00:00it is not pleasant to dwell upon the details of my destitution after two days
00:28on the moors without food with this feeling of faintness and chill must I lay my head on the
00:36cold drenched ground shall I be an outcast again this night oh some people say there is
00:43enjoyment in looking back on painful experience past I do not the light was yet there shining
00:57dim but constant through the rain
01:00how desolate
01:27how desperate my own position seemed compared with these
01:32they were all delicacy and cultivation I had nowhere seen such faces as theirs
01:41yet beg from them I must or die
01:46what's your business
02:13at this hour may I speak to your mistresses not you what can they do for you night shelter
02:20an outhouse anywhere and a morsel of bread don't shut the door I must the rain's driving in let
02:27me see the young lady indeed I won't you're not what you ought to be move off I fear you've
02:32some ill plans again
02:34oh but I will
02:34not only the anchor of hope but the footing of fortitude was gone
02:51I can but I believe in God let me try to await his will in silence
03:02all men must die who speaks
03:10but all are not condemned to meet a premature doom
03:17yes open quickly
03:25oh come in such a wild night your sisters were uneasy and there's been bad folks about us at
03:38I beg it would not gone yet get up for shame
03:41hush Hanna you did your duty in excluding
03:44let me do mine in admitting her
03:48Mr. St. John
03:49I must examine into this case Hanna
03:56young woman rise
04:09is she ill or only famished? the latter I think warm some milk
04:13what is your name? Jane Elliot where do you live? where are your friends? none I have none
04:43poor pallid wanderer it is as well we took her in
04:51her state of lethargy is due to excessive and protracted fatigue
04:55rather an unusual physiognomy not indicative of vulgarity or degradation
05:01she looks sensible but not at all handsome she's not an uneducated person her accent was quite pure
05:08I imagine she'll recover rapidly enough
05:13she's not an uneducated person her
05:20on the third day I was better
05:23on the fourth I could speak move
05:33did you ever go begging for you came here?
05:36I'm no beggar
05:38any more than yourself or you young ladies
05:40oh I don't understand that you've liked no house and no brass
05:42the wonder of a house and brass by which I suppose you mean money
05:46does not make a beggar
05:47are your book learned?
05:49yes very
05:52what are you going to do with those gooseberries?
05:53make them into pies
05:55oh let me pick them top and ten
05:56may I don't want you to do nought
05:58please I must do something
06:01you'll need a towel at least your muck of your dress
06:03oh you've not been used to servants work I see by your hands
06:12have you ever been to school?
06:14yes I was at a boarding school eight years
06:16eight?
06:17whatever can you keep yourself for then
06:20oh I have
06:22I trust I shall again
06:24but never mind where I've been tell me the name of this house
06:26well some call it Marsh End and some call it Moor House
06:29and the gentleman who lives here?
06:31oh he didn't live here not Mr. St. John
06:34he has his own parish at Morton
06:37he's a parson?
06:38aye don't you
06:40this was his father's house all Mr. Rivers
06:43so his name is Mr. St. John Rivers?
06:45aye and his sisters are Diana and Mary
06:49their father is dead you said?
