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"That is a fiction--an impudent invention to vex me."
"No, Jane, you are not comfortable there, because your heart is not with me; it is with this cousin--this St. John. Oh, till this moment, I thought my little Jane was all mine! "
"Absolutely, sir. Oh, you need not be jealous! I wanted to tease you a little to make you less sad..But it you wish me to love you, could you but see how much I do love uou, you would be proud and content. All my heart is yours, sir: it belongs to you."
"You are no ruin, sir."
"Jane, will you marry me?"
"To be your wife is, for me, to be as happy as I can be on earth."
"Because you delight in sacrifice."
"The case being so, we have nothing in the world to wait for: we must be married instantly."
"Do you know, Jane, I have your little pearl necklace at this moment fastened round my bronze scrag under my cravat? I have worn it since the day I lost my only treasure: as a memento of her."
"I did, Jane. If any listener had heard me, he would have thought me mad."
I married him.
"she'll happen do better for him nor ony o' t' grand ladies."
I have been married ten years
He informed me then, that for some time he had fancied the obscurtiy clouding one eye was becoming less dense; and that now he was sure of it.
He anticipated his sure reward, his uncorruptable crown.

Mr. Rochester is seriously jealous and truely thinks that Jane loves her cousin and is just messing with his feelings. Until she tells him her heart belong to him and whatever. During their seperation Mr. Rochester kept Jane's pearl necklace, which truely shows how much he loves her and his devotion to her. Mr. Rochester proposes to Jane once more and this time they end up getting married and even have a boy. St. John died on his journy in India, which I believe is something he waited for.

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desolate spot
I had recognized him--it was my master, Edward Fairfax Rochester, and no other.
"When you go in, tell your master that a person wishes to speak to him, but do not give my name."
"God bless you, sir! I am glad to be so near you again."
"Certaintly--unless you object."
"My very soul demands you: it will be satisfied, or it will take deadly vengeance on its frame."
"It is time someone undertook to rehumanise you."
he would have never forced me to be his mistress.
"Well--you can leave me, ma'am; but before you go you will be pleased just to answer me a question or two."


Jane arrived at the place Mr. Rochester is staying, the place is not very beautiful and is hidded deep within the foilage. When Jane arrives Mr. Rochester at first doesn't believe it's her; he thinks it's just his mind playing a trick on him. They start catching up and Jane starts telling him about St. John. Mr. Rochester gets jealous of them and thinks that that she would prefer him.

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"My master was long-suffering: so will I be."
"I could decide if I were but certain, were I but convinced that it is God's will I should marry you, I could vow to marry you here and now--come afterwards what would!"
like him, I had put love out of the question, and thought only of duty.
--a known, loved, well-remembered voice--that of Edward Fairfax Rochester; and it spoke in pain and woe wildly, eerily, urgently.
"My spirit, is willing to do what is right; and my flesh, I hope, is strong enough to accomplish the will of Heaven, when once that will is distinctly known to me."
"I too have some to see and ask after in England, before I depart for ever."
I was already on my master's very lands.
I looked with timorous joy towards a stately house--I saw a blackened ruin.
It was burnt down just about harvest time.
"It's quite certain that it was her and nobody but her that set it going."
"for when Mrs. Poole was fast asleep, the mad lady, who was as cunning as a witch, would take the keys out of her pocket, let herself out of her chamber, and go roaming about the house, doing any wild mischief that came into her head."
"and for all Mr. Rochester sought her as if she had been the most precious thing he had in the world, and he grew savage--quite savage on his disappointment."
"He would be alone too."
"He is stone-blind."
"Old John and his wife: he would have none else. He is quite broken down, they say."


Jane thinks she hears the voice of Mr. Rochester calling out to her but it is her imagination, yet an instinctive bond that is between him because something did happen to him. When she goes to Thorfield the place is burnt down. Someone who used to work there told Jane that Mr. Rochester became savage and isolated himself because Jane had left him and that Mr. Rochester's lunatic wife burnt down the place and that Mr. Rochester lost sight in his eyes and had to have his hand amputated. Jane is so distraut and goes to where he lives now to see him.

