Both Uses of
pauper
in
Jane Eyre
- I would as soon have been charged with a pauper brat out of a workhouse: but he was weak, naturally weak.
p. 267.7pauper = very poor
- And far better that crows and ravens — if any ravens there be in these regions — should pick my flesh from my bones, than that they should be prisoned in a workhouse coffin and moulder in a pauper's grave.
p. 380.1 *pauper = someone who is very poor