#saluting those of you who prune following often

[ossyria]

*pants* *wheezes* *collapses on the fucking floor* i did it... i cleaned out my following for the first time ever since i joined in 2014 *dies*

[eyreguide]

The Jane Eyre Manuscript (VII)

This is part seven of cataloging Charlotte Bronte’s original edits from her Jane Eyre manuscript - Chapters 31-35. The format is the first line is the actual, final text from the novel, and the second line in italics features the original text in the manuscript.(Previously: Chapters 1-5 // Chapters 6-10 // Chapters 11-15 // Chapters 16-20 // Chapters 21-25  //  Chapters 26-30).  Enjoy!

Chapter 31

no edits

Chapter 32

“There was an enjoyment in accepting their simple kindness, and in repaying it by a consideration” (enjoyment in receiving their simple kindness)

“At this period of my life, my heart far oftener swelled with thankfulness than sank with dejection: and yet, reader, to tell you all, in the midst of this calm, this useful existence” (my heart far oftener swelled with thankfulness than sank with dejection: could I...)

“It is not despair of success that keeps me dumb.  If I offered my heart, I believe you would accept it.”  (If I offered my hand, I believe you would accept it.)

“One evening, while, with her usual child-like activity, and thoughtless yet not offensive inquisitiveness, she was rummaging the cupboard and the table-drawer of my little kitchen" (she was running over the cupboard) 

“I know poetry is not dead, nor genius lost; nor has Mammon gained power over either, to bind or slay: they will both assert their existence, their presence, their liberty and strength again one day.” (to bind or slay, over either...)

“Yes, yes; I know all that.  But what of the resemblance?  Who is it like?” (Is it like...?)

“As far as I can see, it would be wiser and more judicious if you were to take to yourself the original at once.”  (it would be more judicious and wise if you were to take to yourself the original at once.)

There is something brave in your spirit, as well as penetrating in your eye (There is something brave in your soul)

So much has religion done for me; turning the original materials to the best account; pruning and training nature. (turning the original materials to the best account, sculpturing the likeness pruning)

But she could not eradicate nature: nor will it be eradicated ‘till this mortal shall put on immortality.’”  (could not eradicate nature - nor will it be eradicated till I lay down the [?] and pass through the ordeal of death to eternity)

Chapter 33

“ The massive towers, the donjon keep,/The flanking walls that round them sweep” (The battled towers)

“he had in all probability left England and rushed in reckless desperation to some former haunt on the Continent.“ (to some old haunt on the Continent)

Oh, my poor master—once almost my husband—whom I had often called “my dear Edward!” (whom I had often called “my dear Edward!” was he lost and fallen?  God forbid)

The two girls, on whom, kneeling down on the wet ground, and looking through the low, latticed window of Moor House kitchen (and gazing through the low, latticed window)

Those who had saved my life, whom, till this hour, I had loved barrenly, I could now benefit. (They who had saved my life)

Yes; slaving amongst strangers!  I, wealthy—gorged with gold I never earned and do not merit!  (Yes; starving amongst strangers!)

your presence is always agreeable to me; in your conversation I have already for some time found a salutary solace. (for some time found an agreeable solace)

Chapter 34

since those days I have seen paysannes and Bäuerinnen; and the best of them seemed to me ignorant, coarse, and besotted, compared with my Morton girls. (and always thought the best of them seemed to me ignorant, coarse, and besotted)

“Yes,” I said; “but I could not go on for ever so: I want to enjoy my own faculties as well as to cultivate those of other people. (I must enjoy my own faculties as well as)

I had previously taken a journey to S--- to purchase some new furniture: my cousins having given me carte blanche to effect what alterations I pleased, and a sum having been set aside for that purpose. (and a sum having been appropriated for that purpose)

He had not kept his promise of treating me like his sisters; he continually made little chilling differences between us, which did not at all tend to the development of cordiality (which did not at all tend to the development of confidence)

he pondered a mystic lore of his own: that of some Eastern tongue, the acquisition of which he thought necessary to his plans. (the acquisition of which he thought necessary to the furtherance of his plans.)

I never dared complain, because I saw that to murmur would be to vex him: (to murmur would be to annoy him)

I should say my ecclesiastical cousin’s salute belonged to one of these classes; but there may be experiment kisses, and his was an experiment kiss. (I should say my ecclesiastical cousin’s caress belonged to one of these classes)

 Can I bear the consciousness that every endearment he bestows is a sacrifice made on principle?  (Can I endure the consciousness that every endearment)  

Chapter 35

“And now you recall your promise, and will not go to India at all, I presume?” (And now you will no recall your promise)

“I am.  God did not give me my life to throw away; and to do as you wish me would, I begin to think, be almost equivalent to committing suicide. (I am mortally afraid)

He would not want me to love him; and if I showed the feeling, he would make me sensible that it was a superfluity, unrequired by him, unbecoming in me. (he would make me feel that it was a superfluity)

I had now put love out of the question, and thought only of duty).  I contended with my inward dimness of vision, before which clouds yet rolled. (I had now put love out of the question, withheld only to do right, and thought only of duty)

I broke from St. John, who had followed, and would have detained me.  It was my time to assume ascendancy. (and would have detained me.  I told him I was l)