06:50aye three weeks sin a stroke
06:53and they have no mother
06:55mistress has been dead this many a year
06:57I've lived with the family for 30
07:00I nursed them all three
07:02that proves you must have been an honest and faithful servant
07:05I will say that much for you though you have had the
07:08incivility to call me a beggar
07:09oh your mum forgive me there's so many cheats goes about
07:13but do you wish to turn me from the door
07:15and on such a night as you should not have shut out a dog
07:18oh it were I but I thought more of the children nor myself
07:20they've liked nobody to take care of them but me
07:24I'm like to look sharpish
07:26you don't want to think too hearty of me
07:29no but I do
07:30it's not so much because you refuse me shelter
07:32I might have been an imposter
07:34but just now you made it a species of reproach
07:37that I had no brass and no house
07:40some of the best people that ever lived have been as destitute as I am
07:44and if you're a christian you should not consider poverty a crime
07:47no more I ought
07:48Mr. St. John tells me so too
07:51I see I were wrong
07:57but I've a clear different notion on you now to what I had
08:00you look a right down decent little creature
08:03I forgive you now
08:10I accept your account of yourself
08:12and I shall respect your reluctance to divulge the reasons for your leaving your post as governess
08:16as well as indeed the whereabouts of that employment Miss Elliot
08:21you said your name was Jane Elliot
08:23yes I did
08:25and it is the name I think it expedient to be called at present
08:28but it is not my real name and to hear it sounds strange
08:31your real name you will not give
08:32no
08:34I fear discovery and whatever disclosure might lead to it I avoid
08:38I'm sure you're right
08:40now do brother let her be at peace for a while
08:42I cannot Diana if I am to give the aid this lady requests
08:47you desire to be independent of us
08:49oh yes I do
08:51show me work or how to seek it that is all I ask
08:55then let me go
08:57but till then let me stay here
08:59I dread another essay of the horrors of homeless destitution
09:02indeed you shall stay here
09:04you must
09:04my sisters you see have pleasure in keeping you
09:07as they would in cherishing a wild bird with a broken wing
09:12but I feel more inclination to put you in the way of keeping yourself
09:15but observe my sphere is narrow
09:18I'm but the incumbent of a poor country parish
09:22my help must be of the humblest kind
09:24well she said she's willing to do anything honest she can do
09:28why are you so crusty St. John
09:30some people are inclined to despise the day of small things Diana
09:34oh I wouldn't
09:36I'll be a dressmaker a plain work woman
09:39servant nurse girl if I can do no better
09:41right
09:42if such is your true spirit
09:44I promise to aid you
09:50and had I forgotten Mr. Rochester all this while
09:54not for a moment
09:56his idea was still with me
09:59because it was not a vapor sunshine could disperse
10:01it was a name graven on a tablet
10:06fated to last as long as the marble it inscribed
10:10Diana and Mary became as two sisters to me
10:13our natures dovetailed
10:16the strongest mutual affection was the result
10:20their brother however was another matter
10:31that's what I'm going to do
10:32I'm going to do
10:36Diana Mary
10:37we shall have winbury pie for supper St. John
10:40come through I beg you
10:48why Miss Jay you have picked a quantity
10:51oh Diana and Mary did I
10:54idled by the stream quite right you gather your strength
10:57that
11:00nothing
11:00no
11:03amen
11:05we can yet live
11:06it makes us no worse off than we were before
11:09only it forces rather strongly on the mind
11:11the picture of what might have been had our uncle chosen
11:14and contrast it somewhat too vividly with what is
11:27is anything wrong
11:33a private matter
11:46both sisters seemed struck
11:49the tidings whatever they were seemed more momentous than afflicting
11:54may I know what has occurred
11:57yes of course
11:59our uncle john has died
12:02you may think it's hard-hearted not to be more moved by the death of so near a relation
12:06but we've never known him or seen him
12:09our father and he quarreled long ago
12:11and it was through uncle john's advice that father lost most of his property in a speculation
