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My name is Jane Eyre. Iwas born in eighteen twenty, her time
of harsh changes in England. Moneyand position were all that mattered. Charity
was a cold and disagreeable world.Religion too often nearly a mask to cover
bigotry and meanness. As a child, I had no one, only an

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ant. I cannot remember that evenonce did she speak a single word of
kindness to me. When I wasten, she sent me away to school,
to a place called Lowood. Whatdo you want? I'm the new
girl, sir, Jane Eyre.You're aware of my identity. They told
me you are mister Brocklehurst's. Thatis correct. I am the supervisor of

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this institution. Excuse me, sir, I thought this was school. Lowd
is a refuge air, a refugefor paupers and orphans who, but for
these portals, are without homes.Here we give everything in return, we
demand nothing short of absolute obedience andhumility. I have tried to be a
good girl, sir. You havetried only to tormentio pour aunt. From

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what she told and from what isreadily observed, you're a wicked, worthless
child. That isn't sound all theearth there is no sight so terrible as
a wicked child. But I promiseall wickedness will be driven from you here.
Yeah, yes, sir, Getto your knees. We should pray
together for the salvation of your soul. That was my introduction to Lowood.

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It was like a prison, darkand cold, but never so dark nor
cold as mister Brocketthurst. His handreached everywhere through the sumber walls, and,
in the guise of Christian charity,tormented body and soul alike. Two
weeks after my arrival, he foundcourse to assemble all the children and ordered
me to stand before the monastool pupilsobserved this child dion gard against her,

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fund her example and avoid her company. And you, the teachers, watch
her well. Punish her body tosave the soul. Or already the evil
one has founded her a willing servant. She will remain on this tool for
twelve hours. Return to your classes. If we who were children at Lowwood

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did not flourish, at least wesurvived the true we had nothing to cling
to save each other, but thevery anguish that was Lowwood boundaries together still
more closely, life was better,I know, because I was there for
ten years, shortly after my twentiethfirst day, mister Brotholus sent for this

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is a solemn moment. Dear littledid I imagine that the unregenerate child I've
received under this institution would in tenshort years become one of its teachers?
The teacher, sir, the trusteeshave seemed fit to bestow that honor upon
you. But I cannot accept theofficer, And why not, prayer,

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I intend to find a position asa governess. I have advertised in a
newspaper. Doubtless you've been overwhelmed withdemands for your services. Now, Sir,
this is ridiculous. You have notalents, your appearance is insignificant.
I warn you, Air, ifyou persist in this holly, this chaven
will never again be open to you. I am leaving law Wood, Sir.

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My advertisement brought me a solitary answer, a letter signed by a Missus
Fairfax. It bore the crest ofThornfield Hall. I was a whole day
in reaching these states. As thenearest village, your coachman met me and
for two hours we rode through thedesolate moorlands. Then, in the deep
shadows of the evening, loomed beforeme, ancient and huge, beyond anything

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I had visioned. Its great towerstretched into the darkness, and with massive
stone walls botted out into the mistygroom, like the ramparts of a fortress.
I had arrived at. Songs inthe horn. You are miss eyre
my dear, Yes, madam,I'm missus Fairfax. Well, there's a

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nice cozy fire burning inside. Comewarm yourself, child, Thank you.
Shall I have the pleasure of seeingmiss Fairfaxts tonight, Miss Fairfax? Oh
you mean miss Adele? Is itnot your daughter to whom I shall be
governess? Oh? Gracious no,Adele is French. You will see her
in the morning. She is misterEdward's Ward, Mister Edward, mister Edward

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Rochester, the owner of Thornfield.Oh, I'm only the housekeeper. Will
he wish to see me this evening? Though he is not here. He's
very seldom at Thornfield, And thenhis visits are always sudden and unexpected and
brief. Oh this is such abeautiful home, Missus Fairfects. I mean,
it is hard to understand why misterRochester would choose to remain away.

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It is strange. But then missEyre, mister Rochester is a strange man
in many ways. Let me showyou to your room. Thank you.
I spent all the next day withAdele, a beautiful and charming child like
myself. She too was an orphan, and she won me over so quickly.

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That night, as I was makingher ready for bed, she showed
me one of her dolls. Thisis me me, Mademoiselle. Is such
a beautiful dress she has adel Mammahad it chest like that? Is it
anything dress, Mademoiselle? Mamma wasit? Beautiful? Dancer? I also
condensed, Do you wish me todance for you now? This very moment?

