Quotation from: Jane Eyre

Written by: Charlotte Bronte


He paused, as the custom is. When is the pause after that sentence
ever broken by reply? Not, perhaps, once in a hundred years. And
the clergyman, who had not lifted his eyes from his book, and had
held his breath but for a moment, was proceeding: his hand was
already stretched towards Mr. Rochester, as his lips unclosed to
ask, "Wilt thou have this woman for thy wedded wife?" --
when a distinct and near voice said -


"The marriage cannot go on: I declare the existence of an impediment."

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