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简爱 Jane Eyre
作者：夏洛蒂·勃朗特 (Charlotte Bronte) [英国]
简爱父母早亡寄居在舅舅家，舅舅病逝后，舅母把她送进孤儿院，来到桑恩费尔德，当男主人公罗彻司特先生家的家庭教师，罗彻先生脾气古怪，经过几次接触，简爱爱上了他。在他们举行婚礼时，梅森闯进来指出古堡顶楼小屋里的疯女人是罗彻司特先生的妻子，简爱不愿作为情妇，离开了桑恩费尔德。来到一个偏远的地方在牧师的帮助下找到了一个乡村教师的职业。在牧师向简爱提出结婚时，她想起了罗彻司特先生。当赶回桑恩费尔德时古堡已成废墟。简爱赶往罗彻司特先生住的芬丁，扑到了罗彻司特先生的怀里……
第一章
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 outdoor exercise was now out of the question. I was glad of it: I never liked long walks, especially on chilly afternoons: dreadful to me was the coming home in the raw twilight, with nipped fingers and toes, and a heart saddened by the scoldings of Bessie, the nurse, and humbled by the consciousness of my physical inferiority to Eliza, John, and Georgiana Reed. The said Eliza, John, and Georgiana were now clustered round their mama in the drawing-room: she lay reclined on a sofa by the fireside, and with her darlings about her (for the time neither quarrelling nor crying) looked perfectly happy. Me, she had dispensed from joining the group; saying, "She regretted to be under the necessity of keeping me at a distance; but that until she heard from Bessie, and could discover by her own observation, that I was endeavouring in good earnest to acquire a more sociable and childlike disposition, a more attractive and sprightly manner -- something lighter, franker, more natural, as it were -- she really must exclude me from privileges intended only for contented, happy, little children."