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You? No? You speak greatMonsieur Rochester. For him it is
never the right no more? Doesthat make you sad? Adare? Sometimes?
Momoss I love dancing. I shouldlike it too. A great many
gentlemen and ladies came to see mammadance. Where where was that in Paris?
But when Mama had to go toheaven, then mister Rochester came and

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brought me here. That big,huge chair downstairs, that is his chair.
He sits in it and stares intothe fire and frowns. But I'm
sure he's very kind to you.Oh, sometimes he brings beautiful presence.
But when he is angry, thatis terrible. Oh, but do not
be concerned, mademoiselle. Tonight Ishall pray to God to make him be

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polite to you, so you'll staywith me for than. Later that week,
quite early in the evening, Iwent for a walk alone. It
was cold, and huge clouds ofmist clung to the ground. It was

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like walking through a green with aroad ahead in Viking and invisible. There
must have been a turn in theroad, for I saw nothing and heard
nothing until it was upon me.And then I woun't know why. There
was a fearful cla of roofs anda man frantically shouting in A horse and
rider cross through the ground. Whatthe devil do you mean by that?

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Oh? I'm so sorry. Imust have frightened your horse. Can I
do anything? Apologies? Won't mendmy ankle. Stand out of the way,
but you're hurt. I told youto stand aside, but I can't
until I see that you're fit toride. Where are you from from mister
Rochester's house just below, you know, mister Rochester. No, no,
no, I've never met him.I'm not a servant at the hall and
the new governess. And if you'resatisfied now that I've broken no bones handing

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my whip and get out of myway here, thank you now, if
you will kindly stand clear for amoment, Yes, James, yes,
missus fact quickly, dear, he'sbeen asking to see the new governor,
mister Rochester. Of course rode inhonest without warning and it's such violume.

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Where is he inside before the firein his chair? Thank you? Well,
well, miss eyre, have youno tongue? I was waiting,
sir, and dely. I wasspoken to come here next time. When
you see a man on a horse, don't run out in the middle of

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the road until he's passed. Iassure you, sir, it was not
delivery. Where are you from LowoodInstitutions? That charity school? I was
there ten years, ten years inthe charity school. You must be tenacious
of life. No wonder you have, rather the look of another world about
you. When you came on inthe midst, I found myself thinking of

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fairy tales. I'd have for mindto demand whether you bewitched my horse for
your parents. I havens and yourhome. I had no homes who recommended
you here? Missus Fairfects answered myadvertisement. I see, and you rushed
here just in time. Throw meoff my horse. You played the piano?
Yes, hell little, I see. That's the established answer, isn't

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it. Good Night, miss Eyre, good night sir. What sort of
man was this, Master of Thornfield? Instinctively I felt that his harsh mood
had its source in some cruel crossof fate. After he said good night,
I went to my room. Ihad scarcely fallen asleep when I heard

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it out. A voice and anightmare, a while insane lifter, a
woman's laughter that seemed to come fromsomewhere in the tower of Thornty Hall.
I opened my door. At theend of the long hall, in front
of the stone steps leading to thetower, I saw Missus Staffat. She
was talking to someone. Must Itold you time and time again, it

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can be heard all over the house. Good night, Oh Jane, Did
I disturb you, my dear?There's nothing wrong wrong? Or oh dear,
No, I was talking to GracePoole. She's a person we have
to do the sewing. She doesexcellent work, but she's a little peculiar
will. How did you get onwith mister Rochester, my dear? He's

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he always so abrupt? Well,he has his moods, But then allowances
should be made. Why for himmore than anyone else? Partly because that's
his nature, and partly because hehas painful thoughts? Missus pairfecks. I
don't mean to be curious for familytroubles, Jane. I think that's why

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he so seldom comes here to Thornfield. It has unpleasant associations for him.
Good night, my dear, goodnight's terrible Sair. Tell me you you
have been here? Now? Howlong is it? Eight days? Eight
days? You puzzle me a greatdeal, And from the way you stare

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at me, it's apparent that Ialso am something of a puzzle to you.
Examine me, miss heir. Whatdoes my face tell you? Am
I a fool? Is it theface of a kindly man? Hardly that?
No? I'm not a kindly man, although I did once have a
sort of tenderness of heart. Please, I have been knocked about by fortune,
miss Air. She has kneaded mewith her knuckles till now I flatter

