[00:00.69] Chapter 4.
[00:03.18] Mr. Brocklehurst.
[00:05.88] I hoped I would be sent to school immediately, but for months nothing changed, except that Mrs. Reed separated me from her own children more than ever.
[00:17.25] I had to sleep and eat alone, and stay in the nursery while they were in the dining room.
[00:26.99] They must have been told to avoid me.
[00:31.40] Certainly, that was what they did.
[00:35.89] During Christmas, I was left out of all the parties and presents.
[00:42.79] But I did not really mind.
[00:45.91] At least, I didn't have to be with my cousins.
[00:54.33] One January morning, Bessie gave me a rough and thorough wash, brushed my hair hard, and sent me to Aunt Reed.
[01:04.10] She was sitting by the breakfast room fire, with a man in black who, with his great height, dark clothes and grim face, looked like a black pillar of stone.
[01:19.55] My aunt called him, Mr. Brocklehurst.
[01:25.99] This is Jane Air, Mr. Brocklehurst, she said.
[01:30.66] I would like her to go to your school at Lowood.
[01:35.95] Come here, Jane Air.
[01:38.58] He commanded in a deep voice and glowered down at me from under enormous bushy eyebrows.
[01:47.95] Do you say your prayers?
[01:50.50] Yes, sir.
[01:51.81] Do you like reading the Bible?
[01:57.42] Some of it, sir.
[02:00.99] Only some of it, how shocking.
[02:06.81] That proves you have a wicked heart.
[02:11.70] You must pray to God to take it away and give you a clean new one.
[02:21.07] I wanted to ask how this operation might be performed, but Mrs. Reed broke in.
[02:29.56] Mr. Brocklehurst, I must warn you of Jane's worst fault, she said.
[02:38.29] She tells lies.
[02:43.42] You must be very strict with her.
[02:49.57] It seems she wanted to spoil school for me before I even started, but what could I do?
[02:56.75] Nothing.
[03:00.96] I wish her to be made useful and kept humble, went on Mrs. Reed.
[03:07.22] As for holidays, she must spend all of them at Lowood.
[03:15.27] Of course, Mrs. Reed.
[03:19.08] She shall most certainly learn to be humble.
[03:23.84] Why, at Lowood we aim to crush all worldly pride, said Mr. Brocklehurst.
[03:32.22] I shall write to Miss Temple telling her to expect a new girl.
[03:40.45] He left.
[03:43.72] I knew I should go too, but I remembered what Aunt Reed had told him about me.
[03:51.60] I had to speak.
[03:57.91] I don't tell lies, I burst out suddenly.
[04:04.69] If I did, I should say I loved you, but I do not.
[04:10.95] I will never come to see you when I am grown up.
[04:16.46] If anyone asks me about you, I will tell them how you treated me with miserable cruelty.
[04:26.40] Send me to school soon, for I hate it here.
[04:34.61] I certainly will, murmured Mrs. Reed, and she rose and left.
[04:43.32] Bessie was unusually kind to me in my last days at Gates Head Hall.
[04:50.81] The last day of all, when she helped me pack, was one of the happiest I had known.