“ The eagerness of a listener quickens the tongue of a narrator. ”
Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre (16 October 1847). copy citation
| Author | Charlotte Brontë |
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| Source | Jane Eyre |
| Topic | story eagerness |
| Date | 16 October 1847 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1260/1260-h/1260-h.htm |
Context
“«Mr. Rochester has a right to enjoy the society of his guests.»
«No question about his right: but have you never observed that, of all the tales told here about matrimony, Mr. Rochester has been favoured with the most lively and the most continuous?»
«The eagerness of a listener quickens the tongue of a narrator.» I said this rather to myself than to the gipsy, whose strange talk, voice, manner, had by this time wrapped me in a kind of dream. One unexpected sentence came from her lips after another, till I got involved in a web of mystification; and wondered what unseen spirit had been sitting for weeks by my heart watching its workings and taking record of every pulse.” source
«No question about his right: but have you never observed that, of all the tales told here about matrimony, Mr. Rochester has been favoured with the most lively and the most continuous?»
«The eagerness of a listener quickens the tongue of a narrator.» I said this rather to myself than to the gipsy, whose strange talk, voice, manner, had by this time wrapped me in a kind of dream. One unexpected sentence came from her lips after another, till I got involved in a web of mystification; and wondered what unseen spirit had been sitting for weeks by my heart watching its workings and taking record of every pulse.” source