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myself. I am as hard andas tough as an India rubber ball,
or perhaps one small sensitive point inthe middle of the lump. Does that
leave hope for me? Hope forwhat of my transformation from India rubber back
to flesh. You're silent, Missair. Keep your silence there and listen.
I do not wish to treat youas an inferior. But I've battled through

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a varied experience with many men ofmany nations. I've roamed over half the
globe, while you've spent your wholelife with one set of people in one
house. Don't you agree that givesme the right to be a little masterful.
You pay me thirty pounds a yearfor receiving your orders to do as
you please, sir, as well, I'm that mercenary grandal. You agreed
to let me bully you a little, No, sir, only on the

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ground that you inquired of my feelings, as you're equal, and you'll not
think me insolent. I should nevermistake informality for insolent, sir. Now
where are you going? It's timefor those lessons. You're afraid of me.
You look at me and you hesitatethe smile even to speak. Admit
it you're afraid. I am bewildered, sir. I'm certainly not afraid.

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You See it is time, sir, I'm here there you too, miss
yet See it's the d l yesyou praton Is. It did not look
beauty. See go upstairs, goupstairs, come with me, I say,
I'm not finished talking with you.I go to your nursery, dine.
I'll come up in just a moment. Yes, are you looking at

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me like that? Miss Eyre.I don't care what your past misfortunes were.
You have no right to adventure yourselfupon the child. You're quite right,
of course, I was thinking onlyof myself, my own private memories
and feelings. You may leave now, thank you. I I hope you
will be happy here at Thorn,for I hope so too, sir.

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Three nights later, I was againawakened by that awful laughter and a noise
in the hall, like a pattingof running feet. I threw a wall
over me, lit a candle,and open my door. I could see
no one in the hall, butfaintfully I heard this sort of crackling noise.
It seemed to come from his room, mister Rochester's. As I drew
near his door. I thought itwas partly opened, just a crack that

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through it cleansed ames light. Andthen then suddenly I could see smoke,
smoke and fire. Mister, it'sout here. The fire is out.
Please open the window. The fireseems only to have been at my bed,

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the bed curtains and the sheets.I'll get missus tacks. What the
devil you want to call her?For a letter? Sleep? If someone
started from stay here? Where areyou going? I won't be long?
Stay here and be as quiet asyou can. M He took a candle
and walked quickly down the hall.The window of his room looked out upon

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the tower, and through the ventsin the tower hall, I could see
now then a flicker off of thecandle as it mounted higher and higher up
the winding stairs. There was somethingin the tower that had to do with
the fire. The light from thecandle seemed to cling to the top of
the tower. And and I don'tknow how long later he's glimmered his way

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down again. There were footsteps inthe hall, and mister Rochester returned to
his room. He closed the doorand looked at me. When you came
out of your room, tonight whenyou saw the fire and awaken me.
Had you seen anything else, Missair? No, did you hear anything?

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Yes, here's a kind of blood, kind of there's a strange woman living
here, Gracepool Pool. Yes,it's Gracepool. Well, I can see
what must be done. Meanwhile,say nothing about this to anyone. You
need not be alarmed about Adele.I looked in the nursery just now and
Bell was all right. She's asleep. A child has dancing in her blood,

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and the coquetry in the very marrowof her bones. She has shown
you her dullness. Are her dancingdoll with her dress like her mother's.
Her mother was a dancer in theballet of the paras Opraa, and that
was the image of them. Butshe's dead, is dead, that is
what we tell h. The truthis not quite so touching. Oh,

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she has had so little to love. I shall try to make up for
that. Are you always drawn tothe loveless and unfriended when it is deserved?
Would you say that my life deservessaving? I should be distressed if
harmon came to you, sir,But uny sort of sentiment is that you

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saved my life tonight, miss Eyre, I knew you would do me good
in some way at some time.If I did, I'm I'm very happy.
Good Night Jane, Good night,sir. There was no sleep for

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me. The balance of that night, the insane laughter, the fire,
the story of poor little Adelle.Each was a fragment of a tormenting and
frightening puzzle. But most bewildering ofall was the Master of Thornfield Hall,
this brooding melancholy man, bitter andunpredictable as the winds that raced across the

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neighboring walls, and like the winds, searching and long ends. I was
up early the next morning, butnot early enough. Mister Rochester was gone
at breakfast. Missus Fairfick's tone,well, he said something about the Millcock.