12:16father always cherished the idea that he would atone by leaving us a competency
12:21but he has not
12:22we're to receive 30 guineas between us to purchase mourning rings
12:25oh i'm sorry
12:29we were of course foolish to hope
12:35fulfill now o lord the desires and petitions of thy servants
12:39as may be most expedient for them
12:42granting in this world knowledge of thy truth
12:46and in the world to come
12:47life everlasting
12:49amen
12:50amen
12:55good night mr
12:56good night mr
13:02will you stay a moment
13:04good night brother
13:05good night brother
13:06good night
13:06good night
13:07good night
13:08you have heard of employment for me
13:09yes
13:10but it is a service of poverty and obscurity
13:14you may even think it degrading
13:17my parish at morton requires a school for girls
13:20and that school requires a mistress
13:22will you take the post
13:23oh yes
13:25i thank you with all my heart
13:27but you comprehend me
13:28it is a village school
13:30your scholars will be poor girls quite unlettered
13:34there is a small cottage also attached to the school two rooms only
13:38it will be a monstrous labor
13:41i understand what i undertake
13:44very well
13:47so be it
14:00i'm gonna be going now miss elliott
14:02oh thank you
14:05home you go then
14:06take your wages
14:10oh thank you ma'am
14:12you pictured our school just like
14:14do you think so
14:15aye ma'am
14:17oh ruth tell mary garrett not to forget the holly she promised for tomorrow
14:21no ma'am
14:22good night
14:22good night ruth
14:29i thought myself happy
14:31had i not made the right choice
14:34shunning temptation
14:36adhering to principle
14:39my labors as a schoolmistress were now rewarded in the village with cordial salutations
14:44i lived amidst
14:46general regard
14:49why then do i find myself
14:51weeping
14:59i cannot stay long
15:01i've only brought a little parcel my sister sent me yesterday
15:05and their letter too it is addressed to you too as well as myself
15:09thank you
15:11i think it's a color box
15:13some pencils and paper
15:15but you must open it
15:20well you're right
15:29it is most welcome
15:32i hear nothing but praise of you on all sides in the village
15:35your pupils progress has been remarkable
15:38do you now begin to enjoy a sense of tranquility jane
15:41i do not repine
15:42i do not repine
15:43nor look back
15:46i feel my solitude occasionally
15:49once the day's work is done
15:50of course
15:51it is hard to control the workings of inclination and turn the bent of nature
15:59but it may be done
16:01i know from experience
16:02a year ago i was myself intensely miserable because i thought i'd made a mistake in entering the ministry
16:09its uniform duties wearied me to death
16:12i burned for the more active life of the world for the destiny of an artist author
16:16orator politician anything rather than a priest yes
16:20a soldier even
16:24but god all the while had given me an errand to bear which afar i needed all the skills and
16:30strengths of soldiers statesmen and orator
16:33for all these center in the good missionary
16:36and so i resolved to be
16:38from that moment all doubts cleared the fetters dissolved i had bent my nature to the will of god
16:46so may you jane
16:50i wonder
16:55you still have not said why you brave the snow to come
16:57i grew tired of my mute books and empty room
17:01besides since yesterday i have experienced the excitement of a person to whom a tale has been
17:05half told i'm impatient to hear the sequel
17:08oh i wish diane and mary could come and live with you
17:10they that are poor must work
17:12have you heard from them
17:13not since the letter i brought you last week
17:15and your own arrangements with the missionary society
17:18you've not been summoned away sooner than expected
17:21no would that i had
17:23but such a chance is too good to befall me
17:24no i spoke of a tale half told
17:30let me assume the part of narrator though i must warn you the story may sound somewhat hackneyed in your ears
17:3620 years ago a poor curate fell in love with a rich man's daughter and she with him
17:42they married the girl's family at once disowned her
17:46within two years the rash pair were dead
17:49i have seen their grave
17:51they left a daughter mr rivers
17:53charity received her carried the friendless thing to the house of its rich maternal relations
