Noch war meine Seele wund und schmerzhaft von dem, was soeben geschehen war, was Mrs. Reed in Bezug auf mich mit Mr. Brocklehurst gesprochen, von dem ganzen Inhalt ihres Gesprächs. Ich hatte jedes Wort ebenso klar empfunden wie ich es gehört, und das leidenschaftlichste Rachegefühl begann sich in mir zu regen.
What had just passed; what Mrs. Reed had said concerning me to Mr. Brocklehurst; the whole tenor of their conversation, was recent, raw, and stinging in my mind; I had felt every word as acutely as I had heard it plainly, and a passion of resentment fomented now within me.