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  • (dramatic drumming)

  • (somber classical music)

  • (hooves clopping)

  • - This is Jane Eyre, carriage paid.

  • (tense music)

  • (bell ringing)

  • (coughing)

  • (children chattering)

  • - It's so cold.

  • - Are you new?

  • (coughing)

  • - When is breakfast?

  • - Not for two hours.

  • Are you hungry?

  • You'll be hungry after breakfast, too.

  • - [Jane] Yes.

  • (water splashing)

  • - Burns, you're disgusting.

  • You did not wash your neck.

  • Take the brush and scrub it.

  • Scrub it.

  • Perhaps you won't smell quite so much today, Burns.

  • - Once again, it is my duty to remind you

  • that we are not here to pamper you.

  • You are here because God, in His wisdom,

  • has chosen to make you orphans, and dependent

  • on the charity of others.

  • "If ye suffer hunger or thirst for my sake, happy are ye."

  • Who here is hungry?

  • Who here is thirsty?

  • Oh, surely one of you is hungry.

  • Surely there is one hungry child in the school.

  • Ah, there is one.

  • Step forth.

  • Lets us see who it is.

  • (tense music)

  • Of course.

  • This is the new girl, Jane Eyre.

  • I know this child.

  • She was sent here by her aunt,

  • a benefactress of this school.

  • Bring a stool, so that we may all see her.

  • Come here, girl.

  • Children, it is my duty to warn you against this girl.

  • Her name is Jane Eyre.

  • Shun her.

  • Guard yourselves against her.

  • For I had it from her aunt, who took her in,

  • that she is deceitful and refuses to submit.

  • Look at her face.

  • Does it not show?

  • Fortunately, it's a plain face.

  • Otherwise, who knows what winning ways

  • she would employ against the world.

  • It's our duty to punish her body to save her soul,

  • and make sure that at Lowood, she learns her place.

  • (coughing)

  • (wind rustling)

  • (bell ringing)

  • - [Girls] We have learned in faith

  • and are made by your sheep.

  • We have learned too much and (speaking over each other)

  • in our own hearts.

  • We are ready to be finally yours.

  • (speaking over each other)

  • - [Girl] Help me, please!

  • (screaming)

  • - Please, let me in.

  • Please.

  • I'm cold.

  • Please.

  • - Jane, I'm all right.

  • - Burns?

  • Pushing your way in as usual, Burns?

  • For your pains, you will sit in the corridor.

  • (coughing)

  • - And you, Jane Eyre, may remove that look from your face.

  • (Helen coughing)

  • - [Jane] Helen?

  • - Jane, go to sleep.

  • It's late.

  • - I can't sleep.

  • Are you ill?

  • - No.

  • It's a little cough.

  • I've always had it.

  • - I hate it here.

  • Why is she so cruel to you?

  • - Miss Scatcherd?

  • Oh, she dislikes me.

  • - I hate her.

  • - No.

  • You mustn't hate, Jane.

  • - I do.

  • I hate her more than Mrs. Reed.

  • - Who is she?

  • - My Aunt, who sent me here.

  • (Helen coughing)

  • (dramatic music)

  • Why did my parents have to die?

  • Why?

  • - [Girls] Lannister, York, Tudor, Stewart, and Hannover.

  • - [Teacher] Good, continue.

  • - [Girls] Norman, Plantagenet, Lancaster, Norman.

  • (girls speaking over each other)

  • (speaking in foreign language)

  • - [Girls] William I, William II, Henry I, Stephen.

  • - [Woman] Then the evangelist--

  • - [Girls] William I, William II, Henry I, Stephen.

  • - [Teacher] Read it once more.

  • - [Girls] William I, William II, Henry I, Stephen.

  • - Miss Temple, what child is this?

  • - [Temple] Jane Eyre, Mr. Brocklehurst.

  • - And why, in defiance of every precept and principle

  • of this house, does her hair wave?

  • - It waves naturally, Mr. Brocklehurst.

  • - Come here, Jane Eyre.

  • (speaking in foreign language)

  • - [Teacher] Continue, please.

  • - We are not concerned with nature, here.

  • Scissors, Miss Temple.

  • - No, please.

  • Don't cut my hair!

  • - Scissors.

  • - Oh, no!

  • - You see, Miss Temple,

  • where overindulgence--

  • - No!

  • Please.

  • My hair!

  • - Away with her.

  • It is our duty to mortify in these girls

  • the lusts of the flesh.

  • Take these relics of Satan and see they are burned.

  • - Eyre, you will stand on a stool for half an hour

  • and meditate on the virtues of submission.

  • No one will speak to you for the rest of the day.

  • - Come, Jane.

  • - And for disobeying my orders, Burns,

  • you may stand on a stool, yourself.

  • (dramatic music)

  • No, Burns.

  • You may stand on yours outside.

  • Did I tell you?

  • (bell ringing)

  • (clock ticking)

  • (Helen coughing)

  • (thunder roaring)

  • (Helen coughing)

  • (thunder roaring)

  • (Helen coughing)

  • - The girl is dying rapidly.

  • You know that, of course.

  • - Yes.

  • I've made arrangements for her to go home.

  • - Oh, good.

  • Yes, good.

  • - Helen?

  • Are you awake?

  • - Is it you, Jane?

  • It's past midnight.

  • - I couldn't sleep.

  • I could hear you coughing.

  • I had to come see you.

  • - You came to bid me goodbye, then?

  • - Are you going away?

  • - Yes.

  • They are sending me home to my guardian.

  • (coughs)

  • I'm so pleased you're here.

  • Come in, come in, it's cold.

  • - Oh, Helen, don't stay away long.

  • Come back soon.

  • - I shall.

  • You'll see.

  • When the fall weather comes, and the heather

  • is in bloom on the moors, I'll be back.

  • We shall have long talks again, you and I,

  • just as we used to, long talks.

  • Oh, Jane, I'm so tired.

  • So tired.

  • Stay with me, and be here when I come back.