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Perhaps he's bound there. Perhaps notMilcock. Lady Ingram's estate the other
end of the county. She hada daughter, Blanch Ingram and mister Rochester
are old friends. Oh, Isee, if you'll excuse me, Missus
Fairfacks, I'll go up to Adele. But Adele was still sleeping. As

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I left her room, my eyesturned to hear the tower staircase almost against
my will. I walked to theancient stone steps, started to climb halfway
up the great door bar the way, but it was opened, and I
slipped past. At the top ofthe stairs was a There was another door,

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but before I reached it, therecame a sudden screaming and smiling,
half human, half animal, anda studding sound as if a piss and
tearing at the farest it's cage.I really under stairs, the stunned to
descend, with the door behind theswung open, and a boy's roofing where
I stood? What are you doinghere? Who? Who are you?
Faithful? You? Who I am? Grace poole? Never come up here?
Never? Why? What is thewhat are you eye? No one's

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allowed of here? Do you understand? No one? Now? Go down?
Go down? And so for me, the mystery of the tower continued
unsolved. Edward Rochester remained away inthe winter weeks dragged by. I found
a measure of content to Nidadel asapparent fondness for me, And then early

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in the spring he returned, buthe did not come along. He descended
suddenly upon us, with a dozenguests, among them Lady Ingram and her
daughter Blande Well come in, Jane. You know I've been home for hours,
but not a word out of you. Why you've been with your guests?

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I had no wish to disturb you. What have you been doing while
I've been away teaching it there?Yes, and getting a good deal of
paler than you were. What's thematter? Nothing? You're depressed? What
about? I'm not depressed, sir? So depressed at a few words more
and there will be tears in youreyes. Jane, Jane, you must
tell me? What is it?Gentlemen to see you? Sir? Who

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is mister Mason? He said,a Spanish town jamake a mason Spanish?
Take him to my study, missusFairfax. Yes, sir, Jane,
I wish I were on a quietisland with only you. Trouble and danger
and hideous recollection far away. CanI help you, sir? If help

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is needed, I'll seek it atyour hands. I promise you that,
Jane. Yes, if all thepeople gathered in that other room and came
and spat on me, what wouldyou do? I turned them away if
I could, Or if I wereto go to them and they turned away
and left me alone with them,would you go with them? That?
I would stay with you, sir, to comfort me as well as they

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could. I was to learn alittle more from mister Mason later that night.
It was long past midnight. Thewhole house was sleeping when it happened
again, an awful screaming from thetower. So also frightened the guests.

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Luck from the rochester. He hada convenience explanation ready for them. It
was one of the servants, hesaid, a servants having a bad dream.
That's all. It was a baddream. And now, since these
halts are inclined to be drafty,I suggest you all return to your rooms.
Lady Ingram, you set the goodexample. Good Night to you all
again. Goodness, it's almost morning. Good night Edward, and good morning.

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Three dreams, my courageous blash.There will be no more disturbances,
I promise you. Cana you awake, Yes, come with me quickly.
We're going up there to the tower. Yes, you don't turn at the
sight of blood, do you.I've never been cried. I don't think

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just me. Your hand won't doto risk of faint. Jane. What
you see may shock and frighten andconfuse you. I beg you not to
seek an explanation only to trust me. Can you do that? I can
do that? And the tower roomwas a bit on it. Bloody and
unconscious was the man. There wasa door on the other side of the

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small room. It was a curedwith a heavy chain. From beyond it
came a horrible sound of sobbing andscratching now and then the voice of risk.
But I had time neither thinks norbecome frightened. Jane, I must
get doctor Rivers. This means leavingyou alone here with this gentleman. You
will sponge the blood as I donow. If he regains consciousness, do
not speak to him on any account. As that clear, Jane. Yes,

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whatever happens, do not move fromhere or open that door. I'll
be back as quickly as I canpass actors. Jane, are you all
right? I'm right. He hasregained consciousness. With twenty minutes, doctor
forddressing the wound and getting the patientout of here. They're sir told,

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wait a minute, Mason, I'mnot done for it. That's nonsense.
You've lost a little blood, that'sye. He's like, it will be
better if you don't talk and letme get to work. She said she'd
drained. My heart's silent, Mason, Jane. Yes, go downstairs quietly
on both the side passage door.You'll find doctor Rivers's carriage down there.
See that the driver is ready toleave the moment we come down, sir,