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"You have hitherto been my adopted brother-I, your adopted sister; let us continue as such: you and I had better not marry."
"Adopted fraternity will not do in this case..either our union must be consecrated and sealed by marriage, or it cannot exist."
Seek one elsewhere than in me, St. John; seek one fiitted to you."
"Oh! I will give my heart to God, You do not want it."
I was with an equal-one with whom I might argue-one whom, if I saw good, I might resist.
"You will hasten to enter into that union at once."
but my heart and mind would be free.
"A part of me you must bocome."
"It is what I want."
"I scorn your idea of love."
and during that time he made me feel what severe punishment, a good, yet stern, a conscientious, yet implaceable man can inflict on one who has offended him.
"No, St. John, I will not marry you. I adhere to my resolution."
"Formerly, because you did not love me; now, because you almost hate me. If I were to marry you, you would kill me. You are killing me now."
"I will, while in town, speak to a married missionary, whose wife needs a coadjutor."
"There is no dishonour; no breack or promise; no desertion in the case."
"I am. God did not give me my life to throw away; and to do as you wish me, would."
"Are you going to seek Mr. Rochester?"
"but he forgets, pitilessly, the feelings and claims of little people, in pursuing his own large views."

Jane tells St. John that she will not marry him because there is no love and he hates her; that she would gladly go with him as his sister. He wont get that through his head and keeps insisting that she made a promise to him when she never even did. He doesn't think of anyone elso except what God wants.

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Literally, he lived only to aspire-after what was good and great, certainly: but still he would never rest; nor approve of others resting round him.
I comprehended all at once that he would hardly make a good husband: that it would be a trying thing to be his wife.
I saw he wished the quiter morrow was come.
He had not kept his promise of treating me like his sisters; he continually made little, chilling differences between us.
"I want you to give up German, and learn Hindostanee."
I could no longer talk or laugh freely when he was by
As for me, I daily wished more to please him: but to do so, I felt daily more and more that I must disown half my nature
"Now, Jane, you shall take a walk; and with me."
"Jane, come with me to India: come as my helpmeet and fellow labourer."
"God and nature intended you for a missionary's wife. It is not personal, but mental endowments they have given you: you are formed for labour, not my love. A missionary's wife you must-shall be. You shall be mine; I claim you-not for my pleasure, but for my Sovereign's service."
"If I join St. John, I abandon half myself: if I go to India, I go to premature death."
"He will never love me; but he shall approve me."

St. John takes Jane under his wing and starts teaching her things he wants her to learn. He treats her with indifference; nothinh like his sisters are treated. Once again Jane is playing the part of trying to please somebody. St. John requests that Jane marry him because it was what God wants; nothing to do with love. That made me crack up, what a way to propose to someone, at least with Mr. Rochester she was loved. Jane is in conflict because this marriage goes with her morals but she would not have love, which is what she rather have.

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"You don't know him-don't pronounce an opinion upon him."
"Briggs wrote to me of a Jane Eyre; the advertisements demanded a Jane Eyre; I knew a Jane Elliot. I confess that I had my suspecions, but it was only yesterday afternoon they were at once resolved into certainty. You own the name and renounce the alias?"
"Merely to tell you that your uncle, Mr. Eyre of Madeira, is dead; that he has left you all his property, and that you are now rich-merely that-nothing more."
"You are not, perhaps, aware that I am your namesake?-that I was christened St. John Eyre Rivers?"
"We are cousins; yes."
"You were serious when I told you you had a fortune; and now, for a matter of no moment, you are excited."
"You cannot fail to see that twenty thousand pounds divided equally between the nephew and the three nieced of our uncle, will give five thousand each?"
"With me, It is fully as much a matter fo feeling as of conscience: I must indulge in my feelings; I so seldom have had an oppurtunity of doing so."
"You cannot form a notion of the importance twenty thousand pounds would give you; of the place it would enable you to take in society."
"I don't want to marry, and never shall!"
"Yes, to go with me to Moor House: Diana and Mary will be at home in a week, and I want to have everything in order against their arrival."

St. John comes and visits Jane and casually brings up this orphan girl, who lived with the Reeds, went to lowood, worked at Thorfield, and almost married Mr. Rochester, and that this Mr. Briggs was looking for this girl, who's name is Jane Eyre. He them gets Jane to confess to being her, which she isn't concerned about all she cares is what's been going on with Mr. Rochester. St. John then tells Jane that they are cousins. She becomes very excited more so than hearing she is rich because her uncle died. Having family means more to her than materials and she wants to share the money with her cousins.

