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“I never met your likeness. Jane: you please me, and you master me- you seem to submit, and I like the sense of pliancy you impart; and while I am twinning the soft, silken skein around my finger, it sends a thrill up my arm to my heart. I am influenced- conquered; and the influence is sweeter than I can express, the conquest I undergo has a witchery beyond any triumph I can win…”

“Tell me now fairy as you are, can’t you give me a charm, or a philter, or something of that sort to make me handsome man?”
“It would be past the power of magic, sir, and, in thought, I added ‘a loving eye is all the charm needed: to such you are handsome enough, or rather, you’re sternness has a power beyond beauty.’”

“… my eyes were drawn involuntarily to his face: I could not keep their lids under control: they would rise and the irids would fix on him. I looked, and had an acute pleasure in looking,- a precious yet poignant pleasure, pure gold, with a steely point of agony….

“Miss Eyre: remorse is the poison of life.” “Repentance is said to be its cure, sir.”

“Why then should we ever sink overwhelmed with distress, when life is so soon over, and death is so certain an entrance to happiness- to glory?”