Death Of A Schoolgirl: The Jane Eyre Chronicles (2012) - Plot & Excerpts
We can check on Adela while we are up there in the dormitory. There’s no need for you to carry that pillowcase and your wet shawl and bonnet along to see Mrs. Thurston. But we need to hurry. It will soon be time for dinner.” I followed Miss Miller as she trudged through the house. While she was clearly enamored of her surroundings at Alderton House, the opulence of the decor meant little to me. After all, Lucy Brayton’s home dazzled with the latest in fashionable furnishings, and Thornfield Hall had boasted ancient treasures that signaled the long-standing and exalted rank of the Rochester family. Yes, unlike Miss Miller, I was accustomed to finery—and I knew to look beyond its gloss and peer deeply at the raw material within. I could not help but compare this grandiose place to the girls’ school in Morton, where my cousin St. John Rivers had offered me a post as mistress. There, in a humble cottage, I had taught twenty scholars, coarsely clad little peasants for whom education was the only means of progress.
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