems to be suffering from denying his natural impulses and passions. Jane also suffers, but she never denies her true feelings. Jane compares John's suppression to a different kind of fire. His "heart is already laid on a sacred ... | 249 | 330 |
1,260 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/34.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Jane Eyre/section_32_part_0.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 3.chapter 33 | chapter 33 | null | {"name": "Chapter 33", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820051427/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmJaneEyre61.asp", "summary": "The next evening, St. John makes his way through the snow with some important news for Jane. He has received a letter from Mr. Briggs, a lawyer, inquiring about a pers... |
When Mr. St. John went, it was beginning to snow; the whirling storm
continued all night. The next day a keen wind brought fresh and blinding
falls; by twilight the valley was drifted up and almost impassable. I
had closed my shutter, laid a mat to the door to prevent the snow from
blowing in under it, trimmed my f... | 7,184 | Chapter 33 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820051427/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmJaneEyre61.asp | The next evening, St. John makes his way through the snow with some important news for Jane. He has received a letter from Mr. Briggs, a lawyer, inquiring about a person called Jane Eyre, whose history strongly resembles hers. He even narrates the account of her story and reveals that he knows her real name, which she ... | Notes The chapter reveals the basic incompatibility between St. John and Jane. It is like the incompatibility of fire with water. St. John visits Jane's little cottage in a snowstorm. He brings her the news of her inheritance and reveals important details of family history. Jane has never seen such a "tall figure white... | 368 | 212 |
1,260 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/35.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Jane Eyre/section_33_part_0.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 3.chapter 34 | chapter 34 | null | {"name": "Chapter 34", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820051427/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmJaneEyre62.asp", "summary": "A week before Christmas, Jane closes the school and undertakes a thorough cleaning of Moor House to welcome Diana and Mary home for Christmas. The three girls spend a ... |
It was near Christmas by the time all was settled: the season of general
holiday approached. I now closed Morton school, taking care that the
parting should not be barren on my side. Good fortune opens the hand as
well as the heart wonderfully; and to give somewhat when we have largely
received, is but to afford a ... | 13,476 | Chapter 34 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820051427/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmJaneEyre62.asp | A week before Christmas, Jane closes the school and undertakes a thorough cleaning of Moor House to welcome Diana and Mary home for Christmas. The three girls spend a happy week enjoying their newfound independence, but St. John is irritated by their merriment and vivacity. He does not appreciate Jane's efforts to rede... | Notes In this chapter, Jane persistently returns to the imagery of water and earth in forms suggestive of hardness, coldness and destructiveness. Ice, rock, stone, torrents and avalanches are used to express her physical and emotional alienation from St. John. There may be some significance in Rivers' name; the imagery... | 446 | 350 |
1,260 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/36.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Jane Eyre/section_34_part_0.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 3.chapter 35 | chapter 35 | null | {"name": "Chapter 35", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820051427/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmJaneEyre64.asp", "summary": "St. John postpones his departure for Cambridge by a week. While he remains at Moor House, he makes Jane feel guilty for some wrong she has committed against him. He re... |
He did not leave for Cambridge the next day, as he had said he would. He
deferred his departure a whole week, and during that time he made me feel
what severe punishment a good yet stern, a conscientious yet implacable
man can inflict on one who has offended him. Without one overt act of
hostility, one upbraiding w... | 6,302 | Chapter 35 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820051427/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmJaneEyre64.asp | St. John postpones his departure for Cambridge by a week. While he remains at Moor House, he makes Jane feel guilty for some wrong she has committed against him. He refuses even to be friendly with her. Seeing that Jane still nurtures a loving concern for Mr. Rochester, he feels he was mistaken in believing her to be o... | Notes Jane's struggle is long and hard. It is no less intense than that symbolized by her life at Thornfield. Since providence has brought them together, it is difficult for Jane to be sure that it has not also intended her to be the wife of St. John. Only when St. John invokes God's name in support of a false ideal of... | 203 | 246 |
1,260 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/37.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Jane Eyre/section_35_part_0.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 3.chapter 36 | chapter 36 | null | {"name": "Chapter 36", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820051427/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmJaneEyre65.asp", "summary": "The next day, St. John leaves for Cambridge after writing a note to Jane in which he urges her to reconsider her decision. Jane informs Diana and Mary that she will be... |
The daylight came. I rose at dawn. I busied myself for an hour or two
with arranging my things in my chamber, drawers, and wardrobe, in the
order wherein I should wish to leave them during a brief absence.
Meantime, I heard St. John quit his room. He stopped at my door: I
feared he would knock--no, but a slip of p... | 5,820 | Chapter 36 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820051427/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmJaneEyre65.asp | The next day, St. John leaves for Cambridge after writing a note to Jane in which he urges her to reconsider her decision. Jane informs Diana and Mary that she will be away for four days to see a friend. She takes a coach to Thornfield, where her ardent hopes and expectations are shattered: Thornfield Hall is in ruins.... | Notes The innkeeper brings a sense of suspense to this episode. His manner of relating past events tests the reader's patience. He repeatedly mentions the "late" Mr. Rochester and causes Jane to worry that the man she loves is dead. The innkeeper also presents an "insider's" view of Thornfield because he once worked th... | 210 | 127 |
1,260 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/38.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Jane Eyre/section_36_part_0.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 3.chapter 37 | chapter 37 | null | {"name": "Chapter 37", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820051427/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmJaneEyre66.asp", "summary": "It is evening by the time Jane arrives at Ferndean. She sees Mr. Rochester groping his way out into the twilight and then returning to the house. She finds him of the ... |
The manor-house of Ferndean was a building of considerable antiquity,
moderate size, and no architectural pretensions, deep buried in a wood. I
had heard of it before. Mr. Rochester often spoke of it, and sometimes
went there. His father had purchased the estate for the sake of the game
covers. He would have let ... | 11,261 | Chapter 37 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820051427/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmJaneEyre66.asp | It is evening by the time Jane arrives at Ferndean. She sees Mr. Rochester groping his way out into the twilight and then returning to the house. She finds him of the same physical aspect as before, except that his face wears a "brooding" look. She announces herself to Mary and John who are taking care of Mr. Rochester... | Notes The mood of this section at Ferndean is that of reconciliation. There are overtones of temporizing and of lessons learned, that give this chapter a quiet, autumnal quality. It is difficult to believe that the Jane of this chapter is still only nineteen years old, perhaps because her attitudes have matured and bec... | 425 | 305 |
1,260 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/39.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Jane Eyre/section_37_part_0.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 3.chapter 38 | chapter 38 | null | {"name": "Chapter 38", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820051427/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmJaneEyre67.asp", "summary": "Jane and Mr. Rochester have now been happily married for a period of ten years. Diana and Mary are happy for her, but St. John does not seem to be. He corresponds with... |
Reader, I married him. A quiet wedding we had: he and I, the parson and
clerk, were alone present. When we got back from church, I went into the
kitchen of the manor-house, where Mary was cooking the dinner and John
cleaning the knives, and I said--
"Mary, I have been married to Mr. Rochester this morning." The
h... | 2,607 | Chapter 38 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820051427/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmJaneEyre67.asp | Jane and Mr. Rochester have now been happily married for a period of ten years. Diana and Mary are happy for her, but St. John does not seem to be. He corresponds with Jane but does not make any reference to her marriage. Jane visits Adele and brings her home from a school where she is not happy. She sends her to a bet... | Notes Jane and Mr. Rochester marry, not in that violent, physical anguish in which the reader sees them early in the novel, but in a calmer, nobler mood. Neither the flesh nor the spirit will tear Jane again. She emerges victorious from the ordeals of her life. She is neither debased nor an ascetic, but a woman who has... | 244 | 234 |
1,260 | true | bookwolf | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/volume_1_chapters_1_to_2.txt | finished_summaries/bookwolf/Jane Eyre/section_0_part_0.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 1.chapters 1-2 | chapters 1-2 | null | {"name": "Chapters 1-2", "summary": "A lonely 10-year old girl, Jane feels rejected and unloved, living in the home of her aunt, Sarah Reed. Her aunt is only concerned with her own three children and looks after Jane, an orphan, only due to the promise she made to her husband on his deathbed that she would look after J... |
There was no possibility of taking a walk that day. We had been
wandering, indeed, in the leafless shrubbery an hour in the morning; but
since dinner (Mrs. Reed, when there was no company, dined early) the cold
winter wind had brought with it clouds so sombre, and a rain so
penetrating, that further out-door exercis... | 7,068 | Chapters 1-2 | null | A lonely 10-year old girl, Jane feels rejected and unloved, living in the home of her aunt, Sarah Reed. Her aunt is only concerned with her own three children and looks after Jane, an orphan, only due to the promise she made to her husband on his deathbed that she would look after Jane, his sister's daughter, as one of... | Interpretation This book tells the story of Jane Eyre and is in a first person narrative form. It is important that the reader tries to get inside the skin of Jane in order to appreciate how isolated and unloved she feels. She never knew her parents, as they died when she was baby. This theme of loneliness and the hars... | 216 | 224 |
1,260 | true | bookwolf | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/volume_1_chapters_3_to_4.txt | finished_summaries/bookwolf/Jane Eyre/section_1_part_0.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 1.chapters 3-4 | chapters 3-4 | null | {"name": "Chapters 3-4", "summary": "Jane awakes in her bed tended by Bessie, a maid, and Jane's only friend in Gateshead Hall. An apothecary, Mr. Lloyd, examines Jane, and feeling that she can no longer endure the treatment handed out by her aunt and cousins, she confides in Mr. Lloyd, who suggests that she might be h... |
The next thing I remember is, waking up with a feeling as if I had had a
frightful nightmare, and seeing before me a terrible red glare, crossed
with thick black bars. I heard voices, too, speaking with a hollow
sound, and as if muffled by a rush of wind or water: agitation,
uncertainty, and an all-predominating sen... | 13,301 | Chapters 3-4 | null | Jane awakes in her bed tended by Bessie, a maid, and Jane's only friend in Gateshead Hall. An apothecary, Mr. Lloyd, examines Jane, and feeling that she can no longer endure the treatment handed out by her aunt and cousins, she confides in Mr. Lloyd, who suggests that she might be happier in a Boarding School, and he a... | Interpretation These chapters explain further Jane's plight. Apart from the maid, Bessie, she receives no kindness at all. The other servants look down on her, and her cousins bully her. Even when Mr. Lloyd talks with her, he is not totally sympathetic to her position, although he does suggest that she may be better of... | 425 | 346 |
1,260 | true | bookwolf | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/volume_1_chapters_5_to_6.txt | finished_summaries/bookwolf/Jane Eyre/section_2_part_0.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 1.chapters 5-6 | chapters 5-6 | null | {"name": "Chapters 5-6", "summary": "Jane arrives at Lowood School just after dark having said farewell to Gateshead Hall, and only Bessie wished her well. One of the teachers, Miss Miller, brings Jane in to the main schoolroom where seventy plus girls aged between 9 and 20 study their lessons. Jane soon fits into the ... |
Five o'clock had hardly struck on the morning of the 19th of January,
when Bessie brought a candle into my closet and found me already up and
nearly dressed. I had risen half-an-hour before her entrance, and had
washed my face, and put on my clothes by the light of a half-moon just
setting, whose rays streamed throu... | 11,288 | Chapters 5-6 | null | Jane arrives at Lowood School just after dark having said farewell to Gateshead Hall, and only Bessie wished her well. One of the teachers, Miss Miller, brings Jane in to the main schoolroom where seventy plus girls aged between 9 and 20 study their lessons. Jane soon fits into the daily routine of the school, which st... | Interpretation Bront' provides a vivid description of life in this Boarding School. The orphaned girls wore drab uniforms which included a straw bonnet and a gray cloak which they used whilst outside. The meals consist of burned porridge, bread and cheese, and stew and potatoes, but with very little meat. Sometimes the... | 302 | 184 |
1,260 | true | bookwolf | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/volume_1_chapters_7_to_8.txt | finished_summaries/bookwolf/Jane Eyre/section_3_part_0.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 1.chapters 7-8 | chapters 7-8 | null | {"name": "Chapters 7-8", "summary": "The area is gripped by a severe winter and the girls struggle to keep out the cold, being inadequately fed and clothed. They are still forced to struggle along the almost impassable road that leads to the church, every Sunday. Mr. Brocklehurst, the manager of Lowood School visits to... |
My first quarter at Lowood seemed an age; and not the golden age either;
it comprised an irksome struggle with difficulties in habituating myself
to new rules and unwonted tasks. The fear of failure in these points
harassed me worse than the physical hardships of my lot; though these
were no trifles.
During January... | 9,429 | Chapters 7-8 | null | The area is gripped by a severe winter and the girls struggle to keep out the cold, being inadequately fed and clothed. They are still forced to struggle along the almost impassable road that leads to the church, every Sunday. Mr. Brocklehurst, the manager of Lowood School visits to assess how the supplies are being us... | Interpretation Bront' realized that this was a grim tale, and so she helped lighten it with brief bouts of comedy. In particular, she takes the opportunity of poking fun at the hypocritical Brocklehurst. Fortunately, he is not involved directly with the teaching of the girls, for he is even crueler than Miss Scratcherd... | 324 | 224 |
1,260 | true | bookwolf | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/volume_1_chapters_13_to_14.txt | finished_summaries/bookwolf/Jane Eyre/section_6_part_0.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 1.chapters 13-14 | chapters 13-14 | null | {"name": "Chapters 13-14", "summary": "Life at Thornfield changes through Mr. Rochester's presence. The servants seem to have more purpose in their work and Jane is ousted from the library, and has to make alternative arrangements for a classroom. Mr. Rochester continues in his cantankerous mood, but is overly interest... |
Mr. Rochester, it seems, by the surgeon's orders, went to bed early that
night; nor did he rise soon next morning. When he did come down, it was
to attend to business: his agent and some of his tenants were arrived,
and waiting to speak with him.