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"I love you, and I know you prefer me...But that heart is already laid on a sacred altar."
He could not-he would not-renounce his wild field of mission warfare for the parlours and the peace of Vale Hall.
A very different sort of mind was hers from that, for instance, of the sisters of St. John.
"Indeed! She is clever enough to be a governess in a high family, papa."
"With all his firmness and self-control, he tasks himself too far: locks every feeling and pang within-expresses, confesses, imparts nothing."
"Solitude is at least as bad for you as it is for me."
"She likes you, I am sure, and her father respects you. Moreover, she is a sweet girl-rather thoughtless; but you would have sufficient thought for both yourself and her."
"That while I love Rosamond Oliver so wildly-I experience at the same time a calm, unwarped consciousness, that she would not make me a good wife."
"You speak coolly enough; but you suffer in the conflict."
"I answer simply to have a little talk with you; I got tired of my mute books and empty rooms. Besides, since yesterday, I have experienced the excitement of a person to whom a tale has been half-told, and who is impatient to hear the sequel."

Miss Oliver is in love with St. John and he feels the same but his work wont allow him to marry. It's killing him inside. Again Him and Jane have much in common, how they refuse their feelings and keep themselves isolated; living in a type of solitude. After Jane and St. John talk he realizes that he doesn't truely think that Rosamond would make a good wife, fore she is too simple minded and vain.

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"It is a village school; your scholars will be only poor girls."
"I mean that human affection and sympathy have a most powerful hold on you."
"He hides a fever in his vitals."
"Our uncle John is dead."
He did love me-no one will ever love me so again.
"But you feel solitude an oppression? The little house behind you is dark and empty."
"but i cousel you to resist, firmly, every temptation which would incline you to look back."
What did St. John Rivers think of this earthly angel?
himself only knew the effort it cost him thus to refuse.
dreams where, admist unusual scenes, charged with adventure, with agitating risk and romantic chance, I still again and again met Mr. Rochester, always at some exciting crisis
Keenly, I fear, did the eye of the vistiress pierce the young pastor's heart.

The girls are going to be leaving and St. John has gotten Jane a job as mistress at his school that he is opening for the poor village girls. St. John supposedly has an illness, and their uncle John died. When at her new home Jane still thinks of Mr. Rochester and his love that she will never recieve again. St. John visits her and she meets Miss Oliver, who St. John always blushes around. Jane and St. John have much in common as they both isolate themselves from others and it gets to them.

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"but you are a visitor, and must go into the parlour."
"That, I must plainly tell you, is out of my power to do; being absolutely without home and friends."
"Do you mean to say, that you are completely isolated from every connection?"
"I am near nineteen, but I am not married, No."
"I will tell you as much of the history of the wanderer you have harboured, as I can tell without compromising my own peace of mind-my own security, moral, and physical, and that of others.
"No, I fear discovery above all things; and whatever disclosure would lead to it, I avoid."
"She has already said that she is willing to do anything honest she can do, and you know, St. John, she has no choice of helpers: she is forced to put up with such crusty people as you."
The more I knew of the inmates of Moor House, the better I liked them.
As to Mr. St. John, the intimacy which had arisen so naturally and rapidly between me and his sisters, did not extend to him.
I was sure st. John Rivers-pure lived, conscientious, zealous as he was-had not yet found that peace of God which passeth all understanding: he had more found it than had I.
"And they will go in three days now?"

The Rivers girls are very hospitable, they wont let Jane do anything because she is their guest. When she is a little better St. John starts questioning Jane; she tells him parts of her past, that she is using a fake name, and isn't married which is a sore topic to bring up. When he is going to continue questioning Jane, his sister steps in and tells him to stop harassing Jane. The more Jane stays she likes the girls even more but doesn't have that connection with St. John because he is a crusty fellow. Jane and St. John have a paralle between them in a way that they haven't truely found God and accepted themselves.

