"This is the little girl"

H. S. Grieg

Source: Works I, facing p. 34.

Mrs Reed introduces Jane to Mr Brocklehurst, who questions her on her Bible reading and agrees to admit her to Lowood. Jane describes the scene as follows: "He, for it was a man, turned his head slowly towards where I stood, and having examined me with the two inquisitive-looking grey eyes which twinkled under a pair of bushy brows, said solemnly, and in a bass voice, "Her size is small: what is her age?" (see Chapter IV in the Victorian Web text of Jane Eyre).

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