Adele and I had now to vacate the library: it would be in daily
requi... | 13,439 | Chapters 13-14 | null | Life at Thornfield changes through Mr. Rochester's presence. The servants seem to have more purpose in their work and Jane is ousted from the library, and has to make alternative arrangements for a classroom. Mr. Rochester continues in his cantankerous mood, but is overly interested in Jane, wishing to know her skills ... | Interpretation It is evident that Rochester is the guiding force in Thornfield, which comes to life when he reappears from his travels. The reader is also aware that he has more than a passing interest in Jane, who after all is just another servant in the household. Their conversation soon becomes quite personal and he... | 233 | 253 |
1,260 | true | bookwolf | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/volume_2_chapters_15_to_16.txt | finished_summaries/bookwolf/Jane Eyre/section_7_part_0.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 2.chapters 15-16 | chapters 15-16 | null | {"name": "Chapters 15-16", "summary": "Jane narrates some of the story of Rochester's affair with Ad'le's mother. She appealed to Rochester's male ego through flattery and he believed that she returned the feelings he had for her. However, one night he discovered her with a young Viscount and she proceeded to mock Roch... |
Mr. Rochester did, on a future occasion, explain it. It was one
afternoon, when he chanced to meet me and Adele in the grounds: and while
she played with Pilot and her shuttlecock, he asked me to walk up and
down a long beech avenue within sight of her.
He then said that she was the daughter of a French opera-dance... | 13,057 | Chapters 15-16 | null | Jane narrates some of the story of Rochester's affair with Ad'le's mother. She appealed to Rochester's male ego through flattery and he believed that she returned the feelings he had for her. However, one night he discovered her with a young Viscount and she proceeded to mock Rochester's unhandsome appearance. He ended... | Interpretation The Gothic tone returns to the storyline. Mysterious noises awaken Jane and she discovers the fire in Rochester's bedroom. Without Jane's intervention, Rochester may have been killed as he was in a deep sleep. Rochester acknowledges this by saying, "Why, you have saved my life - snatched me from a horrib... | 408 | 372 |
1,260 | true | bookwolf | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/volume_2_chapters_17_to_18.txt | finished_summaries/bookwolf/Jane Eyre/section_8_part_0.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 2.chapters 17-18 | chapters 17-18 | null | {"name": "Chapters 17-18", "summary": "Jane cannot help missing Rochester and she longs for his return. A letter is received giving the servants notice that Rochester will return in a few days to continue the party at Thornfield. There is now great activity from all the servants, cleaning, polishing, cooking etc. Jane ... |
A week passed, and no news arrived of Mr. Rochester: ten days, and still
he did not come. Mrs. Fairfax said she should not be surprised if he
were to go straight from the Leas to London, and thence to the Continent,
and not show his face again at Thornfield for a year to come; he had not
unfrequently quitted it in a... | 20,863 | Chapters 17-18 | null | Jane cannot help missing Rochester and she longs for his return. A letter is received giving the servants notice that Rochester will return in a few days to continue the party at Thornfield. There is now great activity from all the servants, cleaning, polishing, cooking etc. Jane also learns that Grace Poole receives f... | Interpretation Bront' provides us with two different viewpoints regarding the company of partygoers - one from Ad'le and one from Jane. Ad'le views the party and those attending with great excitement. This must be a real break in routine for her and this will provide an insight to her of what she might expect when she ... | 356 | 350 |
1,260 | false | bookwolf | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/20.txt | finished_summaries/bookwolf/Jane Eyre/section_9_part_0.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 2.chapter 19 | chapter 19 | null | {"name": "Chapter 19", "summary": "Jane describes the gypsy as a sibyl , who goes on to read the fortunes of all those present apart from Jane. She insists on having her private audience with Jane before she leaves the house. Out of curiosity Jane enters the darkened room and approaches the gypsy. Jane tells the gypsy ... |
The library looked tranquil enough as I entered it, and the Sibyl--if
Sibyl she were--was seated snugly enough in an easy-chair at the chimney-
corner. She had on a red cloak and a black bonnet: or rather, a broad-
brimmed gipsy hat, tied down with a striped handkerchief under her chin.
An extinguished candle stood ... | 5,632 | Chapter 19 | null | Jane describes the gypsy as a sibyl , who goes on to read the fortunes of all those present apart from Jane. She insists on having her private audience with Jane before she leaves the house. Out of curiosity Jane enters the darkened room and approaches the gypsy. Jane tells the gypsy that she does not believe such nons... | Interpretation There is a vague Gothic tone in these chapters, with the introduction of the 'gypsy'. The scene is set in a darkened room with the old hag predicting the future for the guests at Thornfield. When Jane is summoned, she goes out of curiosity and perhaps she should be in fear of such practices. The pipe-smo... | 335 | 178 |
1,260 | false | bookwolf | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/21.txt | finished_summaries/bookwolf/Jane Eyre/section_10_part_0.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 2.chapter 20 | chapter 20 | null | {"name": "Chapter 20", "summary": "A heart-stopping shriek fills Thornfield Hall and Rochester explains it as one of the servants having had a nightmare. He rushes upstairs and Jane soon joins him, and they find Richard Mason soaked in blood. From the adjacent room, Grace Poole's distinctive cackle can be heard. Roches... |
I had forgotten to draw my curtain, which I usually did, and also to let
down my window-blind. The consequence was, that when the moon, which was
full and bright (for the night was fine), came in her course to that
space in the sky opposite my casement, and looked in at me through the
unveiled panes, her glorious ga... | 8,868 | Chapter 20 | null | A heart-stopping shriek fills Thornfield Hall and Rochester explains it as one of the servants having had a nightmare. He rushes upstairs and Jane soon joins him, and they find Richard Mason soaked in blood. From the adjacent room, Grace Poole's distinctive cackle can be heard. Rochester gives Jane instructions on how ... | Interpretation The Gothic theme continues into this chapter. It starts with cries for help. The silence of the night was shattered by a savage, sharp, shrilly sound that filled Thornfield Hall. Rochester explains that it must be one of the servants having a nightmare. Little do they know of the nightmare that resides o... | 227 | 317 |
1,260 | false | bookwolf | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/22.txt | finished_summaries/bookwolf/Jane Eyre/section_11_part_0.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 2.chapter 21 | chapter 21 | null | {"name": "Chapter 21", "summary": "A growing sense of unease takes hold of Jane and she only sleeps fitfully. She has a recurring dream concerning a babe in arms, and she takes this as an ill omen. She then receives news that her cousin John Reed, the child that bullied her, has died and suicide is suspected. Her aunt ... |
Presentiments are strange things! and so are sympathies; and so are
signs; and the three combined make one mystery to which humanity has not
yet found the key. I never laughed at presentiments in my life, because
I have had strange ones of my own. Sympathies, I believe, exist (for
instance, between far-distant, lon... | 12,839 | Chapter 21 | null | A growing sense of unease takes hold of Jane and she only sleeps fitfully. She has a recurring dream concerning a babe in arms, and she takes this as an ill omen. She then receives news that her cousin John Reed, the child that bullied her, has died and suicide is suspected. Her aunt Sarah Reed has suffered a stroke an... | Interpretation From the description given of the life in Gateshead Hall, it is not surprising to the reader the way in which Sarah Reed's children have turned out. The spoilt son continued his outrageous undisciplined behavior, running up huge gambling debts, which have brought poverty to the whole family. The two daug... | 385 | 201 |
1,260 | false | bookwolf | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/23.txt | finished_summaries/bookwolf/Jane Eyre/section_12_part_0.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 2.chapter 22 | chapter 22 | null | {"name": "Chapter 22", "summary": "It has been a month since Jane left Thornfield, and on her return to Millcote, she decides to walk the remaining distance to Thornfield. In a letter she had received from Mrs. Fairfax, she learns that the house party has ended and that Mr. Rochester had gone to London to purchase a ca... |
Mr. Rochester had given me but one week's leave of absence: yet a month
elapsed before I quitted Gateshead. I wished to leave immediately after
the funeral, but Georgiana entreated me to stay till she could get off to
London, whither she was now at last invited by her uncle, Mr. Gibson, who
had come down to direct h... | 4,054 | Chapter 22 | null | It has been a month since Jane left Thornfield, and on her return to Millcote, she decides to walk the remaining distance to Thornfield. In a letter she had received from Mrs. Fairfax, she learns that the house party has ended and that Mr. Rochester had gone to London to purchase a carriage. Rumors abound concerning hi... | Interpretation Our heroine has apparently obtained security in her life at Thornfield. She enjoys the respect of the servants, the love of a child Ad'le, and support from Rochester, the man she loves, and he clearly is fond of her. She wishes for no change in this arrangement. She is happy to be near Rochester and have... | 358 | 150 |
1,260 | false | bookwolf | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/27.txt | finished_summaries/bookwolf/Jane Eyre/section_15_part_0.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 3.chapter 26 | chapter 26 | null | {"name": "Chapter 26", "summary": "Jane looks at herself in the mirror, dressed, and ready for her marriage to Rochester. When Rochester sees her he says, Fair as a lily, and not only the pride of his life, but the desire of his eyes.\" They walk hand-in-hand to the church, and the Minister asks if anyone knows of any ... |
Sophie came at seven to dress me: she was very long indeed in
accomplishing her task; so long that Mr. Rochester, grown, I suppose,
impatient of my delay, sent up to ask why I did not come. She was just
fastening my veil (the plain square of blond after all) to my hair with a
brooch; I hurried from under her hands a... | 6,565 | Chapter 26 | null | Jane looks at herself in the mirror, dressed, and ready for her marriage to Rochester. When Rochester sees her he says, Fair as a lily, and not only the pride of his life, but the desire of his eyes." They walk hand-in-hand to the church, and the Minister asks if anyone knows of any impediment to their marriage. Mr. Br... | Interpretation There is much imagery in this chapter. At last the reader comes face-to-face with Mrs. Rochester, and the circumstances concerning this marriage come to the fore. Rochester and his family had been tricked into this arranged marriage, which was designed to bring security to both families. He had suffered ... | 490 | 104 |
1,260 | true | bookwolf | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/volume_3_chapters_27_to_28.txt | finished_summaries/bookwolf/Jane Eyre/section_16_part_0.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 3.chapters 27-28 | chapter 27-28 | null | {"name": "Chapter 27-28", "summary": "It is nearly the end of the day before Jane emerges from her room, but she is already resolved to leave Thornfield where she has been so happy. She fears that if she remains, she will be tempted to become Rochester's mistress. Rochester explains the circumstances behind the wedding... |
Some time in the afternoon I raised my head, and looking round and seeing
the western sun gilding the sign of its decline on the wall, I asked,
"What am I to do?"