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"But he is in a better place, we shouldn't wish him here again. And then, nobody need to have a quiter death nor he had."
"No; not I. What can they do for you? You should not be roving about now; it looks very ill."
Alas! this isolation-this banishment from my own kind!
"All men must die," "but all are not condemned to meet a lingering and premature doom, such as yours would be it you perished here of want."
I saw there was pity in it, and I felt sympathy in her hurried breathing.
"My name is Jane Elliot."
"Strange hardships, I imagine--poor, emaciated, pallid wanderer!"
"She looks sensible but not at all handsome."
"The name, then, of that gentleman, is Mr. St. John Rivers?"

Jane comes to a house where the master has just died. The servant there is sends Jane away with nothing. Once again people have pushed Jane into isolation. While she is practically gonna collapse St. John is coming home and makes her come to. They ladies are very kind and take care of her, they never suspect her of anything only of having a hard time. Jane gives them a fake last name so they don't really know who she is. St. John doesn't seem to like her at all and even mentions that she is not a pretty person.

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"You will not come? You will not be my comforter, my rescuer? My deep love, my wild woe, my frantic prayer, are all nothing to you?"
"Mr. Rochester, I will love you and live with you through life till death."
hoping I should soon come to say I would stay with him, and be his. I longed to be his.
Not a tie holds me to human society at this moment-not a charm or hope calls me where my fellow creatures are.
I thought she loved me, outcast as I was
My rest might have been blissful enough, only a sad heart broke it.
I could not bear to return to the sordid village.

Mr. Rochester tries playing the guilt trip with Jane to make her stay. It doesn't work and late at night jane takes leave but whispers to Mr. Rochester that she loves him and will always be with him. She is now on her own and has no money, and no connections to the human society any longer she has isolated herself once more and is putting faith in nature. While she is forced to sleep out in the cold and beg for food she worries and thinks of Mr. Rochester when she is the one she should worry about. The town she is in, is full of people who look down upon those lower than them.

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"My father and my brother Rowland knew all this; but they thought only of the thirty thousand pounds, and joined the plot against me."
"For the doctors have discovered that my wife was mad-her excesses had prematurely developed the germs of insanity."
"I repudiated the contamination of her crimes, and wrenched myself from connection with her mental defects."
"I said this whilst I knelt down at, and unlocked which contained a brace of loaded pistols: I meant to shoot myself."
"Go and live again in Europe: there it is not known what a sullied name you bear; nor what a filthy burden is bound to you."
"My fixed desire was to find a good and intelligent woman, whom I could love: a contrast to the fury I left at Thornfield."
"Yet I could not live alone; so I tried the companionship of mistresses."
"Hiring a mistress is the next worse thing to buying a slave: both are often by nature, and always by position, inferior, and to live familarly, with inferiors is degrading."
To become the successor of these poor girls, he would one day regard me with the same feeling which now in his mind desecrated their memory.
"I heard you come home that night, Jane, though probably you were not aware and I thought of you, or watched for you."
"I wished to see whether you would seek me if i shunned you-but you did not."
You are my sympathy-my better self-my good angel-I am bound to you with a strong attachment."
"I wanted to have you safe before hazarding confidences."
"It would not be wicked to love me."
-"It would to obey you."
"Then you snatch love and innocence from me?"
"I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself."

Mr. Rochester believes that the arranged marriage was a plot to ruin him and get money out of it at the same time. He continueingly goes over how his wife is mad and is seeking pity from Jane and trying to use that as a reason for Jane to stay and love him. When he went to Europe he started a search for a woman worthy to be his wife; being unsuccessful and tired of being lonely he took up some mistresses. He found them inferior and grew tired of them, which wouldn't that happen with Jane because if they got married she would become his mistress. That is what makes Jane not want to stay with him any longer because she does not want to be thrown away. Mr. Rochester starts talking about their past together to manipulate Jane's feelings in an attempt to get her to stay. Jane convinces herself she cannot for if she does she will lose all self-respect and to keep it she would have to live alone.