17:57to be reared by an aunt-in-law
17:59i come to names now
18:01she was called mrs reed of gateshead
18:04do not trouble yourself to tell me the rest
18:06after 10 years mrs reed transferred this orphan to lowwood school
18:10where you so long resided
18:12finally she left to be a governess
18:15as you did
18:16to undertake the education of the ward of a certain mr rochester
18:20mr rivers i do not wish to hear more
18:22i must insist
18:24of mr rochester's character i know nothing but the fact that he proposed honorable marriage to this young girl
18:30and at the very altar she discovered he had a wife yet alive
18:34though a lunatic
18:36what his subsequent conduct and proposals were i do not know but the governess fled
18:42and every research after her has so far been in vain
18:45yet that she should be found has become a matter of urgency
18:47why
18:50do you have news of mr rochester how is he where is he
18:53what's he doing is he where you should rather ask the name of the governess
18:58and the nature of the event which requires her appearance
19:00you know nothing of mr rochester no more than i have imparted
19:04oh and that i learned from the letter of a solicitor a mr briggs
19:08his informant was a lady alice fairfax briggs wrote to me of a jane eyre
19:14i knew a jane elliott
19:19you will
19:20i hope
19:22forgive me
19:23this caught my eye the last time i called
19:27you must have written your true name in an idle moment
19:31yes
19:32i must have
19:33you own the name and renounce the aliens
19:35oh of course
19:37but did no one go to thornfield
19:39you forget essential points in pursuing trifles
19:41you do not ask why mr briggs sought after you
19:44well what did he want
19:45merely to tell you that your uncle mr heir of madeira is dead
19:50that he has left you all his property and that you are now rich
19:54i
19:55but i cannot be
19:56yes rich quite in errors
20:00it is a fine thing to be lifted in a moment from poverty to wealth
20:05but it is not a matter one can comprehend all at once
20:09still you do not ask how much you are worth
20:12how much
20:14nothing much to speak of
20:16a trifling
20:17twenty thousand pounds
20:22well if you were a murderess discovered you could scarcely look more aghast
20:26but it is a large sum
20:29don't you think there's been a mistake perhaps you read the figures wrong it is
20:32written in words not figures 20 000 well i must leave you to your sorrows
20:40wait
20:42puzzles me why this solicitor should write to you
20:46the clergy are often appealed to about odd matters
20:49no that does not satisfy me
20:52another time it is late
20:53no tonight
20:54i should rather not
20:55but you shall
20:57you must
20:57guess
21:01very well
21:03it is simple enough
21:06you are not perhaps aware that i am your namesake
21:09that i was christened
21:11singin air rivers
21:14no
21:15in an instant
21:16by instinct i knew how the matter stood
21:19air was your mother's name
21:20yes it was she had two brothers
21:22one my father
21:23the other my uncle of madeira
21:25you have guessed correctly
21:27but then
21:28you and diane and mary are my cousins
21:30we are cousins yes
21:32now
21:34now i have found wealth indeed
21:37wealth to the heart
21:40i'm glad
21:41did i not say you neglected essentials to chase trifles
21:44you were serious a moment ago when i told you that you had got a fortune now for a matter of no
21:48moment you are excited
21:50what can you mean
21:52oh it may be of no importance to you you have sisters and do not care for a cousin
21:57but i had nobody and now three relations
22:01or two if you do not choose to be counted or born into my world
22:05full grown
22:07oh i say again i am glad
22:09have i not said you are gotten too much by the heart's affections jane
22:16oh i am
22:17i confess it so much so that i
22:21well you must write to diane and mary and tell them to come home directly
22:24i intend to benefit them with five thousand pounds a piece
22:28and you also jane you really must tranquilize your feelings
22:32but why
22:33you cannot veil to see that twenty thousand pounds
22:36divided equally between the four of us gives five thousand each
22:39no this is acting on first impulses
22:41yes
22:43and it is also just
22:45our uncle
22:47our uncle should have done what i propose
22:51three morning wings
