what does "i was shrined in double retirement." mean?

In Jane Austen's time 'retirement' more commonly meant being alone or apart from the world. Some people still use the word in that sense (people 'retire to bed', for example) but today it is much more commonly used to describe the end of one's working life.

the whole sentence means she hid herself,right?
then what's the meaning of"in double retirement"?
plz,i'm still so confused...

I'm not quite sure why she says "double retirement" but I think that the breakfast room was apart from the rest of the house and, with the curtain drawn, she would not have been disturbed by whoever else was in the house. In the next paragraph she goes on to describe the scene a little more.

She has also just described how she had been excluded from the family group in the drawing-room, so perhaps she means that having been 'retired' from that group, she is 'doubly retired' by shutting herself away in the breakfast room.

ah now i know^^
thx so much for your help,man:)

No problem, Susan! I read Jane Eyre a very long time ago so I had to go and find it on the Internet and read the passage you referred to.

Jane Austen's English is quite hard for modern English-speaking students to understand fully. So many words have changed their meanings, often quite subtly. I'm not an English teacher but, now we are 'friends', if you want to PM me with anything like this, you are more than welcome!

i know,i know.i know u read it a very long time ago,cuz u fogot it's Charlote Bronte who actually wrote it^^
i'm still reading the book.hope it wont bother u too much next time i come to u with questions like this:)
good day,my friend^^

My bad, LOL ... of course it was Charlotte Bronte (and I knew at the time but typed 'Jane Austen' through association with the other 'Jane'!).

Charlotte Bronte did not like Jane Austen's writing, apparently. She felt that it did not have enough poetry and passion in it.

:D
mmm how do u think of jane's book?i just watched the movie pride and prejudice,the one made in like 1994 or so.not bad.so i think her book must be better than the movie^^

Pride and Prejudice is one of my favourite movies. I think that it makes the book a little easier for people today to understand but, as you say, it's always better to read the book as well!