Read this excerpt from Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, and note the word sallowness in the last sentence. Which part of the excerpt provides context clues for the meaning of this word? He ought now to have been at school; but his mama had taken him home for a month or two, “on account of his delicate health.” Mr. Miles, the master, affirmed that he would do very well if he had fewer cakes and sweetmeats sent him from home; but the mother’s heart turned from an opinion so harsh, and inclined rather to the more refined idea that John’s sallowness was owing to over-application and, perhaps, to pining after home.