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Tonight, we'll read the third part to the classic 1847 novel Jane Eyre by English writer Charlotte Bronte.

It is a story of a young orphaned girl who lives with her aunt and cousins and is mistreated by them.

The novel is considered one of the greatest works of English fiction.

If you'd like to find episode one, it aired on September 9th 2019.

Episode 2 aired January 29th 2020.

In part 2, poor little Jane is being held captive, what we might call now a

time out in a seemingly haunted guest room of the mansion she lives in. Jane passes out in fright,

and when she comes to, she is out of sorts and feeling unwell.

The servant, with a softer heart named Bessie is trying to nurse her back to health. Let's get cozy. Close your eyes. Relax your body into the softness of your bed.

Now, take a few deep breaths.

Next day by noon I was up and dressed and sat wrapped in a shawl by the nursery hearth.

I felt physically weak and broken down, but my worse ailment was an unutterable wretchedness of mind.

A wretchedness which kept drawing from me silent tears. No sooner had I wiped one salt drop from my cheek than another followed.

Yet, I thought, I ought to have been happy, for none of the reeds were there. They were all gone out in the carriage with

their mama. Abbott too was sewing in another room and Bessie as she moved hither and thither putting away toys and

arranging drawers addressed to me every now and then a word of unwanted kindness. This state of things should have been to me a

piece of paradise. Accustomed as I was to a life of ceaseless reprimand and thankless fagging, but in fact my racked

nerves were now in such a state that no calm could soothe and no pleasure excite them agreeably.

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