22:52possibly but he did not therefore no division is necessary and you may with a clear conscience
22:57consider the entire fortune absolutely your own
23:00oh but i could not
23:02and i shall not
23:03god rest you mary gentlemen let nothing you dismay remember christ our savior was born on christmas
23:21my insistence was rewarded moorehouse refurbished the legacy divided justly immutably
23:28even our lawyers smiled to see natural justice performed it was a time of holiday and we were all content
23:39save st john he had another master to serve
23:44his was the ambition of the high master spirit which aims to fill a place in the first rank
23:49of those who are redeemed from earth
23:53jane
23:54what are you doing learning german as well as i'm able will you help me study hindustani
24:03you're not in earnest it will be a great service
24:07i would have asked my sisters but i have observed in you a greater capacity for application
24:15will you do me and god this favor
24:19jane may i interrupt this lesson it is important of course
24:32i leave for india in six weeks god will protect you you have undertaken his work yes
24:40there is my glory and joy i am the servant of an infallible master
24:45it seems strange to me that all around me do not burn to enlist under the same banner
24:52all have not your powers though it would be folly for the feeble to attempt to march with the strong
24:57i do not speak to the feeble jane you are not feeble
25:02i neither in spirit nor body jane
25:06come with me to india come as my helpmate and fellow laborer it was as if i heard a summons from
25:15heaven but i was no apostle oh sir have some mercy god intended you for a missionary's wife
25:22it is not personal but mental adornments he has given you you were formed for a labor not for love
25:28a missionary's wife you must shall be i claim you not for my pleasure but for my sovereign service
25:34i am not fitted for it i have no vocation who is fit for the work none yet we are chosen i know
25:42nothing of a missionary life i've never studied missionary labels then i can help you jane i can
25:46set your task from hour to hour where are my powers for such an undertaking i do not feel them
25:52you do not persuade me to attempt what i cannot perform you can have i not observed you in the
26:00village school you performed well a labor uncongenial to your inclinations in the calm with which you
26:05learnt of your inheritance i read of a mind clear of the vice of demus lucre has no undue power over you
26:12in the resolute readiness which you cut your wealth into four shares
26:16i recognized a soul that reveled in the flame and excitement of sacrifice
26:20jane you are docile diligent courageous very gentle and very heroic
26:30cease to mistrust yourself i trust you unreservedly as a conductress of indian schools and a helper among
26:39indian women your assistance will be to me invaluable my iron shroud contracted round me
26:45i could do what he wanted if life was spared me he would never love me but oh he'd approve me i would
26:56show him such energies resources he had never suspected i possessed your answer jane but marriage to him
27:04would be a monstrous martyrdom of half my nature okay i am ready to go with you to india if i may go
27:14free as a sister to you that cannot be i want a wife the sole helpmate i can influence efficiently
27:20in life and retain absolutely till death seek one elsewhere than in me singe and seek one
27:26fitted to you oh i will go with you as a missionary but not as a wife do you think god will be satisfied
27:32with half a sacrifice it is the cause of god i advocate i cannot accept on his behalf divided
27:37allegiance it must be entire i will give my heart to god you do not want it jane we must be married
27:48there is no other way and undoubtedly enough of love would follow upon marriage to render the union
27:52right even in your eyes i scorn your idea of love it is account of each sentiment you offer
28:00and yes singe and i scorn you when you offer it
28:02i scarcely expected such an answer i think i have done and uttered nothing to deserve scorn
28:13forgive my words but it is your own fault you have introduced a topic in which our natures are at
28:19variance dear cousin abandon your scheme of marriage no it is long cherished
28:26but i shall urge you no further at present reflect and consider well