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but he would not strike; he would only wrestle.
"Your uncle, I'm sorry to say, is now on his sickbed"
"but he implored Mr. Mason to lose no time in taking steps to prevent the false marriage."
but now, I thought.
Jane Eyre, who had been an ardent, expectant woman-almost a bride-was a cold, solitary girl agian; her life was pale, her prospects were desolate.
I must go: that I percieved well.
"One idea only still throbbed lifelike within me-a remembrance of God.
But that I must leave him decidedly, instantly, entirely, is intolerable. I cannot do it."
I forgave him all: yet not in words, not outwardly; only in my heart's core.
"At any rate, there is neither room nor claim for me, sit."
"It is cruel-she cannot help being mad."
"You are to share my solitude. Do you understand?"
"Because, if you won't, I'll try violence."
"If I lived with you as you desire, I should then be your mistress: to say otherwise is sophistical-is false."
"When I left college, I was sent out to Jamaica, to espouse a bride already courted for me."

Mr. Rochester takes Jane and the other gentlemen to see Bertha, who is locked up in the attic. When they are up there Bertha attacks Mr. Rochester but, he wont strike her back he just wrestles her until he can tie her up. Jane locks herself in her room and doesn't even cry, though she feels dead inside and empty like when she was a child. she decides she must leave because she still loves Mr. Rochester and in her tormole she remembers God and does a little prayer. When she talks to Mr. Rochester she tells him she is leaving but he can't get it through his head and keeps insisting that she is leaving with him too be his bride. Jane wont listen and he gets upset and calmly threatens to use violence on her to make her.

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"It was not even that strange woman, Grace Poole."
"Of the foul German spectre-the Vampire."
"Sir, it removed my veil from its guant head, rent it in two parts, and flinging both on the floor, trampled on them."
"and that woman was-must have been-Grace Poole."
"When we have been married a year and a day, I will tell you: but not now."
She seemed the emblem of my past life; and he, I was now to array myself to meet, the dread, but adored, type of unknown future day.
I wanted to see the invisible thing on which, as we went along, he appeared to fastena glance fierce and fell.
"that if any of you know any impediment why ye may not lawfully be jioned together in matrimony, ye may now confess it"
"It simply consists in the existence of a previous marriage. Mr. Rochester has a wife now living."
"I affirm and can prove that on the 20th of October, Edward Fairfax Rochester..was married to my sister, Bertha Antoinetta Mason."
"I will produce him first..Mr. Mason.."
"I have been married, and the woman to whom I was married lives!"
"Bertha Mason is mad; and she came of a mad family-idiots and maniacs through three generations!"

When Mr. Rochester was gone, a woman went into Jane's room at night when she was sleeping. Jane woke and noticed it was not Grace Poole but some other woman that looked very dead and sickly. The woman grabbed Jane's veil and put it on then took it off and ripped it in half. When Mr. Rochester hears this he tells Jane that the woman was Grace Poole and that he will tell her why he keeps her in a year and a day. When the two are on their way to the chappel to get married Mr. Rochester is giving something or someone a nasty look from one of the windows of the house. I believe that the woman was mr. Rochester's wife and she's crazy and that's why he keeps her locked up and he doesn't want to tell Jane until later because by then Jane might have forgotten about it. Turns out I was right, go me!! At the ceremony when the priest is asking the does anyone have a reason these two should not be wed and yadda, yadda this man comes in saying mr. Rochester is already married to his sister and he had proof his brother Mr. Mason (the one who was stabbed earlier in the novel by his sister). After that accusation Mr. Rochester admitts to it and explains that she is crazy and her whole family is nuts.

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"I will not be your English Celine Varens."
"You will give up your governessing slavery at once."
"any other woman would have been melted to marrow at hearing such stanzas crooned in her praise."
"I can keep you in a reasonable check now, and I don't want to be able to do it better if one expedient loses it virtue, another must be devised."
My future husband was becoming to me my whole world..
Mrs. Rochester! She did not exist: she would not be born till tomorrow, some time after eight o' clock a.m.
"Well, I cannot return to the house, I cannot sit by the fireside, while he is abroad in inclement weather; better tire my limbs than strain my heart; I will go forward and meet him."
"...and now I seem to have gathered up a stray lamb in my arms; you wandered out of the fold to seek your shepherd, did you, Jane?"

Jane and Mr. Rochester have already declared their love for each other and are going to get married. Jane still wants to keep her independence and not fully be under Mr. Rochester's power. Mr. Rochester treats her as if she were a delicate doll; his little pet. Jane tries to keep her distance from Mr. Rochester and not summit to him, yet she keeps falling more and more in love with him and is already acting like the obedient little house wife she will become.