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Quotation from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

“breathed typhus through its crowded schoolroom and dormitory, and, ere May arrived, transformed the seminary into an hospital.”

Charlotte Brontë (spoken by Jane Eyre (narrator))

Jane Eyre, Chapter IX (Project Gutenberg #1260)

Portrait of Charlotte Brontë

Jane describes the spring epidemic that sweeps half-starved Lowood and leads to the school's reform.

Citation: "breathed typhus through its crowded schoolroom and dormitory, and, ere May arrived, transformed the seminary into an hospital." — Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, Chapter IX (Project Gutenberg #1260). (id jane-eyre-q3)

Portrait: Jane Eyre title page, Unknown author, Public domain.

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