"Jane Eyre"
by Charlotte Bronte

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     "Miss Eyre, are you ill?" said Bessie.

     "What a dreadful noise! it went quite through me!" exclaimed Abbot.

     "Take me out! Let me go into the nursery!" was my cry.

     "What for? Are you hurt? Have you seen something?" again demanded Bessie.

     "Oh! I saw a light, and I thought a ghost would come." I had now got hold of Bessie's hand, and she did not snatch it from me.

 

     "She has screamed out on purpose," declared Abbot, in some disgust. "And what a scream! If she had been in great pain one would have excused it, but she only wanted to bring us all here: I know her naughty tricks."

     "What is all this?" demanded another voice peremptorily; and Mrs. Reed came along the corridor, her cap flying wide, her gown rustling stormily. "Abbot and Bessie, I believe I gave orders that Jane Eyre should be left in the red-room till I came to her myself."

     "Miss Jane screamed so loud, ma'am," pleaded Bessie.

 
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