Quotation from: Jane Eyre

Written by: Charlotte Bronte


The Eastern allusion bit me again. "I'll not stand you an inch in
the stead of a seraglio," I said; "so don't consider me an equivalent
for one. If you have a fancy for anything in that line, away with
you, sir, to the bazaars of Stamboul without delay, and lay out
in extensive slave-purchases some of that spare cash you seem at
a loss to spend satisfactorily here."


"And what will you do, Janet, while I am bargaining for so many
tons of flesh and such an assortment of black eyes?"

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