Jane Eyre – Chapter XXIV (Only Two Pages)
‘No, no, sir! think of other subjects, and speak of other things, and in another strain. Don’t address me as if I were a beauty; I am your plain, Quakerish governess.’ ‘You are a beauty in my eyes, and a beauty just after the desire of my heart,—delicate and aerial.’ ‘Puny and insignificant, you mean. […]
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