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I hope you doctor. Yeah,this will be painful. Mason's got
to be helpful. I told younot to come here. Mason, I
thought I could do some good.Thought I still please. I tried so
long to avoid exposure. I shallmake very certain it doesn't come now.
Doctor Rivers will take you to hishome. You'll remain there until you're well.
It was Yes, you little betaken care of. Please let it

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be treated as tenderless. Maybe I'lldo my best, and I have done
it and will do it. Itwould God, they were an end to
all this. Go on, Jane, Mason and doctor Rivers. Yes,
and it's daylight again. I promisedi'd turned to you for help. I

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didn't know it would be so soon. I was thankful I was here.
You could walk for a moment inthe garden, Jane. It's so fresh
and clean there. Mister Rochester,Gracepool live here, sting. Yes,
Gracepool will stay don't ask for explanations. Just believe me when I tell you
there are good reasons for it.You're my friend, Jane, aren't you.

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I'd like to serve you and neverthink that's right. And if I
asked you to do something that waswrong with then I know the answer.
Very quietly, you'd say, Oh, no, sir, that's impossible.
Would I? Jane? Imagined youwere a young man, thoughtless and spoiled

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since childhood, and imagine yourself andfar off land, conceive that you there
commit a capital error, one thatcuts you off from all possibility of human
joys, and then suddenly imagine thatfate offers you the chance of regeneration and
true happiness. Are you justified inoverleaping the obstacles of mere custom? How

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can I answer that every conscious mustcome to its own decision. But if
one can't come to a decision,if you're afraid that you may bring shame
to what you most cherish, ordestroy what you most desire to protect.
Oh, Jane, don't you curseme for plaguing you like this? No?
I don't. This is your assuranceon that your hand, your fingers

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a cold, they were warmer lastnight Jane, will you watch with me
again another night whenever I can beused, for instance, the night before
I'm married. Will you sit withme? Then you're going to be married

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sometime? Why not? But whatmakes you think he's a mistage place?
Because that's a delectable miss Ingram thatyou What do you mean by running off
like this so early? Excuse me, Jane? And what do you mean
by rising so early? A correcthost entertains this guest, my dear Blanche?

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When will you learn I was nevercorrect and never will be? Come
along? Well? Why do youstop, Blanche? Or don't you know
the rest of it? Edward?Does that person wish to see you?
Person? Oh? Come in,miss Eyre. I'm sorry, sir,
I didn't know you were occupied.I'm sure miss Ingram will excuse me for

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a moment, certainly, but don'tforget Edward. You promise to show me
the estate. Oh, Jane,I have heard some of the guests after
luncheon. They mentioned you were leavingwith them in the morning. I wish
to ask for a reference reference.What the deuce do you want a reference
for? So I might look fora new place. You as much as

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told me you are going to bemarried well, in which case Adele would
likely go off somewhere to school.I see you then must go off to
school, and you must go tothe devil. Is that it? I
hope not, sir. When thetime comes for you to get a new
situation, I'll get one for you. Do you hear very well? I
may not see you again before youleave? Goodbye, mister Rogers, goodbye

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miss Eyre Jane, Jane? Isthat all? It seems so dry and
stingy? Won't you do more thansay goodbye? Oh your hand? You'll
shake my hand? Goodbye, Jane? In all the fields, the forests,

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and now the garden. Oh,it's such a beautiful place. You're
thorn. She's a dungeon. Itserves its purpose, dungeon. It's a
paradise, a haven, a havenof peace and love. Who's talking of
love? Distraction is what a manneeds, Distraction to keep him from fearing
too closely into the mysteries of hisheart. I sometimes wonder if you have
a heart? Head? Will ifI ever said anything to make you believe

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I have? Oh? Edward,are you never serious? Never more than
at this moment, except perhaps whenI'm eating my dinner really you can be
so revoltingly coarse at time? CanI ever be anything else? Would I
have come to Thornfield if I thoughtyou could? Well, now we have
something to consider. First, misterRochester is revoltingly coarse and ugliest. Sim
He's extremely careful, never to talkof love or marriage. However, and

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this is the third point, theingrams are somewhat impublished. Whereas the revolting
mister Rochester has an assured income ofeight thousand pounds a year. It was
now, in view of all this, what attitude shall missus blast be affected
to take? From what I knowof the world. I'd surmise he'd ignore
the costs, etcetera, etcetera,until such time as mister Rochester is safely
hooked. How dare you no,I've never been so insulid in my life,

