Quotation from: Jane Eyre

Written by: Charlotte Bronte


"It was a fairy, and come from Elf-land, it said; and its errand
was to make me happy: I must go with it out of the common world to
a lonely place -- such as the moon, for instance -- and it nodded
its head towards her horn, rising over Hay-hill: it told me of
the alabaster cave and silver vale where we might live. I said I
should like to go; but reminded it, as you did me, that I had no
wings to fly.


"'Oh,' returned the fairy, 'that does not signify! Here is a
talisman will remove all difficulties;' and she held out a pretty
gold ring. 'Put it,' she said, 'on the fourth finger of my left
hand, and I am yours, and you are mine; and we shall leave earth,
and make our own heaven yonder.' She nodded again at the moon.
The ring, Adele, is in my breeches-pocket, under the disguise of
a sovereign: but I mean soon to change it to a ring again."

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