Quotation from: Jane Eyre

Written by: Charlotte Bronte


Mary had a milder and more open countenance than Blanche; softer
features too, and a skin some shades fairer (Miss Ingram was dark
as a Spaniard) -- but Mary was deficient in life: her face lacked
expression, her eye lustre; she had nothing to say, and having once
taken her seat, remained fixed like a statue in its niche. The
sisters were both attired in spotless white.


And did I now think Miss Ingram such a choice as Mr. Rochester
would be likely to make? I could not tell -- I did not know his
taste in female beauty. If he liked the majestic, she was the
very type of majesty: then she was accomplished, sprightly. Most
gentlemen would admire her, I thought; and that he DID admire her,
I already seemed to have obtained proof: to remove the last shade
of doubt, it remained but to see them together.

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