But the answer my mind gave--"Leave Thornfield at once"--was so prompt,
so dread, that I stopped my ears. I said I could not bear such words
now. "That ... | 26,556 | Chapter 27-28 | null | It is nearly the end of the day before Jane emerges from her room, but she is already resolved to leave Thornfield where she has been so happy. She fears that if she remains, she will be tempted to become Rochester's mistress. Rochester explains the circumstances behind the wedding - how he was tricked into marrying Be... | Interpretation Although Jane is shocked at the revelation that Rochester is already married, she is not broken. As we have seen she has great fortitude and is a survivor, and although her love for Rochester is ailing, it can be revived although she does not see this. It is Rochester who is broken by these events - his ... | 245 | 158 |
1,260 | true | bookwolf | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/volume_3_chapters_29_to_30.txt | finished_summaries/bookwolf/Jane Eyre/section_17_part_0.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 3.chapters 29-30 | chapters 29-30 | null | {"name": "Chapters 29-30", "summary": "It takes Jane a few days to recover and regain her strength. She is made at home in the Rivers household, and St. John soon discovers that she is an educated person. Not wishing to reveal her past, Jane calls herself 'Jane Elliott'. St. John is a parson and very handsome, but he i... |
The recollection of about three days and nights succeeding this is very
dim in my mind. I can recall some sensations felt in that interval; but
few thoughts framed, and no actions performed. I knew I was in a small
room and in a narrow bed. To that bed I seemed to have grown; I lay on
it motionless as a stone; and... | 12,051 | Chapters 29-30 | null | It takes Jane a few days to recover and regain her strength. She is made at home in the Rivers household, and St. John soon discovers that she is an educated person. Not wishing to reveal her past, Jane calls herself 'Jane Elliott'. St. John is a parson and very handsome, but he is on a mission to do God's work and he ... | Interpretation We are provided with clear details regarding the personalities of the Rivers household. St. John is fair-haired and handsome and receives great respect from his sisters. He is a parson to a small parish in Morton, but is dedicated to his duties, and exercises great pastoral care over his flock. His life ... | 339 | 127 |
1,260 | true | bookwolf | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/volume_3_chapters_31_to_32.txt | finished_summaries/bookwolf/Jane Eyre/section_18_part_0.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 3.chapters 31-32 | chapters 31-32 | null | {"name": "Chapters 31-32", "summary": "Jane moves into her cottage and a little orphan girl serves her as a handmaid. Her pupils at the school have very limited education. Only a few can read, and none can write or do arithmetic. She believes that she is in God's hands, for he has guided her away from a life as a mistr... |
My home, then, when I at last find a home,--is a cottage; a little room
with whitewashed walls and a sanded floor, containing four painted chairs
and a table, a clock, a cupboard, with two or three plates and dishes,
and a set of tea-things in delf. Above, a chamber of the same dimensions
as the kitchen, with a deal... | 11,286 | Chapters 31-32 | null | Jane moves into her cottage and a little orphan girl serves her as a handmaid. Her pupils at the school have very limited education. Only a few can read, and none can write or do arithmetic. She believes that she is in God's hands, for he has guided her away from a life as a mistress with Rochester, who said that they ... | Interpretation Whilst Jane was at Thornfield she slowly let her heart take over from her head when ruling her affairs. She has now reverted back to having her head dictate her actions, and she has subdued the feelings in her heart. In order to forget about the past, she immerses herself in her work to the benefit of th... | 301 | 155 |
1,260 | true | bookwolf | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/volume_3_chapters_33_to_34.txt | finished_summaries/bookwolf/Jane Eyre/section_19_part_0.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 3.chapters 33-34 | chapters 33-34 | null | {"name": "Chapters 33-34", "summary": "St. John and Jane have a long talk. He has discovered her true identity, for the strip of paper that he tore off one of her sketches had her name 'Jane Eyre' on it. He recounts Jane's life story and then continues the tale after she fled from Thornfield, saying that a lawyer, Mr. ... |
When Mr. St. John went, it was beginning to snow; the whirling storm
continued all night. The next day a keen wind brought fresh and blinding
falls; by twilight the valley was drifted up and almost impassable. I
had closed my shutter, laid a mat to the door to prevent the snow from
blowing in under it, trimmed my f... | 20,659 | Chapters 33-34 | null | St. John and Jane have a long talk. He has discovered her true identity, for the strip of paper that he tore off one of her sketches had her name 'Jane Eyre' on it. He recounts Jane's life story and then continues the tale after she fled from Thornfield, saying that a lawyer, Mr. Briggs, is urgently seeking Jane concer... | Interpretation We get further information concerning St. John's makeup. He is surprised at Jane's reaction to the letter concerning the death of her Uncle John. She shows sadness at the loss of a relative, delight that she has found new relatives in the Rivers family, and only then does she appreciate the inheritance s... | 456 | 192 |
1,260 | false | novelguide | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/02.txt | finished_summaries/novelguide/Jane Eyre/section_0_part_1.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 1.chapter 1 | chapter 1 | null | {"name": "volume 1, Chapter 1", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201020200836/https://www.novelguide.com/jane-eyre/novel-summary", "summary": "Chapter one introduces Jane, the narrator of the story, her aunt Mrs. Reed, and her cousins, Eliza, John and Georgiana Reed. Ten-year old Jane lives at the Reed's Gateshead... |
There was no possibility of taking a walk that day. We had been
wandering, indeed, in the leafless shrubbery an hour in the morning; but
since dinner (Mrs. Reed, when there was no company, dined early) the cold
winter wind had brought with it clouds so sombre, and a rain so
penetrating, that further out-door exercis... | 2,928 | volume 1, Chapter 1 | https://web.archive.org/web/20201020200836/https://www.novelguide.com/jane-eyre/novel-summary | Chapter one introduces Jane, the narrator of the story, her aunt Mrs. Reed, and her cousins, Eliza, John and Georgiana Reed. Ten-year old Jane lives at the Reed's Gateshead Hall. It becomes obvious that Jane's place in the household is not a comfortable one, and Mrs. Reed does not think highly of her. Jane tries to rem... | null | 232 | 1 |
1,260 | false | novelguide | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/03.txt | finished_summaries/novelguide/Jane Eyre/section_0_part_2.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 1.chapter 2 | chapter 2 | null | {"name": "volume 1, Chapter 2", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201020200836/https://www.novelguide.com/jane-eyre/novel-summary", "summary": "\"I resisted all the way: a new thing for me. Jane states as Bessie, the nurse, tries to take her away. She tells Jane that she should not act so, as she is in debt to Mrs.... |
I resisted all the way: a new thing for me, and a circumstance which
greatly strengthened the bad opinion Bessie and Miss Abbot were disposed
to entertain of me. The fact is, I was a trifle beside myself; or rather
_out_ of myself, as the French would say: I was conscious that a moment's
mutiny had already rendered ... | 4,141 | volume 1, Chapter 2 | https://web.archive.org/web/20201020200836/https://www.novelguide.com/jane-eyre/novel-summary | "I resisted all the way: a new thing for me. Jane states as Bessie, the nurse, tries to take her away. She tells Jane that she should not act so, as she is in debt to Mrs. Reed and is not equal to the Misses or Mr. Reed. When Bessie leaves her alone, Jane wonders why it is that she is always thought to be bad no matter... | null | 204 | 1 |
1,260 | false | novelguide | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/04.txt | finished_summaries/novelguide/Jane Eyre/section_1_part_1.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 1.chapter 3 | chapter 3 | null | {"name": "volume 1, Chapter 3", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201020200836/https://www.novelguide.com/jane-eyre/summaries/chap3-4", "summary": "The next thing Jane remembers is waking up in her own bed. Mr. Lloyd, the apothecary, comes to see her, and the next day she is up and about, though her nerves are stil... |
The next thing I remember is, waking up with a feeling as if I had had a
frightful nightmare, and seeing before me a terrible red glare, crossed
with thick black bars. I heard voices, too, speaking with a hollow
sound, and as if muffled by a rush of wind or water: agitation,
uncertainty, and an all-predominating sen... | 4,746 | volume 1, Chapter 3 | https://web.archive.org/web/20201020200836/https://www.novelguide.com/jane-eyre/summaries/chap3-4 | The next thing Jane remembers is waking up in her own bed. Mr. Lloyd, the apothecary, comes to see her, and the next day she is up and about, though her nerves are still shaken. Bessie is especially nice to Jane, but Jane feels as if she cannot eat or read. Bessie sings to her, and Jane gets sad over her state and crie... | null | 248 | 1 |
1,260 | false | novelguide | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/05.txt | finished_summaries/novelguide/Jane Eyre/section_1_part_2.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 1.chapter 4 | chapter 4 | null | {"name": "volume 1, Chapter 4", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201020200836/https://www.novelguide.com/jane-eyre/summaries/chap3-4", "summary": "Weeks pass without mention of Jane going to school. When Jane hears Mrs. Reed telling John not to talk to Jane, Jane replies that he and his sisters are not fit to asso... |
From my discourse with Mr. Lloyd, and from the above reported conference
between Bessie and Abbot, I gathered enough of hope to suffice as a
motive for wishing to get well: a change seemed near,--I desired and
waited it in silence. It tarried, however: days and weeks passed: I had
regained my normal state of health,... | 8,556 | volume 1, Chapter 4 | https://web.archive.org/web/20201020200836/https://www.novelguide.com/jane-eyre/summaries/chap3-4 | Weeks pass without mention of Jane going to school. When Jane hears Mrs. Reed telling John not to talk to Jane, Jane replies that he and his sisters are not fit to associate with her. Mrs. Reed becomes angry and locks Jane in her room. Jane wonders to Mrs. Reed what her uncle, mother and father would say about her beha... | null | 347 | 1 |
1,260 | false | novelguide | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/06.txt | finished_summaries/novelguide/Jane Eyre/section_2_part_1.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 1.chapter 5 | chapter 5 | null | {"name": "volume 1, Chapter 5", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201020200836/https://www.novelguide.com/jane-eyre/summaries/chap5-6", "summary": "On the morning of the nineteenth Jane is ready early for her carriage ride to Lowood. She does not wake Mrs. Reed or her children, as the night before Mrs. Reed had tol... |
Five o'clock had hardly struck on the morning of the 19th of January,
when Bessie brought a candle into my closet and found me already up and
nearly dressed. I had risen half-an-hour before her entrance, and had
washed my face, and put on my clothes by the light of a half-moon just
setting, whose rays streamed throu... | 7,185 | volume 1, Chapter 5 | https://web.archive.org/web/20201020200836/https://www.novelguide.com/jane-eyre/summaries/chap5-6 | On the morning of the nineteenth Jane is ready early for her carriage ride to Lowood. She does not wake Mrs. Reed or her children, as the night before Mrs. Reed had told her that there was no need for it. Jane is too excited to eat, and Bessie walks her to the coach stop. On the coach ride they pass through many towns,... | null | 455 | 1 |
1,260 | false | novelguide | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/07.txt | finished_summaries/novelguide/Jane Eyre/section_2_part_2.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 1.chapter 6 | chapter 6 | null | {"name": "volume 1, Chapter 6", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201020200836/https://www.novelguide.com/jane-eyre/summaries/chap5-6", "summary": "The next day the girls get up and dress, but there is no washing, as the water in the basins had frozen overnight. It is very cold in the school, and when Jane gets her... |
The next day commenced as before, getting up and dressing by rushlight;
but this morning we were obliged to dispense with the ceremony of
washing; the water in the pitchers was frozen. A change had taken place
in the weather the preceding evening, and a keen north-east wind,
whistling through the crevices of our bed... | 4,104 | volume 1, Chapter 6 | https://web.archive.org/web/20201020200836/https://www.novelguide.com/jane-eyre/summaries/chap5-6 | The next day the girls get up and dress, but there is no washing, as the water in the basins had frozen overnight. It is very cold in the school, and when Jane gets her porridge, while it is not burnt, it is a small portion. Jane is enrolled in the fourth class, and at first finds it hard, as she is not used to learnin... | null | 214 | 1 |
1,260 | false | novelguide | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/08.txt | finished_summaries/novelguide/Jane Eyre/section_3_part_1.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 1.chapter 7 | chapter 7 | null | {"name": "volume 1, Chapter 7", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201020200836/https://www.novelguide.com/jane-eyre/summaries/chap7-8", "summary": "The first quarter at Lowood passes, and it is so cold that the girls' feet get swollen from the walk in the cold to church. The girls do not have sufficient clothes for... |
My first quarter at Lowood seemed an age; and not the golden age either;
it comprised an irksome struggle with difficulties in habituating myself
to new rules and unwonted tasks. The fear of failure in these points
harassed me worse than the physical hardships of my lot; though these
were no trifles.
During January... | 5,143 | volume 1, Chapter 7 | https://web.archive.org/web/20201020200836/https://www.novelguide.com/jane-eyre/summaries/chap7-8 | The first quarter at Lowood passes, and it is so cold that the girls' feet get swollen from the walk in the cold to church. The girls do not have sufficient clothes for such weather, and they do not have enough food. One day Mr. Brocklehurst arrives, and Jane is scared that he will do as he had said and speak against h... | null | 281 | 1 |
1,260 | false | novelguide | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/09.txt | finished_summaries/novelguide/Jane Eyre/section_3_part_2.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 1.chapter 8 | chapter 8 | null | {"name": "volume 1, Chapter 8", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201020200836/https://www.novelguide.com/jane-eyre/summaries/chap7-8", "summary": "When the half-hour ends, the other girls have gone to tea, and Jane gets off the stool and weeps. Helen brings her coffee and bread, and tells her that the others will ... |
Ere the half-hour ended, five o'clock struck; school was dismissed, and
all were gone into the refectory to tea. I now ventured to descend: it
was deep dusk; I retired into a corner and sat down on the floor. The
spell by which I had been so far supported began to dissolve; reaction
took place, and soon, so overwhe... | 4,287 | volume 1, Chapter 8 | https://web.archive.org/web/20201020200836/https://www.novelguide.com/jane-eyre/summaries/chap7-8 | When the half-hour ends, the other girls have gone to tea, and Jane gets off the stool and weeps. Helen brings her coffee and bread, and tells her that the others will not scorn her because of what happened, as they do not like Mr. Brocklehurst. Soon Miss Temple arrives and asks them to her room where she gives them te... | null | 260 | 1 |
1,260 | false | novelguide | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/10.txt | finished_summaries/novelguide/Jane Eyre/section_4_part_1.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 1.chapter 9 | chapter 9 | null | {"name": "volume 1, Chapter 9", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201020200836/https://www.novelguide.com/jane-eyre/summaries/chap9-10", "summary": "When spring comes, the hardships because of the weather are lessened at Lowood. However, typhus has struck the school, and the schoolroom and dormitory are transformed... |
But the privations, or rather the hardships, of Lowood lessened. Spring
drew on: she was indeed already come; the frosts of winter had ceased;
its snows were melted, its cutting winds ameliorated. My wretched feet,
flayed and swollen to lameness by the sharp air of January, began to heal
and subside under the gentl... | 4,598 | volume 1, Chapter 9 | https://web.archive.org/web/20201020200836/https://www.novelguide.com/jane-eyre/summaries/chap9-10 | When spring comes, the hardships because of the weather are lessened at Lowood. However, typhus has struck the school, and the schoolroom and dormitory are transformed into a hospital. Forty-five of the eighty girls are sick, and many have left or died. Those who are not sick are often left to themselves, as is Jane. H... | null | 234 | 1 |
1,260 | false | novelguide | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/11.txt | finished_summaries/novelguide/Jane Eyre/section_4_part_2.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 1.chapter 10 | chapter 10 | null | {"name": "volume 1, Chapter 10", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201020200836/https://www.novelguide.com/jane-eyre/summaries/chap9-10", "summary": "While the first nine chapters cover Jane's life through age ten, the next chapter covers eight years in a page. When the public learns of how many had died from typhu... |
Hitherto I have recorded in detail the events of my insignificant
existence: to the first ten years of my life I have given almost as many
chapters. But this is not to be a regular autobiography. I am only
bound to invoke Memory where I know her responses will possess some
degree of interest; therefore I now pass a... | 6,138 | volume 1, Chapter 10 | https://web.archive.org/web/20201020200836/https://www.novelguide.com/jane-eyre/summaries/chap9-10 | While the first nine chapters cover Jane's life through age ten, the next chapter covers eight years in a page. When the public learns of how many had died from typhus at the school and how bad the food and clothes were, many wealthy individuals come forth and build a new building and make new regulations and improveme... | null | 430 | 1 |
1,260 | false | novelguide | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/13.txt | finished_summaries/novelguide/Jane Eyre/section_5_part_2.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 1.chapter 12 | chapter 12 | null | {"name": "volume 1, Chapter 12", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201020200836/https://www.novelguide.com/jane-eyre/summaries/chap11-12", "summary": "Jane has been at Thornfield for a little while now, and still believes that she will have a smooth career there. She feels that she is making reasonable progress wit... |
The promise of a smooth career, which my first calm introduction to
Thornfield Hall seemed to pledge, was not belied on a longer acquaintance
with the place and its inmates. Mrs. Fairfax turned out to be what she
appeared, a placid-tempered, kind-natured woman, of competent education
and average intelligence. My pu... | 6,137 | volume 1, Chapter 12 | https://web.archive.org/web/20201020200836/https://www.novelguide.com/jane-eyre/summaries/chap11-12 | Jane has been at Thornfield for a little while now, and still believes that she will have a smooth career there. She feels that she is making reasonable progress with Adele although the girl has no great talents. After working with her one day, Jane takes a walk alone up to the third story. There she looks out at the v... | null | 381 | 1 |
1,260 | false | novelguide | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/14.txt | finished_summaries/novelguide/Jane Eyre/section_6_part_1.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 1.chapter 13 | chapter 13 | null | {"name": "volume 1, Chapter 13", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201020200836/https://www.novelguide.com/jane-eyre/summaries/chap13-14", "summary": "The next day Mrs. Fairfax comes to tell Jane that Mr. Rochester would like Jane and Adele to have tea with him in the evening, and tells Jane that she should change ... |
Mr. Rochester, it seems, by the surgeon's orders, went to bed early that
night; nor did he rise soon next morning. When he did come down, it was
to attend to business: his agent and some of his tenants were arrived,
and waiting to speak with him.
