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Jane Eyre

There was no possibility of taking a walk that day . We had been wandering , indeed , in the leafless shrubbery an hour in the morning ; but since dinner ( Mrs . Reed , when there was no company , dined early ) the cold winter wind had brought with it clouds so sombre , and a rain so penetrating , that further out - door exercise was now out of the ____________________ .

I was glad of it : I never liked long walks , especially on chilly afternoons : dreadful to me was the coming home in the raw twilight , with nipped fingers and toes , and a heart saddened by the chidings of Bessie , the nurse , and humbled by the consciousness of my physical inferiority to ____________________ , John , and Georgiana Reed .

The said Eliza , John , and ____________________ were now clustered round their mama in the ____________________ - room : she lay reclined on a sofa by the fireside , and with her darlings about her ( for the time neither quarrelling nor crying ) looked perfectly happy . Me , she had dispensed from joining the group ; ____________________ , " She regretted to be under the necessity of ____________________ me at a distance ; but that until she heard from Bessie , and could discover by her own observation , that I was endeavouring in good earnest to acquire a more sociable and childlike disposition , a ____________________ attractive and sprightly manner - - something lighter , franker , more natural , as it were - - she really must exclude me from privileges intended ____________________ for contented , happy , ____________________ ____________________ .