Has there been a flood?

“You never felt jealousy, did you, Miss Eyre? Of course not: I need not ask you;…”

“Not a tie hold me to human society at this moment - not a charm or hope calls m…”

“Oh! that gentleness! how far more potent is it than force!”

“Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wr…”