Quotation from: Jane Eyre

Written by: Charlotte Bronte


Here was a new stunner -- I had been calculating on four or five
thousand. This news actually took my breath for a moment: Mr.
St. John, whom I had never heard laugh before, laughed now.


"Well," said he, "if you had committed a murder, and I had told
you your crime was discovered, you could scarcely look more aghast."


"It is a large sum -- don't you think there is a mistake?"

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