28:42mistake
28:51who is it diane
28:55oh come in
29:07jane you must tell me what business you and my brother have on hand
29:11so agitated so pale I wish he loved you Jane does he not one whit then why does
29:24he follow you with his eyes and get you so frequently alone with him both Mary
29:29and I had concluded that he wished you to marry him oh he has asked me to be his
29:33wife or rather fitting fellow laborer in his Indian toils he wishes you to go to
29:40India yes you would not live three months in India you've not consented I have
29:50refused to marry and consequently displeased him deeply I offer to
29:58accompany him as a sister it was fantastic folly to do so Jane but he is so good so
30:05noble I cannot be insensitive to his virtues he would urge you to
30:09impossibilities and you would force yourself to perform them I'm astonished
30:14you even found courage to refuse his hand you do not love him Jane not as a
30:20husband and yet if forced to be his wife I can imagine the possibility of conceiving an
30:27inevitable strange torturing kind of love for him but he would not want me to
30:33love him in that case your lot would become unspeakably wretched he has told me I'm
30:38formed for labor not for love if true it follows I'm not formed for marriage your
30:46brother is good and great Diana but he forgets pitilessly the feelings and claims
30:52of those less exalted than himself he that overcometh shall inherit all things and I
31:01will be his God and he shall be my son but the fearful the unbelieving shall have
31:09their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone which is the second death
31:16henceforth I knew what fate St. John feared for me had not Mr. Brocklehurst when I was ten feared the same
31:23good night
31:31I wish you a pleasant journey to Cambridge I shall return in a fortnight Jane that
31:37space is yet left to you may God give you the strength to choose the path of
31:42rightful duty to do all things to the glory of God he spoke earnestly mildly oh I was
31:52tempted to cease struggling to rush down the torrent of his will into the gulf of
31:58his existence and there lose my own could you decide now I were but certain were I
32:06convinced it is God's will I should marry you I could vow to do so here now come
32:12afterwards what would my prayers are heard
32:17Jane you long to do what is right do it you can you must oh God show me the path
32:29Jane Jane Jane I'm coming wait for me where are you where I will come I will that voice was not superstition
32:58but the work of nature she was roused and did no miracle but her best
33:05Jane do not question me cousin I too have a master to serve
33:14once more on the road to Thornfield I felt like a messenger pigeon returning home I recall that voice I heard that inward sensation I'd experienced whence had it come it seemed in me not in the external world was it a mere nervous impression a delusion that I had come it seemed in me not in the external world was it a mere nervous impression a delusion that I had come it seemed in me not in the external world
33:41was it a mere nervous impression a delusion if it were then I should find my master either gone
33:48or still at thornfield hall and who besides him his lunatic wife oh god I'll have lost my labor
33:55oh god I'll have lost my labor return to the inn ask information there no I must see the hall
34:05I'll see the hall
34:12oh god
34:26now
34:27the hall
34:28O không
34:29t axis
34:30out
34:31too late mr rochester is he dead i meant the present gentleman mr edward's father ma'am
34:40the present mr edward rochester's alive well in a way of speaking i thought what way
34:46what way oh you being a stranger you won't have heard that all's quite a ruin burned to the
34:55ground last autumn at dead of night i witnessed the farmers then mass of flames and was it his
35:01how did the fire originate it was guess ma'am oh yes there was a lady a lunatic kept at the hall
35:09they guessed it was she but a queer thing happened about a year ago there was a governess at the hall
35:15and mr rochester fell in love with this government but the fire yeah i am coming to that see mr
35:20rochester fell in love with his governess he set store on her above everything though number dim
35:26thought her handsome small plain little thing not more than 20 and mr rochester rising 40.
