I see at intervals the glance of a curious sort of bird through the cl…

Charlotte Bronte
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I see at intervals the glance of a curious sort of bird through the close set bars of a cage: a vivid, restless, resolute captive is there; were it but free, it would soar cloud-high. ✨ Charlotte Bronte (2013). Jane Eyre, p.177, Simon and Schuster
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I see at intervals the glance of a curious sort of bird through the close set bars of a cage: a vivid, restless, resolute captive is there; were it but free, it would soar cloud-high. ✨ Charlotte Bronte (2013). Jane Eyre, p.177, Simon and Schuster

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