To conceal the strange, wraith-like apparel it contained; which, at this evening hour ... gave out certainly a most ghostly shimmer through the shadow of my apartment. "I will leave you by yourself, white dream," I said.
Then farther on we read that:—
The moon shut herself wholly within her chamber, and drew close her curtain of cloud,
which is simply an antithetical paraphrase of Montagu's quoted verse on "The Waning Moon" which, like
A ... lady ... pale ... totters forth wrapt in a gauzy veil, out of her chamber.
And in the same chapter of Jane Eyre we read finally that the insane lady, who has come out of her chamber,
"... took my veil from its place; she held it up, gazed at it long, and then she threw it over her head, and turned to the mirror ... it removed my veil from its gaunt head, rent it in two parts, and flinging both on the floor, trampled on them."