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Phoebe Reads a Mystery

Jane Eyre: Chapter 31

Phoebe Reads a Mystery

Vox Media Podcast Network

Drama, Fiction

4.86K Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2020

⏱️ 21 minutes

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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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Chapter 31

0:55.5

My home, then, when I last find a home, is a cottage. A little room with white washed walls and a

1:02.8

sanded floor, containing four painted chairs and a table, a clock, a cupboard with two or three

1:09.8

plates and dishes, and a set of teeth-ings. Above, a chamber of the same dimensions as the kitchen,

1:16.9

with a deal bed-stead and chest of drawers. Small, yet too large to be filled with my scanty

1:23.3

wardrobe. Though the kindness of my gentle and generous friends has increased that by a modest

1:29.9

stock of such things as are necessary. It is evening. I have dismissed with the fee of an orange

1:37.6

the little orphan who serves me as a handmaid. I am sitting alone on the hearth. This morning

1:43.7

the village school opened. I had twenty scholars. But three of the number can read, none,

1:50.4

right, or cipher. Several knit and a few so a little. They speak with the broadest accent of

1:57.0

the district. At present, they and I have a difficulty in understanding each other's language.

2:03.1

Some of them are unmanored, rough, intractable, as well as ignorant. But others or dacile have a

2:10.6

wish to learn, and events a disposition that pleases me. I must not forget that these

2:17.2

coarsely clad little peasants are of flesh and blood as good as the sions of gentlest genealogy,

2:24.5

and that the germs of native excellence, refinement, intelligence, kind feeling are as likely to

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