I could not help it: the restlessness was in my nature; it agitated me…

Charlotte Bronte
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I could not help it: the restlessness was in my nature; it agitated me to pain sometimes. ✨ Charlotte Bronte (2013). Jane Eyre, p.141, Simon and Schuster
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