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an illness
- 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.Chapter 3 (23% in)
ailment = illness
There are no more uses of "ailment" in Jane Eyre.
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