“The next day commenced as before, getting up and dressing by rushlight; but this morning we w
“The next day commenced as before, getting up and dressing by rushlight; but this morning we were obliged to dispense with the ceremony of washing; the water in the pitchers was frozen. A change had taken place in the weather the preceding evening, and a keen north-east wind, whistling through the crevices of our bedroom windows all night long, had made us shiver in our beds, and turned the contents of the ewers to ice.” — Charlotte Brontë (Jane Eyre) -- source link
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