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Lush, I have just paid youthe enormous compliment of being completely honest.
You're a foreign a care leave meat once. I guess this have
gone, Jane, all gone,and we are alone again. I will
be leaving too, mister Rochester soonto forget me. I will never forget

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you, forget you, you knowthat. But I see the necessity of
going. It's like looking on thenecessity of death. Where do you see
that necessity in your bride? Mybride? I have no bride, but
you will have, Yes, Iwill, I will. So you think
I could stay here to become nothingtoo? Do you think because I'm I'm

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poor and obscure and playing, thatI'm soulless and heartless. I have as
much soul as you, and fullyas much heart. And if God had
gifted me with welcome beauty, Ishouldn't have made it as difficult for you
to leave me as it is nowfor me to leave you. How where
that's spoken, Brock, Now letme go, Jane, Jane us strains

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your almost unearthly thing. You thatI love is my own. I have
no love for Blanche. It's youI want. Answer me, Jane quickly,
say Edward, I'll marry you.Say it. Say it, Jane,
say Edward, I'll marry you,Edward for you. God forgive me
Edward, God forgive me all mydoubts. All the grim shadows that hung

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over Thornfield Hall were shattered and gone. I loved, and I was loved.
Spring had come to the earth,and spring had come to my heart.
Two weeks later, Edward and Iwere in a little church in the
village, my hand in his,because now it would be forever the minister
had started a marriage ceremony. Areyou sure that if any persons are joined

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together otherwise than as the word ofGod allows, then are they not joined
by God? Hey? For EverardRochester and Eu Jane Eyre, if either
of you know any impediment, tryyou may not lawfully be joined in metremony.
You do now can fish it,Edward Rochester, that thou have this

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woman to be thy wedded? Way? Wait, I declare the existence of
a compediment. Proceed with the ceremonycannot proceed. Mister Rochester has a wife
now living. Who are you?My name is past. On the twentieth
of October eighteen twenty four, EdwardRochester was married to my sister that's a
mason at Saint Mary's Church, SpanishTown, Jamaica. The record of the
marriage will be found the register atthat church. You swear you're speaking?

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Who wear it? My sister's livingnow at Thornfield Hall. I've seen that.
I myself out and close your book. There will be no wedding today.
Instead, I invite you to myhouse to meet Grace Poole's patient,
my wife. He'd seen me withoutend, said Johnney back to Thornfield Hall.

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On the way we stopped to getdown the rivers. Edward insisted he
come back with us. That sheis all I remember of the right back.
If words were spoken, I didnot hear them. And then at
length I found myself with Grace Pooleand the others standing again in the tower
room. So I was a rattleand unlocking her chains. And the door
opened, and the wife Bob EdwardRochester stood before him, screaming. She

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flung herself upon him for eager hands, God, for his throat beneath.
She had no time to do inharm Grace woman. The doctor sprang upon
her. When they returned, howthe door was shut again? Have a
change fastened? Only then did Edwardspeak to us. The woman you have
seen is my wife, mad,the mad offspring of a mad family,

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to whom the Church in law bindme forever without hope of divorce. And
this is what I wished to have. This young girl who stands among you
now, so grave and quiet atthe mouth of hell. Look at the
difference and then judge me, andI did not even know her. I

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was married at nineteen in Spanish townto have Rid already caught it for me.
But I married her, gross,groveling, molight bluckhead that I was,
Jane, do you hear me?I suffered all the agonies of a
man bound to a wife at oncein temperate and unchased. I watched her
excesses, driver at last into madness, brought her back to England, to
Thornfield. Jane, I did everythingat God and humanity demanded. Then I

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fled from this place. My fixedas eye was to find a woman I
could love, a contrast to thefury I had left here. And what
did I find? An actress inVienna, a milliner in Naples, a
countess in Warsaw. Back in England, I rode again inside of Thornfield.
Someone someone was walking there in themidst, a strange elfinlike creature. She

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frightened my horse, then came upand gravely offered me help and her hand.
And then later that evening, Jane, do you remember, I remember
you came into that room, howshy you were, and yet how readily

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you answered my surly questioning. Andthen you smiled at me, and in
that moment I had found you.Jane, Can you forgive me? I
do forgive you, and you canstill love me. I love you with
all my heart. I can sayit now, since it's for the last