Adele and I had now to vacate the library: it would be in daily
requi... | 6,020 | volume 1, Chapter 13 | https://web.archive.org/web/20201020200836/https://www.novelguide.com/jane-eyre/summaries/chap13-14 | The next day Mrs. Fairfax comes to tell Jane that Mr. Rochester would like Jane and Adele to have tea with him in the evening, and tells Jane that she should change her frock. Jane changes into a silk black frock instead of the drab black one she usually wears. When Adele and Jane enter for tea, Mr. Rochester does not ... | null | 240 | 1 |
1,260 | false | novelguide | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/15.txt | finished_summaries/novelguide/Jane Eyre/section_6_part_2.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 1.chapter 14 | chapter 14 | null | {"name": "volume 1, Chapter 14", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201020200836/https://www.novelguide.com/jane-eyre/summaries/chap13-14", "summary": "For the next several days Jane sees little of Mr. Rochester, but then he calls Adele and her to meet with him. He gives Adele the box of presents he had brought for ... |
For several subsequent days I saw little of Mr. Rochester. In the
mornings he seemed much engaged with business, and, in the afternoon,
gentlemen from Millcote or the neighbourhood called, and sometimes stayed
to dine with him. When his sprain was well enough to admit of horse
exercise, he rode out a good deal; pro... | 7,420 | volume 1, Chapter 14 | https://web.archive.org/web/20201020200836/https://www.novelguide.com/jane-eyre/summaries/chap13-14 | For the next several days Jane sees little of Mr. Rochester, but then he calls Adele and her to meet with him. He gives Adele the box of presents he had brought for her to keep her occupied. Then he calls Mrs. Fairfax in to talk to Adele so that she will not disturb him. Jane and Mr. Rochester talk, and he asks her if ... | null | 213 | 1 |
1,260 | false | novelguide | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/16.txt | finished_summaries/novelguide/Jane Eyre/section_7_part_1.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 1.chapter 15 | chapter 15 | null | {"name": "volume 1, Chapter 15", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201020200836/https://www.novelguide.com/jane-eyre/summaries/chap15-16", "summary": "One afternoon when they happen to meet while walking, Rochester does tell Jane more of Adele. He says that she is the daughter of a French opera-dancer that he was i... |
Mr. Rochester did, on a future occasion, explain it. It was one
afternoon, when he chanced to meet me and Adele in the grounds: and while
she played with Pilot and her shuttlecock, he asked me to walk up and
down a long beech avenue within sight of her.
He then said that she was the daughter of a French opera-dance... | 7,540 | volume 1, Chapter 15 | https://web.archive.org/web/20201020200836/https://www.novelguide.com/jane-eyre/summaries/chap15-16 | One afternoon when they happen to meet while walking, Rochester does tell Jane more of Adele. He says that she is the daughter of a French opera-dancer that he was in love with and whom he supplied with a hotel and money etc. When he saw her with another man making fun of him, he took all he had given away from her. Sh... | null | 433 | 1 |
1,260 | false | novelguide | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/17.txt | finished_summaries/novelguide/Jane Eyre/section_7_part_2.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 2.chapter 16 | chapter 16 | null | {"name": "volume 1, Chapter 16", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201020200836/https://www.novelguide.com/jane-eyre/summaries/chap15-16", "summary": "The next day Jane is anxious to talk to Mr. Rochester about the night before. She is quite surprised when she sees Grace Poole in Rochester's room with another serva... |
I both wished and feared to see Mr. Rochester on the day which followed
this sleepless night: I wanted to hear his voice again, yet feared to
meet his eye. During the early part of the morning, I momentarily
expected his coming; he was not in the frequent habit of entering the
schoolroom, but he did step in for a fe... | 5,518 | volume 1, Chapter 16 | https://web.archive.org/web/20201020200836/https://www.novelguide.com/jane-eyre/summaries/chap15-16 | The next day Jane is anxious to talk to Mr. Rochester about the night before. She is quite surprised when she sees Grace Poole in Rochester's room with another servant mending curtains. Jane questions Grace about what happened there the night before, putting her to a test, and Grace tells her that the master left a can... | null | 351 | 1 |
1,260 | false | novelguide | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/20.txt | finished_summaries/novelguide/Jane Eyre/section_9_part_1.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 2.chapter 19 | chapter 19 | null | {"name": "volume 2, Chapter 19", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201020200836/https://www.novelguide.com/jane-eyre/summaries/chap19-20", "summary": "Jane enters the room and tells the gypsy that she can tell her fortune, but that she has no faith. They talk for a while, and the gypsy tells Jane that she knows tha... |
The library looked tranquil enough as I entered it, and the Sibyl--if
Sibyl she were--was seated snugly enough in an easy-chair at the chimney-
corner. She had on a red cloak and a black bonnet: or rather, a broad-
brimmed gipsy hat, tied down with a striped handkerchief under her chin.
An extinguished candle stood ... | 5,632 | volume 2, Chapter 19 | https://web.archive.org/web/20201020200836/https://www.novelguide.com/jane-eyre/summaries/chap19-20 | Jane enters the room and tells the gypsy that she can tell her fortune, but that she has no faith. They talk for a while, and the gypsy tells Jane that she knows that she sits with the rest of the party every night, and asks if she studies one person more than the others. Jane says that she looks at them all. The gypsy... | null | 293 | 1 |
1,260 | false | novelguide | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/21.txt | finished_summaries/novelguide/Jane Eyre/section_9_part_2.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 2.chapter 20 | chapter 20 | null | {"name": "volume 2, Chapter 20", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201020200836/https://www.novelguide.com/jane-eyre/summaries/chap19-20", "summary": "In the middle of the night Jane hears a shrill cry from the end of the hall. It is coming from the third story, and she can hear someone yelling 'Help,' and calling ... |
I had forgotten to draw my curtain, which I usually did, and also to let
down my window-blind. The consequence was, that when the moon, which was
full and bright (for the night was fine), came in her course to that
space in the sky opposite my casement, and looked in at me through the
unveiled panes, her glorious ga... | 8,868 | volume 2, Chapter 20 | https://web.archive.org/web/20201020200836/https://www.novelguide.com/jane-eyre/summaries/chap19-20 | In the middle of the night Jane hears a shrill cry from the end of the hall. It is coming from the third story, and she can hear someone yelling 'Help,' and calling for Rochester. She hears someone running and the noise stopping, but soon all of the guests are awake and wondering what is going on. Rochester returns fro... | null | 480 | 1 |
1,260 | false | novelguide | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/23.txt | finished_summaries/novelguide/Jane Eyre/section_10_part_2.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 2.chapter 22 | chapter 22 | null | {"name": "volume 2, Chapter 22", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201020200836/https://www.novelguide.com/jane-eyre/summaries/chap21-22", "summary": "Mr. Rochester had asked Jane to be gone only a week, but already she had been gone more than a month when she finally begins her return to Thornfield. She has heard ... |
Mr. Rochester had given me but one week's leave of absence: yet a month
elapsed before I quitted Gateshead. I wished to leave immediately after
the funeral, but Georgiana entreated me to stay till she could get off to
London, whither she was now at last invited by her uncle, Mr. Gibson, who
had come down to direct h... | 4,054 | volume 2, Chapter 22 | https://web.archive.org/web/20201020200836/https://www.novelguide.com/jane-eyre/summaries/chap21-22 | Mr. Rochester had asked Jane to be gone only a week, but already she had been gone more than a month when she finally begins her return to Thornfield. She has heard from Mrs. Fairfax that the party at Thornfield had dispersed and that Mr. Rochester had gone to London for a few weeks to buy a new carriage in preparation... | null | 219 | 1 |
1,260 | false | novelguide | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/24.txt | finished_summaries/novelguide/Jane Eyre/section_11_part_1.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 2.chapter 23 | chapter 23 | null | {"name": "volume 2, Chapter 23", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201020200836/https://www.novelguide.com/jane-eyre/summaries/chap23-24", "summary": "One evening while Jane is walking in the park she meets Rochester. He asks Jane if she will be sorry to leave Thornfield. She says that she will, and Rochester tells... |
A splendid Midsummer shone over England: skies so pure, suns so radiant
as were then seen in long succession, seldom favour even singly, our wave-
girt land. It was as if a band of Italian days had come from the South,
like a flock of glorious passenger birds, and lighted to rest them on the
cliffs of Albion. The h... | 5,999 | volume 2, Chapter 23 | https://web.archive.org/web/20201020200836/https://www.novelguide.com/jane-eyre/summaries/chap23-24 | One evening while Jane is walking in the park she meets Rochester. He asks Jane if she will be sorry to leave Thornfield. She says that she will, and Rochester tells her that he must give her notice. He tells her that he has found her a position with a Mrs. Dionysius O'Gall in Ireland. Jane says that she will be sorry ... | null | 193 | 1 |
1,260 | false | novelguide | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/25.txt | finished_summaries/novelguide/Jane Eyre/section_11_part_2.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 2.chapter 24 | chapter 24 | null | {"name": "volume 2, Chapter 24", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201020200836/https://www.novelguide.com/jane-eyre/summaries/chap23-24", "summary": "The next day Rochester tells Jane that they will be married in four weeks and that they will travel to Paris, Rome and Naples. He then tells her to ask of him anythi... |
As I rose and dressed, I thought over what had happened, and wondered if
it were a dream. I could not be certain of the reality till I had seen
Mr. Rochester again, and heard him renew his words of love and promise.
While arranging my hair, I looked at my face in the glass, and felt it
was no longer plain: there wa... | 10,718 | volume 2, Chapter 24 | https://web.archive.org/web/20201020200836/https://www.novelguide.com/jane-eyre/summaries/chap23-24 | The next day Rochester tells Jane that they will be married in four weeks and that they will travel to Paris, Rome and Naples. He then tells her to ask of him anything, and she says that she has been curious about something. Rochester gets quite serious and his demeanor changes, but he is relieved when Jane only asks w... | null | 397 | 1 |
1,260 | false | novelguide | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/26.txt | finished_summaries/novelguide/Jane Eyre/section_12_part_1.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 2.chapter 25 | chapter 25 | null | {"name": "volume 2, Chapter 25", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201020200836/https://www.novelguide.com/jane-eyre/summaries/chap25-26", "summary": "The night before the wedding Jane feels anxious that Mr. Rochester is still away on his errands, and when the time of his supposed return far passes, she runs out in... |
The month of courtship had wasted: its very last hours were being
numbered. There was no putting off the day that advanced--the bridal
day; and all preparations for its arrival were complete. _I_, at least,
had nothing more to do: there were my trunks, packed, locked, corded,
ranged in a row along the wall of my li... | 7,482 | volume 2, Chapter 25 | https://web.archive.org/web/20201020200836/https://www.novelguide.com/jane-eyre/summaries/chap25-26 | The night before the wedding Jane feels anxious that Mr. Rochester is still away on his errands, and when the time of his supposed return far passes, she runs out into the wind and rain to meet him. She comes upon him riding home, and he takes her on the horse back to the house. They eat supper, and Jane tells Rocheste... | null | 341 | 1 |
1,260 | false | novelguide | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/27.txt | finished_summaries/novelguide/Jane Eyre/section_12_part_2.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 3.chapter 26 | chapter 26 | null | {"name": "volume 2, Chapter 26", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201020200836/https://www.novelguide.com/jane-eyre/summaries/chap25-26", "summary": "As they walk to the church the next morning, Jane sees two strangers enter it. During the ceremony, when the clergyman asks them if either have any reason why they c... |
Sophie came at seven to dress me: she was very long indeed in
accomplishing her task; so long that Mr. Rochester, grown, I suppose,
impatient of my delay, sent up to ask why I did not come. She was just
fastening my veil (the plain square of blond after all) to my hair with a
brooch; I hurried from under her hands a... | 6,565 | volume 2, Chapter 26 | https://web.archive.org/web/20201020200836/https://www.novelguide.com/jane-eyre/summaries/chap25-26 | As they walk to the church the next morning, Jane sees two strangers enter it. During the ceremony, when the clergyman asks them if either have any reason why they cannot be wed, one of the strangers steps forward and says that Mr. Rochester is already married. He states that he was married to Bertha Antoinetta Mason i... | null | 363 | 1 |
1,260 | false | novelguide | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/29.txt | finished_summaries/novelguide/Jane Eyre/section_13_part_2.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 3.chapter 28 | chapter 28 | null | {"name": "volume 3, Chapter 28", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201020200836/https://www.novelguide.com/jane-eyre/summaries/chap27-28", "summary": "Two days have passed since Jane left Thornfield, and the money that she had could only allow the driver to take her as far as Whitcross, which is not even a town, bu... |
Two days are passed. It is a summer evening; the coachman has set me
down at a place called Whitcross; he could take me no farther for the sum
I had given, and I was not possessed of another shilling in the world.
