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a person in charge of a group of monks
- Aid was near him: Eliza and Georgiana had run for Mrs. Reed, who was gone upstairs: she now came upon the scene, followed by Bessie and her maid Abbot.Chapter 1 (97% in)
- I resisted all the way: a new thing for me, and a circumstance which greatly strengthened the bad opinion Bessie and Miss Abbot were disposed to entertain of me.Chapter 2 (1% in)
- "Hold her arms, Miss Abbot: she's like a mad cat."Chapter 2 (3% in)
- Miss Abbot, lend me your garters; she would break mine directly.Chapter 2 (7% in)
- Miss Abbot turned to divest a stout leg of the necessary ligature.Chapter 2 (8% in)
- "Mind you don't," said Bessie; and when she had ascertained that I was really subsiding, she loosened her hold of me; then she and Miss Abbot stood with folded arms, looking darkly and doubtfully on my face, as incredulous of my sanity.Chapter 2 (10% in)
- Miss Abbot joined in — "And you ought not to think yourself on an equality with the Misses Reed and Master Reed, because Missis kindly allows you to be brought up with them.Chapter 2 (16% in)
- "Besides," said Miss Abbot, "God will punish her: He might strike her dead in the midst of her tantrums, and then where would she go?Chapter 2 (20% in)
- My seat, to which Bessie and the bitter Miss Abbot had left me riveted, was a low ottoman near the marble chimney-piece; the bed rose before me; to my right hand there was the high, dark wardrobe, with subdued, broken reflections varying the gloss of its panels; to my left were the muffled windows; a great looking-glass between them repeated the vacant majesty of the bed and room.Chapter 2 (35% in)
- Steps came running along the outer passage; the key turned, Bessie and Abbot entered.Chapter 2 (87% in)
- "What a dreadful noise! it went quite through me!" exclaimed Abbot.Chapter 2 (88% in)
- "She has screamed out on purpose," declared Abbot, in some disgust.Chapter 2 (90% in)
- Abbot and Bessie, I believe I gave orders that Jane Eyre should be left in the red-room till I came to her myself.Chapter 2 (92% in)
- Bessie and Abbot having retreated, Mrs. Reed, impatient of my now frantic anguish and wild sobs, abruptly thrust me back and locked me in, without farther parley.Chapter 2 (98% in)
- Turning from Bessie (though her presence was far less obnoxious to me than that of Abbot, for instance, would have been), I scrutinised the face of the gentleman: I knew him; it was Mr. Lloyd, an apothecary, sometimes called in by Mrs. Reed when the servants were ailing: for herself and the children she employed a physician.Chapter 3 (7% in)
- Abbot, 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 unwonted kindness.Chapter 3 (25% in)
- It is not my house, sir; and Abbot says I have less right to be here than a servant.Chapter 3 (71% in)
- In the interview which followed between him and Mrs. Reed, I presume, from after-occurrences, that the apothecary ventured to recommend my being sent to school; and the recommendation was no doubt readily enough adopted; for as Abbot said, in discussing the subject with Bessie when both sat sewing in the nursery one night, after I was in bed, and, as they thought, asleep, "Missis was, she dared say, glad enough to get rid of such a tiresome, ill— conditioned child, who always looked as...Chapter 3 (90% in)
- Abbot, I think, gave me credit for being a sort of infantine Guy Fawkes.Chapter 3 (92% in)
- On that same occasion I learned, for the first time, from Miss Abbot's communications to Bessie, that my father had been a poor clergyman; that my mother had married him against the wishes of her friends, who considered the match beneath her; that my grandfather Reed was so irritated at her disobedience, he cut her off without a shilling; that after my mother and father had been married a year, the latter caught the typhus fever while visiting among the poor of a large manufacturing...Chapter 3 (93% in)
- Bessie, when she heard this narrative, sighed and said, "Poor Miss Jane is to be pitied, too, Abbot."Chapter 3 (96% in)
- "Yes," responded Abbot; "if she were a nice, pretty child, one might compassionate her forlornness; but one really cannot care for such a little toad as that."Chapter 3 (97% in)
- "Yes, I doat on Miss Georgiana!" cried the fervent Abbot.Chapter 3 (99% in)
- From my discourse with Mr. Lloyd, and from the above reported conference between Bessie and Abbot, I gathered enough of hope to suffice as a motive for wishing to get well: a change seemed near, — I desired and waited it in silence.Chapter 4 (0% in)
- When I was a little girl, only six years old, I one night heard Bessie Leaven say to Martha Abbot that she had been dreaming about a little child; and that to dream of children was a sure sign of trouble, either to one's self or one's kin.Chapter 21 (1% in)
There are no more uses of "abbot" in Jane Eyre.
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