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Phoebe Reads a Mystery

Jane Eyre: Chapter 17, pt. 1

Phoebe Reads a Mystery

Vox Media Podcast Network

Drama, Fiction

4.86K Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2020

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Phoebe reads a chapter a day of Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre. Read along. Our other shows are Criminal and This is Love. Donate to Phoebe Reads a Mystery. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Nothing's more British than a copper and a biscuit.

0:04.6

Taking a 15 minute break to reset, recharge and feel better.

0:09.6

But the perfect break needs the perfect biscuit.

0:13.7

And let's be honest, as the original and the best

0:17.5

only a MacVitties one will do.

0:20.6

Time for a biscuit, Britain.

0:23.4

MacVitties' true originals,

0:25.6

by in store for a chance to win a truly original biscuit break.

0:31.0

Chapter 17 Part 1

0:35.1

A week passed, and no news arrived of Mr. Rochester,

0:39.0

ten days, and still he did not come.

0:42.2

Mrs. Fairfax said she would not be surprised if he were to go straight from the leaves to London,

0:47.9

and thence to the continent, and not chose face again at Thornfield for a year to come.

0:53.6

He had not, unfrequently, quitted it in a manner quite as abrupt and unexpected.

0:59.8

When I heard this, I was beating to feel a strange chill and failing at the heart.

1:05.6

I was actually permitting myself to experience a sickening sense of disappointment.

1:12.3

But rallying my wits and recollecting my principles,

1:16.4

I at once called my sensations to order, and it was wonderful how I got over the temporary

1:22.6

wonder, how I cleared up the mistake of supposing Mr. Rochester's movements,

1:27.1

a matter in which I had any cause to take a vital interest.

1:31.7

Not that I humbled myself by a slavish notion of inferiority.

1:36.9

On the contrary, I just said,

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