The coach is a mile off by this time; I am alone. At this moment I
discover that I forgot to take my p... | 10,248 | volume 3, Chapter 28 | https://web.archive.org/web/20201020200836/https://www.novelguide.com/jane-eyre/summaries/chap27-28 | Two days have passed since Jane left Thornfield, and the money that she had could only allow the driver to take her as far as Whitcross, which is not even a town, but a crossroads. Jane had forgotten her parcel on the coach, so now realizes she is quite penniless and destitute. She spends the night outside, and the nex... | null | 450 | 1 |
1,260 | false | novelguide | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/30.txt | finished_summaries/novelguide/Jane Eyre/section_14_part_1.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 3.chapter 29 | chapter 29 | null | {"name": "volume 3, Chapter 29", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201020200836/https://www.novelguide.com/jane-eyre/summaries/chap29-30", "summary": "For three days and nights Jane stays in bed and they tend to her. When she is finally able to arise, she finds her clothes have all be cleaned and are waiting for he... |
The recollection of about three days and nights succeeding this is very
dim in my mind. I can recall some sensations felt in that interval; but
few thoughts framed, and no actions performed. I knew I was in a small
room and in a narrow bed. To that bed I seemed to have grown; I lay on
it motionless as a stone; and... | 6,640 | volume 3, Chapter 29 | https://web.archive.org/web/20201020200836/https://www.novelguide.com/jane-eyre/summaries/chap29-30 | For three days and nights Jane stays in bed and they tend to her. When she is finally able to arise, she finds her clothes have all be cleaned and are waiting for her, and she goes downstairs. She there sees Hannah, the older woman, and after a talk they come to an understanding and Jane forgives her for not letting he... | null | 277 | 1 |
1,260 | false | novelguide | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/31.txt | finished_summaries/novelguide/Jane Eyre/section_14_part_2.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 3.chapter 30 | chapter 30 | null | {"name": "volume 3, Chapter 30", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201020200836/https://www.novelguide.com/jane-eyre/summaries/chap29-30", "summary": "Jane's stay at Moor House is quite pleasant. Diana, Mary and she get along very well and have much in common. They loan her books, and she draws for them, and they c... |
The more I knew of the inmates of Moor House, the better I liked them. In
a few days I had so far recovered my health that I could sit up all day,
and walk out sometimes. I could join with Diana and Mary in all their
occupations; converse with them as much as they wished, and aid them when
and where they would allo... | 5,412 | volume 3, Chapter 30 | https://web.archive.org/web/20201020200836/https://www.novelguide.com/jane-eyre/summaries/chap29-30 | Jane's stay at Moor House is quite pleasant. Diana, Mary and she get along very well and have much in common. They loan her books, and she draws for them, and they converse much. Jane does not get along so well with Mr. St. John though, but she explains that he is not much at the house and that his disposition is not l... | null | 331 | 1 |
1,260 | false | novelguide | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/32.txt | finished_summaries/novelguide/Jane Eyre/section_15_part_1.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 3.chapter 31 | chapter 31 | null | {"name": "volume 3, Chapter 31", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201020200836/https://www.novelguide.com/jane-eyre/summaries/chap31-32", "summary": "Jane describes her home in Morton as a cottage, and says that her furniture is useful yet humble. It is the evening of the first day of class, and Jane relates that ... |
My home, then, when I at last find a home,--is a cottage; a little room
with whitewashed walls and a sanded floor, containing four painted chairs
and a table, a clock, a cupboard, with two or three plates and dishes,
and a set of tea-things in delf. Above, a chamber of the same dimensions
as the kitchen, with a deal... | 4,575 | volume 3, Chapter 31 | https://web.archive.org/web/20201020200836/https://www.novelguide.com/jane-eyre/summaries/chap31-32 | Jane describes her home in Morton as a cottage, and says that her furniture is useful yet humble. It is the evening of the first day of class, and Jane relates that she has twenty students, only three of which can read. She sees challenges ahead, and though she feels that she may not enjoy her new life, she will try. J... | null | 278 | 1 |
1,260 | false | novelguide | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/33.txt | finished_summaries/novelguide/Jane Eyre/section_15_part_2.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 3.chapter 32 | chapter 32 | null | {"name": "volume 3, Chapter 32", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201020200836/https://www.novelguide.com/jane-eyre/summaries/chap31-32", "summary": "Jane continues her work at the school, and she soon notices that some of the girls are polite and try to do their work well, and this encourages her. She relates tha... |
I continued the labours of the village-school as actively and faithfully
as I could. It was truly hard work at first. Some time elapsed before,
with all my efforts, I could comprehend my scholars and their nature.
Wholly untaught, with faculties quite torpid, they seemed to me
hopelessly dull; and, at first sight, ... | 6,712 | volume 3, Chapter 32 | https://web.archive.org/web/20201020200836/https://www.novelguide.com/jane-eyre/summaries/chap31-32 | Jane continues her work at the school, and she soon notices that some of the girls are polite and try to do their work well, and this encourages her. She relates that she has become a favorite in the community, and that she often gets salutations and smiles. While she is happier now, she does have dreams at night of Mr... | null | 383 | 1 |
1,260 | false | novelguide | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/34.txt | finished_summaries/novelguide/Jane Eyre/section_16_part_1.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 3.chapter 33 | chapter 33 | null | {"name": "volume 3, Chapter 33", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201020200836/https://www.novelguide.com/jane-eyre/summaries/chap33-34", "summary": "The next day Jane is surprised by a visit from St. John. He is very excited, but does not immediately tell her why he has come. Eventually he begins to tell her a st... |
When Mr. St. John went, it was beginning to snow; the whirling storm
continued all night. The next day a keen wind brought fresh and blinding
falls; by twilight the valley was drifted up and almost impassable. I
had closed my shutter, laid a mat to the door to prevent the snow from
blowing in under it, trimmed my f... | 7,184 | volume 3, Chapter 33 | https://web.archive.org/web/20201020200836/https://www.novelguide.com/jane-eyre/summaries/chap33-34 | The next day Jane is surprised by a visit from St. John. He is very excited, but does not immediately tell her why he has come. Eventually he begins to tell her a story. He says that there was a clergyman and a woman who married and had a daughter. They died, and the girl was sent to a Mrs. Reed and then to Lowood Scho... | null | 368 | 1 |
1,260 | false | novelguide | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/36.txt | finished_summaries/novelguide/Jane Eyre/section_17_part_1.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 3.chapter 35 | chapter 35 | null | {"name": "volume 3, Chapter 35", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201020200836/https://www.novelguide.com/jane-eyre/summaries/chap35-36", "summary": "St. John does not leave for Cambridge the next day as he said he was going to, but he stays another week. During this time Jane sees that he had not forgotten all sh... |
He did not leave for Cambridge the next day, as he had said he would. He
deferred his departure a whole week, and during that time he made me feel
what severe punishment a good yet stern, a conscientious yet implacable
man can inflict on one who has offended him. Without one overt act of
hostility, one upbraiding w... | 6,302 | volume 3, Chapter 35 | https://web.archive.org/web/20201020200836/https://www.novelguide.com/jane-eyre/summaries/chap35-36 | St. John does not leave for Cambridge the next day as he said he was going to, but he stays another week. During this time Jane sees that he had not forgotten all she said to him. The night before he was to leave for Cambridge, Jane asks him to be friends with her. He says that he thought they were friends, but is not ... | null | 475 | 1 |
1,260 | false | novelguide | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/37.txt | finished_summaries/novelguide/Jane Eyre/section_17_part_2.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 3.chapter 36 | chapter 36 | null | {"name": "volume 3, Chapter 36", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201020200836/https://www.novelguide.com/jane-eyre/summaries/chap35-36", "summary": "Early in the morning Jane hears St. John leave while she is getting ready for her own journey. She tells Diana and Mary that she must go on a trip and in the afterno... |
The daylight came. I rose at dawn. I busied myself for an hour or two
with arranging my things in my chamber, drawers, and wardrobe, in the
order wherein I should wish to leave them during a brief absence.
Meantime, I heard St. John quit his room. He stopped at my door: I
feared he would knock--no, but a slip of p... | 5,820 | volume 3, Chapter 36 | https://web.archive.org/web/20201020200836/https://www.novelguide.com/jane-eyre/summaries/chap35-36 | Early in the morning Jane hears St. John leave while she is getting ready for her own journey. She tells Diana and Mary that she must go on a trip and in the afternoon goes to meet the coach. It takes thirty-six hours to get near Thornfield, and at the coach stop Jane starts to walk to the Hall. Jane is quite excited a... | null | 333 | 1 |
1,260 | false | novelguide | all_chapterized_books/1260-chapters/39.txt | finished_summaries/novelguide/Jane Eyre/section_18_part_2.txt | Jane Eyre.volume 3.chapter 38 | chapter 38 | null | {"name": "volume 3, Chapter 38", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201020200836/https://www.novelguide.com/jane-eyre/summaries/chap37-38", "summary": "Jane and Rochester have a quiet wedding three days after that. Diana and Mary are happy for her and say they will come to visit. St. John did not reply to the letter... |
Reader, I married him. A quiet wedding we had: he and I, the parson and
clerk, were alone present. When we got back from church, I went into the
kitchen of the manor-house, where Mary was cooking the dinner and John
cleaning the knives, and I said--
"Mary, I have been married to Mr. Rochester this morning." The
h... | 2,607 | volume 3, Chapter 38 | https://web.archive.org/web/20201020200836/https://www.novelguide.com/jane-eyre/summaries/chap37-38 | Jane and Rochester have a quiet wedding three days after that. Diana and Mary are happy for her and say they will come to visit. St. John did not reply to the letter Jane sent to him regarding the wedding; however, he has since maintained a correspondence with her. Jane goes to see Adele and changes her school for a be... | null | 193 | 1 |
507 | false | gradesaver | all_chapterized_books/507-chapters/01.txt | finished_summaries/gradesaver/Adam Bede/section_0_part_1.txt | Adam Bede.book 1.chapter 1 | book 1, chapter 1 | null | {"name": "book 1, Chapter 1", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180310100656/http://www.gradesaver.com/adam-bede/study-guide/summary-book-first-chapters-1-8", "summary": "On June 18, 1799, there are five workmen in the carpenter's shop of Mr. Jonathan Burge in the village of Hayslope. The tallest worker, Adam Bede,... |
With a single drop of ink for a mirror, the Egyptian sorcerer undertakes
to reveal to any chance comer far-reaching visions of the past. This is
what I undertake to do for you, reader. With this drop of ink at the
end of my pen, I will show you the roomy workshop of Mr. Jonathan Burge,
carpenter and builder, in the v... | 5,211 | book 1, Chapter 1 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180310100656/http://www.gradesaver.com/adam-bede/study-guide/summary-book-first-chapters-1-8 | On June 18, 1799, there are five workmen in the carpenter's shop of Mr. Jonathan Burge in the village of Hayslope. The tallest worker, Adam Bede, is singing. He is a fine, large man with Celtic blood. His brother, Seth, has a different aspect. He looks more shy and less robust. Seth says that he has finished the door t... | Chapter One mainly serves to introduce the namesake character of the book and to show off certain of his characteristics as he interacts with others. An interesting aspect of the author's description of the main character is her characterization of him as having "Celtic blood." While this might refer to Welsh or Scot... | 481 | 1,654 |
507 | false | gradesaver | all_chapterized_books/507-chapters/03.txt | finished_summaries/gradesaver/Adam Bede/section_0_part_3.txt | Adam Bede.book 1.chapter 3 | book 1, chapter 3 | null | {"name": "book 1, Chapter 3", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180310100656/http://www.gradesaver.com/adam-bede/study-guide/summary-book-first-chapters-1-8", "summary": "As Seth walks Dinah home, he wants to talk to her about their relationship, but he feels discouraged because she seems too holy to need a husband... |
IN less than an hour from that time, Seth Bede was walking by Dinah's
side along the hedgerow-path that skirted the pastures and green
corn-fields which lay between the village and the Hall Farm. Dinah had
taken off her little Quaker bonnet again, and was holding it in
her hands that she might have a freer enjoyment ... | 3,500 | book 1, Chapter 3 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180310100656/http://www.gradesaver.com/adam-bede/study-guide/summary-book-first-chapters-1-8 | As Seth walks Dinah home, he wants to talk to her about their relationship, but he feels discouraged because she seems too holy to need a husband. She tells him that she has made up her mind to go back to Snowfield on Monday, although she would prefer not to leave, especially since she is worried about Hetty Sorrel, in... | Chapter One mainly serves to introduce the namesake character of the book and to show off certain of his characteristics as he interacts with others. An interesting aspect of the author's description of the main character is her characterization of him as having "Celtic blood." While this might refer to Welsh or Scot... | 371 | 1,654 |
507 | false | gradesaver | all_chapterized_books/507-chapters/06.txt | finished_summaries/gradesaver/Adam Bede/section_0_part_6.txt | Adam Bede.book 1.chapter 6 | book 1, chapter 6 | null | {"name": "book 1, Chapter 6", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180310100656/http://www.gradesaver.com/adam-bede/study-guide/summary-book-first-chapters-1-8", "summary": "Neither the door nor the gate of the Hall farm has been opened in a great many years, and the inside contains rags and a big wooden doll with no ... |