35:33but the fire was it suspected the lunatic oh yes ma'am quite certain you see she was mr rochester's
35:40wife though all thought him a bachelor don't come out when he attempted to marry this governess please
35:45i must know what you mean when you say mr rochester's alive in a way of speaking was
35:51he hurt in the fire was he stone blinded ma'am blinded ah and his left arm remained he tried to
35:59rescue the mad woman climbed up into the attics when all was burning but she eluded him went up onto the
36:04battlements saw her standing there against the flames he begged her to come down he called to her
36:13her but she gave a spring and the next moment she lay smashed on the paving below dead as dead as
36:21the stones on which her brains and blood were scattered it was frightful oh god see it was mr
36:28rochester's courage and is he now abroad oh no ma'am no no he's at fern dean manor house some 30 mile
36:35away desolate spot quite broken down they say he is
37:05his form was of the same strong and stalwart contour
37:21a year's face could not quail or blight its vigorous prime
37:26yet he looked desperate brooding in his blind ferocity
37:31where was his daring stride now
37:46let me alone
38:01leah
38:05how are you leah is it really you miss yes
38:09and how are you john nicely thank you miss they searched far and wide for you miss after fire
38:14you heard about the fire at thornfield oh yes the landlord of the georgate milk had informed me and
38:20of mr rochester's accident yes oh john could you go down to the turnpike house i left my trunk there
38:27of course miss could you arrange for me to stay the night clear i've traveled far i think so miss
38:35oh excuse me when you go in tell mr rochester a person wishes to speak to him but
38:44do not give my name i don't think he'll see you miss he refuses anybody
38:48it was his kindness blinded him so i believe
38:58and kindness my kindness would give him eyes again
39:02you're to send in your name and your business miss who is that what he ran for
39:09Leah yes miss he always has candles although he is blind give me the tray
39:17what is it Leah is it you Leah's in the kitchen who is it what is it who
39:41speaks Pilate knows me and John and Leah I only came this evening thank God what
39:49delusion has come over me what sweet man neither where is the speaker oh is it
39:56only a voice oh God I cannot see but I must feel or my heart will stop and my
40:03brain burst whoever whatever you are be perceptible to
40:08touch her I cannot live yes her very fingers must be more of her
40:18is it Jane this is her shape and size and this her voice she is all here her heart
40:26too Jane Eyre Jane Eyre yes I've come back to you I found you out in truth in the flesh
40:37my living Jane you touch me you hold me sir I'm not cold like a corpse nor vacant like
40:44air am I my living darling no I cannot be so blessed it's a dream such as I've had when I've kissed her
40:55as that I always awoke and found her gone gentle soft dream you will fly too but kiss me before you go Jane
41:10it's a dream such as I've had it is you you're not dead in some ditch under some stream nor a pining outcast
41:27amongst strangers no sir I'm an independent woman what do you mean my uncle in Madeira left me five thousand pounds
41:37ah this is practical this is real I should never dream that besides it's that peculiar voice of hers
41:48so animating and piquant it cheers my withered heart and you're an independent woman a rich woman I am my
41:59own mistress I can choose to stay with you if I wish do you blind lame it are like me if you do not
42:08object oh I will be your neighbor your nurse your housekeeper your had I too rashly overleaped
42:16conventionalities I'd made the proposal from the idea that he wished and would ask me to be his wife
42:21perhaps I had played the fool unwittingly no don't believe me I've touched you and heard you I cannot
42:31give up these joys I will stay I have said to be my nurse you're young you must marry someday I do not
42:41care about being married you should care Janet if I were as I once was I try and make you care
42:47but a sightless block I took fresh courage seeing now where the difficulty lay it's time someone undertook to
42:59re-humanize you you look like Nabuchnesa in the fields your hair remind me of eagles feathers your nails have grown
43:09like birds claws I've not yet noticed on this arm I have neither hand nor nails a mere stump it is a pity to see it
43:17pity to see your eyes and scar on your forehead
43:22and the worst of it is one is in danger of making too much of you and
43:29loving you too well for all that
43:32now I must leave you and make a fire
43:36like the candles
43:38can you tell when there's a good fire
