Excerpt from Jane Eyre
Charlotte Bronte
They had got me by this time into the apartment indicated by Mrs. Reed, and had thrust me upon a stool: my impulse was to rise from it like a spring; their two pair of hands arrested me instantly.
What is the meaning of arrested as it is used in this sentence from the passage?
A) treated unkindly
B) took into custody
C) stopped the movement of
D) attracted the attention of