EVIDENTLY that gate is never opened, for the long grass and the great
hemlocks grow close against it, and if it were opened, it is so rusty
that the force necessary to turn it on its hinges would be likely to
pull down the square stone-built pillars, to the detriment of the two
stone lionesses which grin with a doubt... | 7,807 | book 1, Chapter 6 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180310100656/http://www.gradesaver.com/adam-bede/study-guide/summary-book-first-chapters-1-8 | Neither the door nor the gate of the Hall farm has been opened in a great many years, and the inside contains rags and a big wooden doll with no nose. It used to be the home of a squire, but it is now reduced to a working farm. Mrs. Poyser keeps the kitchen spotless and the surfaces polished, and her niece, Hetty Sorre... | Chapter One mainly serves to introduce the namesake character of the book and to show off certain of his characteristics as he interacts with others. An interesting aspect of the author's description of the main character is her characterization of him as having "Celtic blood." While this might refer to Welsh or Scot... | 349 | 1,654 |
507 | false | gradesaver | all_chapterized_books/507-chapters/07.txt | finished_summaries/gradesaver/Adam Bede/section_0_part_7.txt | Adam Bede.book 1.chapter 7 | book 1, chapter 7 | null | {"name": "book 1, Chapter 7", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180310100656/http://www.gradesaver.com/adam-bede/study-guide/summary-book-first-chapters-1-8", "summary": "Hetty blushes when the Captain talks to her, and he is captivated by her kitten-like charm. The activity of butter-churning is perfectly suited t... |
THE dairy was certainly worth looking at: it was a scene to sicken for
with a sort of calenture in hot and dusty streets--such coolness, such
purity, such fresh fragrance of new-pressed cheese, of firm butter, of
wooden vessels perpetually bathed in pure water; such soft colouring of
red earthenware and creamy surfac... | 2,988 | book 1, Chapter 7 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180310100656/http://www.gradesaver.com/adam-bede/study-guide/summary-book-first-chapters-1-8 | Hetty blushes when the Captain talks to her, and he is captivated by her kitten-like charm. The activity of butter-churning is perfectly suited to showing off her well-shaped arms. He invites the women to a dance on the 30th of June and asks for two dances from Hetty. Mrs. Poyser thinks that it will be much easier to b... | Chapter One mainly serves to introduce the namesake character of the book and to show off certain of his characteristics as he interacts with others. An interesting aspect of the author's description of the main character is her characterization of him as having "Celtic blood." While this might refer to Welsh or Scot... | 270 | 1,654 |
507 | false | gradesaver | all_chapterized_books/507-chapters/08.txt | finished_summaries/gradesaver/Adam Bede/section_0_part_8.txt | Adam Bede.book 1.chapter 8 | book 1, chapter 8 | null | {"name": "book 1, Chapter 8", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180310100656/http://www.gradesaver.com/adam-bede/study-guide/summary-book-first-chapters-1-8", "summary": "The vicar converses with Dinah about her hometown of Snowfield, which has changed since a new mill was built there, which brought in more residen... |
DINAH, who had risen when the gentlemen came in, but still kept hold of
the sheet she was mending, curtsied respectfully when she saw Mr. Irwine
looking at her and advancing towards her. He had never yet spoken to
her, or stood face to face with her, and her first thought, as her eyes
met his, was, "What a well-favou... | 4,892 | book 1, Chapter 8 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180310100656/http://www.gradesaver.com/adam-bede/study-guide/summary-book-first-chapters-1-8 | The vicar converses with Dinah about her hometown of Snowfield, which has changed since a new mill was built there, which brought in more residents. Dinah says that she is a member of the Society , which does not prohibit women from preaching. The first time that she preached was in Hetton-Deeps, a mining town without ... | Chapter One mainly serves to introduce the namesake character of the book and to show off certain of his characteristics as he interacts with others. An interesting aspect of the author's description of the main character is her characterization of him as having "Celtic blood." While this might refer to Welsh or Scot... | 315 | 1,654 |
507 | false | gradesaver | all_chapterized_books/507-chapters/09.txt | finished_summaries/gradesaver/Adam Bede/section_1_part_1.txt | Adam Bede.book 1.chapter 9 | book 1, chapter 9 | null | {"name": "book 1, Chapter 9", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180310100656/http://www.gradesaver.com/adam-bede/study-guide/summary-book-first-chapters-9-16", "summary": "Hetty has been extremely flattered by the Captain's attentions. She knows that many men like to look at her including Adam Bede, whom she finds ... |
WHILE she adjusted the broad leaves that set off the pale fragrant
butter as the primrose is set off by its nest of green I am afraid Hetty
was thinking a great deal more of the looks Captain Donnithorne had cast
at her than of Adam and his troubles. Bright, admiring glances from
a handsome young gentleman with white... | 4,002 | book 1, Chapter 9 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180310100656/http://www.gradesaver.com/adam-bede/study-guide/summary-book-first-chapters-9-16 | Hetty has been extremely flattered by the Captain's attentions. She knows that many men like to look at her including Adam Bede, whom she finds quite manly, She also knows that her father would like her to marry Adam. Although Hetty did not like it when his attentions to her slipped, she is not in love with him-especia... | Although the narrator's opinions are not so evident in Chapter Nine, Eliot implicitly endorses some of the precepts of Methodism by showing Hetty's vanity in a negative light. All that she desires are material goods, and she prefers the Captain to Adam not because he is smarter or better-looking, but because he can pr... | 239 | 1,311 |
507 | false | gradesaver | all_chapterized_books/507-chapters/11.txt | finished_summaries/gradesaver/Adam Bede/section_1_part_3.txt | Adam Bede.book 1.chapter 11 | book 1, chapter 11 | null | {"name": "book 1, Chapter 11", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180310100656/http://www.gradesaver.com/adam-bede/study-guide/summary-book-first-chapters-9-16", "summary": "Dinah wakes up at half past four and goes downstairs quietly, joined by Gyp. Adam has also woken up and gone to the workshop to pick out the wo... |
IT was but half-past four the next morning when Dinah, tired of lying
awake listening to the birds and watching the growing light through the
little window in the garret roof, rose and began to dress herself very
quietly, lest she should disturb Lisbeth. But already some one else was
astir in the house, and had gone ... | 5,131 | book 1, Chapter 11 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180310100656/http://www.gradesaver.com/adam-bede/study-guide/summary-book-first-chapters-9-16 | Dinah wakes up at half past four and goes downstairs quietly, joined by Gyp. Adam has also woken up and gone to the workshop to pick out the wood for his father's coffin. Adam hears a light footstep on the stairs and imagines that it might be Hetty. Dinah greets him, Adam looks at her closely for the first time, and sh... | Although the narrator's opinions are not so evident in Chapter Nine, Eliot implicitly endorses some of the precepts of Methodism by showing Hetty's vanity in a negative light. All that she desires are material goods, and she prefers the Captain to Adam not because he is smarter or better-looking, but because he can pr... | 343 | 1,311 |
507 | false | gradesaver | all_chapterized_books/507-chapters/12.txt | finished_summaries/gradesaver/Adam Bede/section_1_part_4.txt | Adam Bede.book 1.chapter 12 | book 1, chapter 12 | null | {"name": "book 1, Chapter 12", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180310100656/http://www.gradesaver.com/adam-bede/study-guide/summary-book-first-chapters-9-16", "summary": "Captain Donnithorne resolves to go to Eagledale to fish for a week. His character is such that he gets into predicaments but always resolves to... |
THAT same Thursday morning, as Arthur Donnithorne was moving about in
his dressing-room seeing his well-looking British person reflected in
the old-fashioned mirrors, and stared at, from a dingy olive-green piece
of tapestry, by Pharaoh's daughter and her maidens, who ought to have
been minding the infant Moses, he w... | 6,371 | book 1, Chapter 12 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180310100656/http://www.gradesaver.com/adam-bede/study-guide/summary-book-first-chapters-9-16 | Captain Donnithorne resolves to go to Eagledale to fish for a week. His character is such that he gets into predicaments but always resolves to let the burden fall solely on his own shoulders. Eliot writes that he is a "nice" young gentleman, but that one should not question the actions of such men too deeply when, for... | Although the narrator's opinions are not so evident in Chapter Nine, Eliot implicitly endorses some of the precepts of Methodism by showing Hetty's vanity in a negative light. All that she desires are material goods, and she prefers the Captain to Adam not because he is smarter or better-looking, but because he can pr... | 460 | 1,311 |
507 | false | gradesaver | all_chapterized_books/507-chapters/13.txt | finished_summaries/gradesaver/Adam Bede/section_1_part_5.txt | Adam Bede.book 1.chapter 13 | book 1, chapter 13 | null | {"name": "book 1, Chapter 13", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180310100656/http://www.gradesaver.com/adam-bede/study-guide/summary-book-first-chapters-9-16", "summary": "Hetty wonders fearfully whether the Captain will meet her again on her way home. The housekeeper notices her beauty and worries for her, thinki... |
IT happened that Mrs. Pomfret had had a slight quarrel with Mrs.
Best, the housekeeper, on this Thursday morning--a fact which had two
consequences highly convenient to Hetty. It caused Mrs. Pomfret to have
tea sent up to her own room, and it inspired that exemplary lady's maid
with so lively a recollection of former... | 2,956 | book 1, Chapter 13 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180310100656/http://www.gradesaver.com/adam-bede/study-guide/summary-book-first-chapters-9-16 | Hetty wonders fearfully whether the Captain will meet her again on her way home. The housekeeper notices her beauty and worries for her, thinking that a sensible man would not take her on either as a servant or as a wife. Hetty walks home, delighting in the expectation of meeting the Captain not only because she finds ... | Although the narrator's opinions are not so evident in Chapter Nine, Eliot implicitly endorses some of the precepts of Methodism by showing Hetty's vanity in a negative light. All that she desires are material goods, and she prefers the Captain to Adam not because he is smarter or better-looking, but because he can pr... | 269 | 1,311 |
507 | false | gradesaver | all_chapterized_books/507-chapters/14.txt | finished_summaries/gradesaver/Adam Bede/section_1_part_6.txt | Adam Bede.book 1.chapter 14 | book 1, chapter 14 | null | {"name": "book 1, Chapter 14", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180310100656/http://www.gradesaver.com/adam-bede/study-guide/summary-book-first-chapters-9-16", "summary": "Lisbeth watches Seth leave with Dinah and then admits that she is sorry to see Dinah go. She wishes that Dinah would marry Seth, although she c... |
WHILE that parting in the wood was happening, there was a parting in the
cottage too, and Lisbeth had stood with Adam at the door, straining her
aged eyes to get the last glimpse of Seth and Dinah, as they mounted the
opposite slope.
"Eh, I'm loath to see the last on her," she said to Adam, as they turned
into the h... | 5,638 | book 1, Chapter 14 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180310100656/http://www.gradesaver.com/adam-bede/study-guide/summary-book-first-chapters-9-16 | Lisbeth watches Seth leave with Dinah and then admits that she is sorry to see Dinah go. She wishes that Dinah would marry Seth, although she can see that Dinah does not really care for Seth since she is moving so far away. Adam says that she will fall in love with Seth eventually, and Lisbeth notes that he always stic... | Although the narrator's opinions are not so evident in Chapter Nine, Eliot implicitly endorses some of the precepts of Methodism by showing Hetty's vanity in a negative light. All that she desires are material goods, and she prefers the Captain to Adam not because he is smarter or better-looking, but because he can pr... | 447 | 1,311 |
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ARTHUR DONNITHORNE, you remember, is under an engagement with himself to
go and see Mr. Irwine this Friday morning, and he is awake and dressing
so early that he determines to go before breakfast, instead of after.
The rector, he knows, breakfasts alone at half-past nine, the ladies of
the family having a different b... | 7,602 | book 1, Chapter 16 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180310100656/http://www.gradesaver.com/adam-bede/study-guide/summary-book-first-chapters-9-16 | The Captain sets out to see the vicar early in the morning, so that he can discuss the affair of Hetty with him over breakfast. He knows that the vicar takes his breakfast alone. He runs into Adam Bede along the way, and he makes Adam very happy by shaking his hand. Adam taught the Captain some carpentry when he was a ... | Although the narrator's opinions are not so evident in Chapter Nine, Eliot implicitly endorses some of the precepts of Methodism by showing Hetty's vanity in a negative light. All that she desires are material goods, and she prefers the Captain to Adam not because he is smarter or better-looking, but because he can pr... | 235 | 1,311 |
507 | false | gradesaver | all_chapterized_books/507-chapters/17.txt | finished_summaries/gradesaver/Adam Bede/section_2_part_1.txt | Adam Bede.book 2.chapter 17 | book 2, chapter 17 | null | {"name": "book 2, Chapter 17", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180310100656/http://www.gradesaver.com/adam-bede/study-guide/summary-book-second", "summary": "Eliot anticipates that her reader will be shocked by the dullness of the vicar, perhaps hoping that the vicar would be given a fine sermon to offer. She rem... |
"THIS Rector of Broxton is little better than a pagan!" I hear one of my
readers exclaim. "How much more edifying it would have been if you had
made him give Arthur some truly spiritual advice! You might have put
into his mouth the most beautiful things--quite as good as reading a
sermon."