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time. Do you mean to goone way in the world and let me
go another? Stay with me?Jane? We'd be hurting. Noah,
we should be hurting ourselves. Wouldit be so wicked to be near me?
I'm leaving it, but surely youknow that I must. He will
not be my comforter, my rescuer, Jane, my deep love, my
frantic prayer, are they nothing need? Goodbye? Edward, God, bless

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you, God, keep you fromharm and gold Jane, Jane, I
had only one place to go awayfrom you, anywhere there would be away
from him, But without references itwas impossible to fine employment. I soon

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intimately knew hunger and unsheltered knights wouldlast without help or hope. I turned
like a beaten dog back to Lowood. Mister Brocklehurst forgot his word, never
to open its doors to me again. So you're back here, penitent and

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number I suppose, pleading for mercyand prepared as ever I dare say to
return our favors with your accustomed deceit. If there's a place for me here,
I'm ready to beg for it.You would like to become a teacher,
yes, sir, we need noteachers. We have needed a girl
and the scullery. Do you wantit? A not? Yes, I'll

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stay get in a yes. Wait. Some months ago I had repeated inquiries
as to your whereabouts from a misterEdward Rochester. Obviously I was unable to
assist him. I know no EdwardRochester. I didn't ask you next little
difference if you do a lot.From his last letter, thanking me for

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my kindness, he said he wasleaving England forever. The summer passed,
it must fall again. And thenone day the watchman's wife came looking for
me. Jane, there's a gentlemanto see you outside, Nicolet. I
don't want to see him. Idon't want to see anyone. I told

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him you'd come right out for tellingyou a mistake, Oh girl, girl,
living all to yourself, killing yourselfin his tearless place. Send him
away if you want, but atleast see him who is a doctor.
Rivers. Thank you, gee,it is you, Yes, doctor Rivers,
what you look forgive me? Haveyou been here? I mean,

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no rudeness, but you're not hereto enquire about my health. No,
Jeane, I'm here at the requestof a friend. How did you know
I was at low I didn't,but I've been trying to find yours.
I received a letter about you theother day. My friend asked if I
and my journeys about would inquire afteryou. Well, I happened to see
that villain Brocklehurst. Have you answeredyour friend? How could I? Jane,

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I've just found you. You haven'tfound me, doctor. You've tried,
but no one knows where I am. Edward is back in England,
Jane. He's at Thorfield Hold again. He searched for you. Ever,
I beg you to tell him nothingbut why? No one knows better than
you. Why. Yes, it'sfor you to say, Jane. If

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you'd rather I who didn't answer meat all? Well, then I would.
I would rather you didn't answer toall. Good Bye, good bye,
Jane, Jane. His voice.Night after night I started to hear

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it. I struggled to shut myears from it, but I could not.
It was like a soul in pain, a wild and urgent cry,
more than I could bear. Iwould see him once again, speak with
him again. And after that Ineither knew nor cared what happened to me.
All I knew was that I mustgo, and go quickly. I

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reached the estate, but Thornfield Hall. It was nor more why I had
destroyed it all. I was staringat the pile of charred and black and
rubber when Missus Stangpack saw me.He came running from the gardener's cottage.
Oh Jesus, oh, my ffor good, what happened? It was
she who did it. She killedGrace Poole as she slept, and set

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fire to Thornfield, laughing roses.I ran on the nursery and carried a
deil in the gardens. As Istood there, I heard the laugh again.
She was on the roof, butwas just coming from the house.
He said nothing but turn and ranback into the flames. I saw him
get to the roof and make hisway toward her. She saw him too,
She ran to the edge and jumped. When we reached hers, she
was dead. And Edward Edward ashe was coming down the greatest staircase fell

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he was badly hurt. Yes,sir, the gel is waiting for her
supper. I'm coming. So thereis someone with you. Who is it?
Wh are you his eyes? He'she's blind Edward, I'll come back,

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Edward. Shame Jame a small sohot drinkers, my little flush off
face in her heart too, Jane. All you can feel now is pity.

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I won't have your pity. Head. You can't spend your life with
the ruins of a man. You'reyoung, so fresh, suit. Please
don't sanuate. Do you think Iwant to let you go? Oh?
My die? As the months wentby, he came to see the heavens

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once more, to see first theglory of the sun, and then the
miles splendor of the moon, nowat last the evening's start. And then
one day, as our first bornwas put into his arms, he could
see that the boy had his owneyes, as they once were, large

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and brilliant and glad.