The said Eliza, John, and Georgiana were now clustered roundtheir mama in the drawing-room: she lay reclined on a sofa by the fireside, andwith her darlings about her (for the time neither quarrelling nor crying)looked perfectly happy. Me, she had dispensed from joining the group; saying,“She regretted to be under the necessity of keeping me at a distance; but thatuntil she heard from Bessie, and could discover by her own observation, that Iwas endeavouring in good earnest to acquire a more sociable and childlikedisposition, a more attractive and sprightly manner — something lighter,franker, more natural, as it were — she really must exclude me from privilegesintended only for contented, happy, little children.”
Charlotte Bronte, "Jane Eyre", 1.3
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