Certainly I could, if I he... | 5,607 | book 2, Chapter 17 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180310100656/http://www.gradesaver.com/adam-bede/study-guide/summary-book-second | Eliot anticipates that her reader will be shocked by the dullness of the vicar, perhaps hoping that the vicar would be given a fine sermon to offer. She reminds the reader that her goal, however, is a faithful reprint of life as it actually is. Eliot does not want to represent people as more clearly good and evil than ... | Chapter Seventeen is crucial to the literary philosophy of the book. Eliot steps back to explain why she has chosen the subject matter that she has. This chapter could be referred to as meta-literary, because it does not advance the plot at all but instead airs the author's literary theories. The style of writing that... | 223 | 809 |
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"HETTY, Hetty, don't you know church begins at two, and it's gone half
after one a'ready? Have you got nothing better to think on this good
Sunday as poor old Thias Bede's to be put into the ground, and him
drownded i' th' dead o' the night, as it's enough to make one's back
run cold, but you must be 'dizening yourse... | 13,945 | book 2, Chapter 18 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180310100656/http://www.gradesaver.com/adam-bede/study-guide/summary-book-second | Mrs. Poyser criticizes Hetty for being late to Thias Bede's funeral, but she then sees how pretty she looks in her Sunday dress. The Poysers set off with Hetty, Totty, and their nine- and seven-year-old boys, Marty and Tommy. The grandfather stands by, and Mrs. Poyser remarks that the elderly are like babies, content w... | Chapter Seventeen is crucial to the literary philosophy of the book. Eliot steps back to explain why she has chosen the subject matter that she has. This chapter could be referred to as meta-literary, because it does not advance the plot at all but instead airs the author's literary theories. The style of writing that... | 366 | 809 |
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ADAM came back from his work in the empty waggon--that was why he had
changed his clothes--and was ready to set out to the Hall Farm when it
still wanted a quarter to seven.
"What's thee got thy Sunday cloose on for?" said Lisbeth complainingly,
as he came downstairs. "Thee artna goin' to th' school i' thy best
coat... | 11,462 | book 2, Chapter 20 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180310100656/http://www.gradesaver.com/adam-bede/study-guide/summary-book-second | Adam wears his Sunday clothes the Monday after, and Lisbeth is upset because she guesses correctly that he is dressed up to visit Hetty. When he reaches the Poysers' farm, Mrs. Poyser asks him to go out where Hetty is picking currants with Totty and to fetch Totty in, because she is probably eating too many currants. A... | Chapter Seventeen is crucial to the literary philosophy of the book. Eliot steps back to explain why she has chosen the subject matter that she has. This chapter could be referred to as meta-literary, because it does not advance the plot at all but instead airs the author's literary theories. The style of writing that... | 468 | 809 |
507 | false | gradesaver | all_chapterized_books/507-chapters/21.txt | finished_summaries/gradesaver/Adam Bede/section_2_part_5.txt | Adam Bede.book 2.chapter 21 | book 2, chapter 21 | null | {"name": "book 2, Chapter 21", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180310100656/http://www.gradesaver.com/adam-bede/study-guide/summary-book-second", "summary": "Adam reaches Bartle Massey's house thirty minutes later, just in time to catch the end of night school. The schoolmaster was helping Bill learn to read. The... |
Bartle Massey's was one of a few scattered houses on the edge of a
common, which was divided by the road to Treddleston. Adam reached it
in a quarter of an hour after leaving the Hall Farm; and when he had his
hand on the door-latch, he could see, through the curtainless window,
that there were eight or nine heads be... | 9,612 | book 2, Chapter 21 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180310100656/http://www.gradesaver.com/adam-bede/study-guide/summary-book-second | Adam reaches Bartle Massey's house thirty minutes later, just in time to catch the end of night school. The schoolmaster was helping Bill learn to read. The man has a double motivation to get up to speed--his cousin can read, as can a young boy who works in his stonecutter's shop. Another beginner is a bricklayer, prev... | Chapter Seventeen is crucial to the literary philosophy of the book. Eliot steps back to explain why she has chosen the subject matter that she has. This chapter could be referred to as meta-literary, because it does not advance the plot at all but instead airs the author's literary theories. The style of writing that... | 443 | 809 |
507 | false | gradesaver | all_chapterized_books/507-chapters/22.txt | finished_summaries/gradesaver/Adam Bede/section_3_part_1.txt | Adam Bede.book 3.chapter 22 | book 3, chapter 22 | null | {"name": "book 3, Chapter 22", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180310100656/http://www.gradesaver.com/adam-bede/study-guide/summary-book-third", "summary": "The Captain's birthday is at the end of July. Hetty prepares herself in her room, looking at a lovely pair of garnet and pearl earrings that the Captain has ... |
THE thirtieth of July was come, and it was one of those half-dozen warm
days which sometimes occur in the middle of a rainy English summer. No
rain had fallen for the last three or four days, and the weather was
perfect for that time of the year: there was less dust than usual on
the dark-green hedge-rows and on the ... | 6,354 | book 3, Chapter 22 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180310100656/http://www.gradesaver.com/adam-bede/study-guide/summary-book-third | The Captain's birthday is at the end of July. Hetty prepares herself in her room, looking at a lovely pair of garnet and pearl earrings that the Captain has given her, which she knows she cannot wear yet. She wears a locket with locks of hair in it hidden in her bosom. Everyone walks towards the Chase, where the great ... | In Chapter Twenty-Two, the Captain's behavior towards his tenants is interestingly old-fashioned. He seems to take an almost feudal responsibility for them, a fact enhanced by the setting of the tenants' dinner in a room in the old Abbey. The Captain in no way questions the established social order of his society, bu... | 252 | 894 |
507 | false | gradesaver | all_chapterized_books/507-chapters/23.txt | finished_summaries/gradesaver/Adam Bede/section_3_part_2.txt | Adam Bede.book 3.chapter 23 | book 3, chapter 23 | null | {"name": "book 3, Chapter 23", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180310100656/http://www.gradesaver.com/adam-bede/study-guide/summary-book-third", "summary": "Adam is called to dine with the large tenants and feels uncomfortable leaving his family downstairs, but Seth encourages him to go. He walks up with Bartle. ... |
WHEN Adam heard that he was to dine upstairs with the large tenants, he
felt rather uncomfortable at the idea of being exalted in this way above
his mother and Seth, who were to dine in the cloisters below. But
Mr. Mills, the butler, assured him that Captain Donnithorne had given
particular orders about it, and would ... | 2,983 | book 3, Chapter 23 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180310100656/http://www.gradesaver.com/adam-bede/study-guide/summary-book-third | Adam is called to dine with the large tenants and feels uncomfortable leaving his family downstairs, but Seth encourages him to go. He walks up with Bartle. There was a small argument about who was to sit at the top of the table, because the butler felt strongly that the elder Mr. Poyser should. Bartle settles the matt... | In Chapter Twenty-Two, the Captain's behavior towards his tenants is interestingly old-fashioned. He seems to take an almost feudal responsibility for them, a fact enhanced by the setting of the tenants' dinner in a room in the old Abbey. The Captain in no way questions the established social order of his society, bu... | 341 | 894 |
507 | false | gradesaver | all_chapterized_books/507-chapters/24.txt | finished_summaries/gradesaver/Adam Bede/section_3_part_3.txt | Adam Bede.book 3.chapter 24 | book 3, chapter 24 | null | {"name": "book 3, Chapter 24", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180310100656/http://www.gradesaver.com/adam-bede/study-guide/summary-book-third", "summary": "Everyone stands when Arthur enters, and he enjoys the sign of respect. Mr. Poyser makes a short speech thanking Arthur and calls for a toast to his health. T... |
WHEN the dinner was over, and the first draughts from the great cask of
birthday ale were brought up, room was made for the broad Mr. Poyser at
the side of the table, and two chairs were placed at the head. It had
been settled very definitely what Mr. Poyser was to do when the young
squire should appear, and for the ... | 4,480 | book 3, Chapter 24 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180310100656/http://www.gradesaver.com/adam-bede/study-guide/summary-book-third | Everyone stands when Arthur enters, and he enjoys the sign of respect. Mr. Poyser makes a short speech thanking Arthur and calls for a toast to his health. The Captain feels only a small twinge of conscience for having feelings for Mr. Poyser's daughter and for acting on them. The Captain thanks his tenants for teachin... | In Chapter Twenty-Two, the Captain's behavior towards his tenants is interestingly old-fashioned. He seems to take an almost feudal responsibility for them, a fact enhanced by the setting of the tenants' dinner in a room in the old Abbey. The Captain in no way questions the established social order of his society, bu... | 399 | 894 |
507 | false | gradesaver | all_chapterized_books/507-chapters/25.txt | finished_summaries/gradesaver/Adam Bede/section_3_part_4.txt | Adam Bede.book 3.chapter 25 | book 3, chapter 25 | null | {"name": "book 3, Chapter 25", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180310100656/http://www.gradesaver.com/adam-bede/study-guide/summary-book-third", "summary": "The official dancing does not begin until eight, but there is plenty of music around for the eager. There are contests including races and greased-pole-climb... |
THE great dance was not to begin until eight o'clock, but for any lads
and lasses who liked to dance on the shady grass before then, there was
music always at hand--for was not the band of the Benefit Club capable
of playing excellent jigs, reels, and hornpipes? And, besides this,
there was a grand band hired from Ro... | 4,759 | book 3, Chapter 25 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180310100656/http://www.gradesaver.com/adam-bede/study-guide/summary-book-third | The official dancing does not begin until eight, but there is plenty of music around for the eager. There are contests including races and greased-pole-climbing, the prizes for which are handed out by the vicar's mother, who presides from under a marquee. The Captain talks to his godmother, who encourages him to get ma... | In Chapter Twenty-Two, the Captain's behavior towards his tenants is interestingly old-fashioned. He seems to take an almost feudal responsibility for them, a fact enhanced by the setting of the tenants' dinner in a room in the old Abbey. The Captain in no way questions the established social order of his society, bu... | 458 | 894 |
507 | false | gradesaver | all_chapterized_books/507-chapters/26.txt | finished_summaries/gradesaver/Adam Bede/section_3_part_5.txt | Adam Bede.book 3.chapter 26 | book 3, chapter 26 | null | {"name": "book 3, Chapter 26", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180310100656/http://www.gradesaver.com/adam-bede/study-guide/summary-book-third", "summary": "The ball is held in the grand entrance room to the Chase. Lisbeth Bede objects to Adam being invited to the dancing because it causes him to leave his family... |
ARTHUR had chosen the entrance-hall for the ballroom: very wisely, for
no other room could have been so airy, or would have had the advantage
of the wide doors opening into the garden, as well as a ready entrance
into the other rooms. To be sure, a stone floor was not the pleasantest
to dance on, but then, most of th... | 6,661 | book 3, Chapter 26 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180310100656/http://www.gradesaver.com/adam-bede/study-guide/summary-book-third | The ball is held in the grand entrance room to the Chase. Lisbeth Bede objects to Adam being invited to the dancing because it causes him to leave his family, but when Adam says that he could apologize to the Captain and explain that his mother did not want him to attend, she says that he should go after all. Seth is h... | In Chapter Twenty-Two, the Captain's behavior towards his tenants is interestingly old-fashioned. He seems to take an almost feudal responsibility for them, a fact enhanced by the setting of the tenants' dinner in a room in the old Abbey. The Captain in no way questions the established social order of his society, bu... | 452 | 894 |
507 | false | gradesaver | all_chapterized_books/507-chapters/27.txt | finished_summaries/gradesaver/Adam Bede/section_4_part_1.txt | Adam Bede.book 4.chapter 27 | book 4, chapter 27 | null | {"name": "book 4, Chapter 27", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180310100656/http://www.gradesaver.com/adam-bede/study-guide/summary-book-fourth", "summary": "In the middle of August, Adam performs twice as much work as before. He has begun his work on the Captain's estate, but he also has remained with Mr. Burge ... |
IT was beyond the middle of August--nearly three weeks after the
birthday feast. The reaping of the wheat had begun in our north midland
county of Loamshire, but the harvest was likely still to be retarded
by the heavy rains, which were causing inundations and much damage
throughout the country. From this last troubl... | 6,450 | book 4, Chapter 27 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180310100656/http://www.gradesaver.com/adam-bede/study-guide/summary-book-fourth | In the middle of August, Adam performs twice as much work as before. He has begun his work on the Captain's estate, but he also has remained with Mr. Burge until Mr. Burge can find a replacement. His hopes about Hetty are high, because she has behaved more nicely than usual to him after the ball. One evening she goes t... | The first chapter of Book Fourth is crucial. Matters come to a head in Chapter Twenty-Seven when Adam finds out Arthur's and Hetty's secret. Moreover, despite the fact that they are isolated in the woods, class differences come to bear on the friendship between Arthur and Adam once again. When Arthur at first refuses... | 464 | 1,378 |
507 | false | gradesaver | all_chapterized_books/507-chapters/28.txt | finished_summaries/gradesaver/Adam Bede/section_4_part_2.txt | Adam Bede.book 4.chapter 28 | book 4, chapter 28 | null | {"name": "book 4, Chapter 28", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180310100656/http://www.gradesaver.com/adam-bede/study-guide/summary-book-fourth", "summary": "After a few minutes, Arthur sits up and says that he fainted. Adam tends to him, putting water on his forehead. They walk to the Hermitage to get Arthur som... |
IT was only a few minutes measured by the clock--though Adam always
thought it had been a long while--before he perceived a gleam of
consciousness in Arthur's face and a slight shiver through his frame.
