 | 1859 - 684 pages
...like to fall into that pit, and to be burning there forever?" No, sir." What mast you do to avoid it?" carpet was red ; the table at the foot of the bed...with a crimson cloth ; the walls a soft fawn-color, w " How can you keep in good health? Children younger than you die daily. I buried a little child of... | |
 | Charlotte Brontë - 1872 - 520 pages
...fall into that pit, and to be burning there for ever?" " No, sir." " What must you do to avoid it? " I deliberated a moment; my answer, when it did come,...objectionable : " I must keep in good health and not die." " How can you keep in good health ? Children younger than you die daily. I buried a little child of... | |
 | Charlotte Brontë - 1890 - 494 pages
...fall into that pit, and to be burning there forever ?" 'No, sir." ' What must you do to avoid it ? " I deliberated a moment ; my answer, when it did come,...objectionable: "I must keep in good health and not die." "How can you keep in good health ? Children younger than you die daily. I buried a little child of... | |
 | Charlotte Brontë - 1893 - 370 pages
...into that pit, and to be burning there for ever ? " " No, sir." " What must you do to avoid it ? " I deliberated a moment; my answer, when it did come,...objectionable : " I must keep in good health, and not die." " How can you keep in good health ? Children younger than you die daily. I buried a little child of... | |
 | Charlotte Brontë - 1905 - 356 pages
...fall into that pit, and to be burning there for ever ? " "No, sir." " What must you do to avoid it ? " I deliberated a moment ; my answer, when it did come,...objectionable : " I must keep in good health, and not die." " How can you keep in good health ? Children younger than you die daily. I buried a little child of... | |
 | Charlotte Brontë - 1905 - 450 pages
...into that pit, and to be burning there for ever ? " " No, sir." " What must you do to avoid it ? " I deliberated a moment : my answer, when it did come,...objectionable : " I must keep in good health and not die." " How can you keep in good health ? Children younger than you die daily. I buried a little child of... | |
 | Ford K. Brown - 1961 - 594 pages
...to fall into that pit, and to be burning there forever?' 'No, sir.' 'What must you do to avoid it?' I deliberated a moment; my answer, when it did come,...objectionable: 'I must keep in good health, and not die.' ' How can you keep in good health? Children younger than you die daily. I buried a litde child of five... | |
 | Nancy Armstrong - 1987 - 318 pages
...to fall into that pit, and to be burning there for ever?" -No, sir." "What must you do to avoid it?" I deliberated a moment; my answer when it did come,...objectionable: "I must keep in good health and not die." (p. 27) As in Mr. Gradgrind's interrogation of girl number 20 in the opening of Dickens' Hard Times,... | |
 | Nancy Armstrong - 1987 - 318 pages
...to fall into that pit, and to be burning there for ever?" "No, sir." "What must you do to avoid it?" I deliberated a moment; my answer when it did come, was objectionable: "1 must keep in good health and not die." (p. 27) As in Mr. Gradgrind's interrogation of girl number... | |
 | Regina Barreca - 1994 - 204 pages
...to fall into that pit, and to be burning therefor ever?" "No, sir." "What must you do to avoid it?" I deliberated a moment: my answer, when it did come,...objectionable: "I must keep in good health, and not die." (64) Jane's lateral thinking does not impress Brocklehurst. He cannot see the humor in such a reply,... | |
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What must you do to avoid it?' I deliberated a moment; my answer, when it did come, was objectionable: 'I must keep in good health, and not die. 