43:42yes I see a glow a red haze
43:45and the candles
43:47very dimly each a luminous cloud
43:54can you see me
43:56no my elf
43:58I'm only thankful to hear you
44:00and touch you
44:02when do you take supper
44:05I never take supper
44:06oh you shall tonight
44:08I'm hungry
44:09so are you I dare say only
44:11you forget
44:13who the deuce have you been with Jane
44:26with good people sir
44:28far better than you
44:30hmm they've not diminished your impudence
44:32who were they
44:34oh you shall not get it out of me tonight
44:36you must wait till tomorrow
44:37to leave my tale half told
44:40will be a sort of security
44:42that I shall appear at your breakfast table to finish it
44:44and I shall bring you not a glass of water
44:46but an egg at least
44:48to say nothing of fried ham
44:50you changeling
44:51fairy born and human bred
44:54now I shall leave you
44:58I've been traveling and I'm tired
45:01Jane one word more
45:02were there any ladies in the house where you've been
45:06good night
45:08this Parson Rivers is your cousin
45:15yes
45:15you like him
45:18he's a very good man
45:21a good man
45:27hmm by that do you mean a respectable well-conducted man of 50
45:31or 60
45:32St. John is but 29 sir
45:34but his brain rather soft
45:38you shrug your shoulders to hear him talk
45:41he talks little
45:42but ever to the point
45:44he is thoroughly educated
45:46but to priggish
45:48parsonical
45:49sort of a raw curate
45:51half strangled by his white neckcloth
45:53he dresses well
45:54he is a handsome man tall with fair hair
45:58blue eyes
45:59and a Grecian profile
46:01damn him
46:02perhaps you'd rather not sit so close to me Miss Eyre
46:07why not Mr. Rochester
46:09the picture you've just drawn is suggestive of a rather too overwhelming contrast
46:13your words have delineated very prettily
46:15a graceful Apollo
46:16your eyes dwell on a Vulcan
46:18a real blacksmith
46:20blind and maimed into the bargain
46:22I had not thought of it before
46:24but
46:24you are rather like Vulcan sir
46:27hmm
46:28after you'd returned to reside with your newly discovered cousins
46:33did Rivers spend much time there?
46:35oh yes
46:36the back parlour was both his study and ours
46:39what did you study?
46:40German
46:41and a little Hindustani
46:43Hindustani?
46:46what use could that language be to you?
46:48he wished me to go with him to India sir
46:49ah
46:51the root of the matter
46:52he wanted you to marry him
46:54he asked me to marry him
46:55then you must go
46:57to the husband you've chosen
46:59this St. John Rivers
47:00oh but he is not my husband
47:02nor ever will be
47:04oh he's good and great but
47:06severe as an iceberg
47:08must I leave you sir
47:10to go to him?
47:12I only wanted to tease you a little
47:14to make you less sad
47:15but my scarred vision
47:17my crippled strength
47:18they are honourable scars sir
47:20your sacrifice is legendary
47:23none but speaks well of you
47:24possibly
47:25and the result is I'm no better than the old
47:28lightning struck chestnut tree at Thornfield
47:30what right would that ruin have to bid a budding woodbine
47:37cover its decay with freshness
47:38you are no ruin sir
47:40oh Thornfield maybe
47:43I have seen it
47:44but you are not
47:45friends will ever lean towards you
47:47but I want
47:47a wife Jane
47:51do you sir?
47:52yes
47:53is it news to you?
47:55well of course you've said nothing of it before
47:57is it
47:58unwelcome news?
47:59that depends
48:00on your choice
48:02which you shall make for me
48:04I will abide by your decision
48:06choose then sir
48:07her who loves you best
48:09oh
48:10I will choose
48:12her I love best
48:14Jane
48:16will you marry me?
48:18yes sir
48:19a cripple
48:20twenty years older than yourself
48:21whom you'll have to lead about by the hand?
48:23oh yes sir
48:24truly Jane?
48:26most truly
48:26oh my darling
48:28God bless you
48:30and reward you
48:31to be your wife is for me
48:34to be as happy as I can be on earth
48:37because you delight in sacrifice
48:39but what do I sacrifice?
48:42famine for food
48:43expectation for content
48:45Jane suits me
48:48do I suit her?
48:52to the finest fibre of my nature sir
48:55I married him
49:04I hold myself supremely blessed
49:08because I am my husband's life as fully as he is mine
49:12Mr. Rochester continued blind
49:16the first two years of our union
49:17but gradually
49:18the obscurity clouding his left eye
49:21cleared
49:21the sky is no longer a blank to him
49:25the earth no longer a void
49:28God has tempered judgment
49:31with mercy
49:32I am so glad you are doing this
49:36I am so glad you are listening to this
49:38I am so glad you are listening to this
49:40I am so glad you are listening to this
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