The intense joy that flooded his soul brought back some of the old
affection with it.
"Do you feel any pain, sir?"... | 4,436 | book 4, Chapter 28 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180310100656/http://www.gradesaver.com/adam-bede/study-guide/summary-book-fourth | After a few minutes, Arthur sits up and says that he fainted. Adam tends to him, putting water on his forehead. They walk to the Hermitage to get Arthur some brandy so that he can stand the walk home. It is a surprise to Adam that the Hermitage has become so well equipped as a hideaway for Arthur. Arthur revives himsel... | The first chapter of Book Fourth is crucial. Matters come to a head in Chapter Twenty-Seven when Adam finds out Arthur's and Hetty's secret. Moreover, despite the fact that they are isolated in the woods, class differences come to bear on the friendship between Arthur and Adam once again. When Arthur at first refuses... | 222 | 1,378 |
507 | false | gradesaver | all_chapterized_books/507-chapters/29.txt | finished_summaries/gradesaver/Adam Bede/section_4_part_3.txt | Adam Bede.book 4.chapter 29 | book 4, chapter 29 | null | {"name": "book 4, Chapter 29", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180310100656/http://www.gradesaver.com/adam-bede/study-guide/summary-book-fourth", "summary": "Arthur wakes up in the morning and decides to go for a ride on his horse. He hates to witness pain. Once he gave a gardener his favorite pencil case because... |
ARTHUR did not pass a sleepless night; he slept long and well. For sleep
comes to the perplexed--if the perplexed are only weary enough. But at
seven he rang his bell and astonished Pym by declaring he was going to
get up, and must have breakfast brought to him at eight.
"And see that my mare is saddled at half-past... | 4,193 | book 4, Chapter 29 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180310100656/http://www.gradesaver.com/adam-bede/study-guide/summary-book-fourth | Arthur wakes up in the morning and decides to go for a ride on his horse. He hates to witness pain. Once he gave a gardener his favorite pencil case because he kicked over the man's supper of broth. If Arthur could gain back Adam's self-confidence with gifts, then he would try to do so, but he knows that he cannot. He ... | The first chapter of Book Fourth is crucial. Matters come to a head in Chapter Twenty-Seven when Adam finds out Arthur's and Hetty's secret. Moreover, despite the fact that they are isolated in the woods, class differences come to bear on the friendship between Arthur and Adam once again. When Arthur at first refuses... | 270 | 1,378 |
507 | false | gradesaver | all_chapterized_books/507-chapters/31.txt | finished_summaries/gradesaver/Adam Bede/section_4_part_5.txt | Adam Bede.book 4.chapter 31 | book 4, chapter 31 | null | {"name": "book 4, Chapter 31", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180310100656/http://www.gradesaver.com/adam-bede/study-guide/summary-book-fourth", "summary": "Hetty reads the letter from Arthur in her bedchamber. It is not easy for her to read the fancy handwriting, although Arthur has tried to write plainly. He s... |
IT was no longer light enough to go to bed without a candle, even in
Mrs. Poyser's early household, and Hetty carried one with her as she
went up at last to her bedroom soon after Adam was gone, and bolted the
door behind her.
Now she would read her letter. It must--it must have comfort in it. How
was Adam to know t... | 5,623 | book 4, Chapter 31 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180310100656/http://www.gradesaver.com/adam-bede/study-guide/summary-book-fourth | Hetty reads the letter from Arthur in her bedchamber. It is not easy for her to read the fancy handwriting, although Arthur has tried to write plainly. He says that he loves her and will always remember their love, but it would have been better had they not had it in the first place. He says that even if he married her... | The first chapter of Book Fourth is crucial. Matters come to a head in Chapter Twenty-Seven when Adam finds out Arthur's and Hetty's secret. Moreover, despite the fact that they are isolated in the woods, class differences come to bear on the friendship between Arthur and Adam once again. When Arthur at first refuses... | 406 | 1,378 |
507 | false | gradesaver | all_chapterized_books/507-chapters/32.txt | finished_summaries/gradesaver/Adam Bede/section_4_part_6.txt | Adam Bede.book 4.chapter 32 | book 4, chapter 32 | null | {"name": "book 4, Chapter 32", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180310100656/http://www.gradesaver.com/adam-bede/study-guide/summary-book-fourth", "summary": "Mr. Casson sees the stranger in top-boots ride by again. He says good morning to ascertain the man's accent, and he says that it is foreign and cannot compa... |
THE next Saturday evening there was much excited discussion at the
Donnithorne Arms concerning an incident which had occurred that very
day--no less than a second appearance of the smart man in top-boots said
by some to be a mere farmer in treaty for the Chase Farm, by others to
be the future steward, but by Mr. Cass... | 6,021 | book 4, Chapter 32 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180310100656/http://www.gradesaver.com/adam-bede/study-guide/summary-book-fourth | Mr. Casson sees the stranger in top-boots ride by again. He says good morning to ascertain the man's accent, and he says that it is foreign and cannot compare to his own refined accent. Bartle makes fun of him, saying that despite the fact that he has worked with gentlefolks, his accent is still terrible. The old Squir... | The first chapter of Book Fourth is crucial. Matters come to a head in Chapter Twenty-Seven when Adam finds out Arthur's and Hetty's secret. Moreover, despite the fact that they are isolated in the woods, class differences come to bear on the friendship between Arthur and Adam once again. When Arthur at first refuses... | 495 | 1,378 |
507 | false | gradesaver | all_chapterized_books/507-chapters/33.txt | finished_summaries/gradesaver/Adam Bede/section_4_part_7.txt | Adam Bede.book 4.chapter 33 | book 4, chapter 33 | null | {"name": "book 4, Chapter 33", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180310100656/http://www.gradesaver.com/adam-bede/study-guide/summary-book-fourth", "summary": "The barley crop is in, and it is already Michaelmas. Mr. Thurle did not come to the Chase, so the old Squire was obliged to find a steward. The whole town k... |
THE barley was all carried at last, and the harvest suppers went by
without waiting for the dismal black crop of beans. The apples and
nuts were gathered and stored; the scent of whey departed from the
farm-houses, and the scent of brewing came in its stead. The woods
behind the Chase, and all the hedgerow trees, too... | 3,750 | book 4, Chapter 33 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180310100656/http://www.gradesaver.com/adam-bede/study-guide/summary-book-fourth | The barley crop is in, and it is already Michaelmas. Mr. Thurle did not come to the Chase, so the old Squire was obliged to find a steward. The whole town knows that this is because Mrs. Poyser refused to be put upon. Mrs. Irwine approves highly, and she wishes that she were rich enough to give the lady a pension. Hett... | The first chapter of Book Fourth is crucial. Matters come to a head in Chapter Twenty-Seven when Adam finds out Arthur's and Hetty's secret. Moreover, despite the fact that they are isolated in the woods, class differences come to bear on the friendship between Arthur and Adam once again. When Arthur at first refuses... | 314 | 1,378 |
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IT was a dry Sunday, and really a pleasant day for the 2d of November.
There was no sunshine, but the clouds were high, and the wind was so
still that the yellow leaves which fluttered down from the hedgerow elms
must have fallen from pure decay. Nevertheless, Mrs. Poyser did not go
to church, for she had taken a col... | 2,690 | book 4, Chapter 34 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180310100656/http://www.gradesaver.com/adam-bede/study-guide/summary-book-fourth | On the second of November, Mrs. Poyser does not go to church because she has a serious cold. Mr. Poyser decides to keep her company. Adam walks Hetty home from church and tells her that he has been made partners with Mr. Burge. Hetty thinks that this goes together with him marrying Mary Burge, and that Adam is doing so... | The first chapter of Book Fourth is crucial. Matters come to a head in Chapter Twenty-Seven when Adam finds out Arthur's and Hetty's secret. Moreover, despite the fact that they are isolated in the woods, class differences come to bear on the friendship between Arthur and Adam once again. When Arthur at first refuses... | 259 | 1,378 |
507 | false | gradesaver | all_chapterized_books/507-chapters/35.txt | finished_summaries/gradesaver/Adam Bede/section_4_part_9.txt | Adam Bede.book 4.chapter 35 | book 4, chapter 35 | null | {"name": "book 4, Chapter 35", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180310100656/http://www.gradesaver.com/adam-bede/study-guide/summary-book-fourth", "summary": "It is a busy time for Adam, but one that he enjoys, because it takes him closer to March, when he will at last be married to Hetty. It was decided that Adam... |
IT was a busy time for Adam--the time between the beginning of November
and the beginning of February, and he could see little of Hetty, except
on Sundays. But a happy time, nevertheless, for it was taking him nearer
and nearer to March, when they were to be married, and all the little
preparations for their new hous... | 3,308 | book 4, Chapter 35 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180310100656/http://www.gradesaver.com/adam-bede/study-guide/summary-book-fourth | It is a busy time for Adam, but one that he enjoys, because it takes him closer to March, when he will at last be married to Hetty. It was decided that Adam and Hetty should live with Lisbeth and Seth, as Hetty had agreed. Also, Seth comes back from visiting Dinah and says that her mind is not turned toward marrying at... | The first chapter of Book Fourth is crucial. Matters come to a head in Chapter Twenty-Seven when Adam finds out Arthur's and Hetty's secret. Moreover, despite the fact that they are isolated in the woods, class differences come to bear on the friendship between Arthur and Adam once again. When Arthur at first refuses... | 297 | 1,378 |
507 | false | gradesaver | all_chapterized_books/507-chapters/36.txt | finished_summaries/gradesaver/Adam Bede/section_5_part_1.txt | Adam Bede.book 5.chapter 36 | book 5, chapter 36 | null | {"name": "book 5, Chapter 36", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180310100656/http://www.gradesaver.com/adam-bede/study-guide/summary-book-fifth", "summary": "Hetty is terrified at the beginning of her journey, because the coachman jokes with her about the beau whom she is traveling to find, and she assumes that he... |
A LONG, lonely journey, with sadness in the heart; away from the
familiar to the strange: that is a hard and dreary thing even to the
rich, the strong, the instructed; a hard thing, even when we are called
by duty, not urged by dread.
What was it then to Hetty? With her poor narrow thoughts, no longer
melting into v... | 5,136 | book 5, Chapter 36 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180310100656/http://www.gradesaver.com/adam-bede/study-guide/summary-book-fifth | Hetty is terrified at the beginning of her journey, because the coachman jokes with her about the beau whom she is traveling to find, and she assumes that he actually knows about her affairs. She is alarmed further when she finds out how much the trip will actually cost. She tells everyone that she is looking for her b... | Anyone reading the novel at the time that it was published would have understood the delicate position of Hetty in traveling alone. As uncommon as it was for unmarried women to travel long distances alone at that time, it was even more scandalous at the time period in which Eliot sets the novel. Young women who trave... | 282 | 1,804 |
507 | false | gradesaver | all_chapterized_books/507-chapters/37.txt | finished_summaries/gradesaver/Adam Bede/section_5_part_2.txt | Adam Bede.book 5.chapter 37 | book 5, chapter 37 | null | {"name": "book 5, Chapter 37", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180310100656/http://www.gradesaver.com/adam-bede/study-guide/summary-book-fifth", "summary": "Hetty is too ill for the rest of the day to realize just how bad her predicament is. The next morning she realizes that she is friendless and that all of her... |
HETTY was too ill through the rest of that day for any questions to be
addressed to her--too ill even to think with any distinctness of the
evils that were to come. She only felt that all her hope was crushed,
and that instead of having found a refuge she had only reached the
borders of a new wilderness where no goal... | 7,094 | book 5, Chapter 37 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180310100656/http://www.gradesaver.com/adam-bede/study-guide/summary-book-fifth | Hetty is too ill for the rest of the day to realize just how bad her predicament is. The next morning she realizes that she is friendless and that all of her money is gone. She yearns to be back at home, where everything is familiar. She decides to try to sell the jewelry that Arthur has given her. But now that all of ... | Anyone reading the novel at the time that it was published would have understood the delicate position of Hetty in traveling alone. As uncommon as it was for unmarried women to travel long distances alone at that time, it was even more scandalous at the time period in which Eliot sets the novel. Young women who trave... | 321 | 1,804 |
507 | false | gradesaver | all_chapterized_books/507-chapters/38.txt | finished_summaries/gradesaver/Adam Bede/section_5_part_3.txt | Adam Bede.book 5.chapter 38 | book 5, chapter 38 | null | {"name": "book 5, Chapter 38", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180310100656/http://www.gradesaver.com/adam-bede/study-guide/summary-book-fifth", "summary": "The ten days after Hetty leaves pass quietly at the farm, but after two weeks, everyone starts to worry. Adam decides to set out on Sunday to find her and to... |
THE first ten days after Hetty's departure passed as quietly as any
other days with the family at the Hall Farm, and with Adam at his daily
work. They had expected Hetty to stay away a week or ten days at least,
perhaps a little longer if Dinah came back with her, because there might
then be something to detain them ... | 8,160 | book 5, Chapter 38 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180310100656/http://www.gradesaver.com/adam-bede/study-guide/summary-book-fifth | The ten days after Hetty leaves pass quietly at the farm, but after two weeks, everyone starts to worry. Adam decides to set out on Sunday to find her and to bring her home on Monday. Seth walks with Adam for the first two miles, saying that he will probably be a bachelor and fuss over Adam's children. Adam is so happy... | Anyone reading the novel at the time that it was published would have understood the delicate position of Hetty in traveling alone. As uncommon as it was for unmarried women to travel long distances alone at that time, it was even more scandalous at the time period in which Eliot sets the novel. Young women who trave... | 502 | 1,804 |
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