There was no possibility of taking a walk that day. We had been wandering, indeed, in the leafless shrubbery an hour in the morning; but since dinner {Mrs. Reed, when there was no company, dined early} the cold winter wind had brought with it clouds so sombre, and a rain so penetrating, that further out-door exercise was now out of the question.
( Charlotte Brontë )
[ Jane Eyre ]
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