Charlotte Bronte
Read about Charlotte Bronte and Jane Eyre. Change the extract of the novel into reported speech online and finish the rest of the extract on paper.
|Jane Eyre (excerpt from chapter 6) Charlotte Bronte |
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|Jumping over forms, and creeping under tables, I made my way to one of the fire-places; there, kneeling by the high wire |
|fender, I found Burns, absorbed, silent, abstracted from all round her by the companionship of a book, which she read by the |
|dim glare of the embers. |
|"Is it still 'Rasselas'?" I asked, coming behind her. |
|"Yes," she said, "and I have just finished it." |
|And in five minutes more she shut it up. I was glad of this. "Now," thought I, "I can perhaps get her to talk." I sat down by |
|her on the floor. |
|"What is your name besides Burns?" |
|"Helen." |
|"Do you come a long way from here?" |
|"I come from a place farther north, quite on the borders of Scotland." |
|"Will you ever go back?" |
|"I hope so; but nobody
|Jane Eyre (excerpt from chapter 6) Charlotte Bronte |
| |
|Jumping over forms, and creeping under tables, I made my way to one of the fire-places; there, kneeling by the high wire |
|fender, I found Burns, absorbed, silent, abstracted from all round her by the companionship of a book, which she read by the |
|dim glare of the embers. |
|"Is it still 'Rasselas'?" I asked, coming behind her. |
|"Yes," she said, "and I have just finished it." |
|And in five minutes more she shut it up. I was glad of this. "Now," thought I, "I can perhaps get her to talk." I sat down by |
|her on the floor. |
|"What is your name besides Burns?" |
|"Helen." |
|"Do you come a long way from here?" |
|"I come from a place farther north, quite on the borders of Scotland." |
|"Will you ever go back?" |
|"I hope so; but nobody