supple member, with smooth fingers, symmetrically turned; a
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looked at it, and saw a gem I had seen a hundred times before.
Again I looked at the face; which was no longer turned from me—
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on the contrary, the bonnet
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head advanced.
“Well, Jane, do you know me?” asked the familiar voice.
“Only take off the red cloak, sir, and then—”
“But the string is in a knot—help me.”
“Break it, sir.”
“There, then—‘Off, ye lendings!’” And Mr. Rochester stepped
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“Now, sir, what a strange idea!”
“But well carried out, eh? Don’t you think so?”
“With the ladies you must have managed well.”
“But not with you?”
“You did not act the character of a gipsy with me.”
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make me talk nonsense. It is scarcely fair, sir.”
“Do you forgive me, Jane?”
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find I have fallen into no great absurdity, I shall try to forgive you;
but it was not right.”
“Oh, you have been very correct—very careful, very sensible.”
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