考研英语作文11200字：简爱(Jane Eyre)

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n in my face; for, all at once, without speaking, he struck suddenly and strongly. i tottered, and on regaining my equilibrium retired back a step or two from his chair.

that is for your impudence in answering mamma a while since, said he, and for your sneaking way of getting behind curtains, and for the look you had in your eyes two minutes since, you rat!

accustomed to john recds abuse, i never had an idea of replying to it: my care was how to endure the blow which would certainly follow the insult.

what were you doing behind the curtain? he asked.

i was reading.

show the book.

i returned to the window and fetched it thence.

you have no business to take our books; you are a dependant, mamma says; you have no money; your father left you none; you ought to beg, and not to live here with gentlemens children like us, and eat the same meals we do, and wear clothes at our mammas epense. now, ill teach you to rummage my book-shelves: for they are mine; all the house belongs to me, or will do in a few years. go and stand by the door, out of the way of the mirror and the windows.

i did so, not at first aware what was his intention; but when i saw him lift and poise the book and stand in act to hurl it i instinctively started aside with a cry of alarm: not soon enough however; the volume was flung, it hit me, and i fell, striking my head against the door and cutting it. the cut bled, the pain was sharp: my terror had passed its clima; other feelings succeeded.

wicked and cruel boy! i said. you are like a murderer — you are like a slave-driver — you are like the roman emperors!

i had read goldsmiths history of rome, and had formed my opinion of nero, caligula, &c. also i had drawn parallels in silence, which i never thought thus to have declared aloud.

what! what! he cried. did she say that to me? did you hear her, eliza and georgiana? wont i tell mamma? but first —

he ran headlong at me: i felt him grasp my hair and my shoulder: he had dosed with a desperate thing. i really saw in him tyrant: a murderer. i felt a drop or two of blood from my head trickle down my neck, and was sensible of somewhat pungent suffering: these sensations for the time predominated over fear, and i received him in frantic sort. i dont very well know what i did with my hands, but he called me rat! rat! and bellowed out aloud. aid was near him: eliza and georgiana had run for mrs reed, who was gone upstairs; she now came upon the scene, followed by bessie and her maid abbot. we were parted: i heard the words: —

dear! dear! what a fury to fly at master john!

did ever anybody see such a picture of passion!

then mrs reed subjoined:

take her away to the red-room, and lock her in there. four hands were immediately laid upon me, and i was borne upstairs.