Quotation from: Jane Eyre

Written by: Charlotte Bronte


I walked fast through the room: I stopped, half suffocated with
the thoughts that rose faster than I could receive, comprehend,
settle them:- thoughts of what might, could, would, and should be,
and that ere long. I looked at the blank wall: it seemed a sky
thick with ascending stars, -- every one lit me to a purpose or
delight. Those who had saved my life, whom, till this hour, I had
loved barrenly, I could now benefit. They were under a yoke, --
I could free them: they were scattered, -- I could reunite them:
the independence, the affluence which was mine, might be theirs too.
Were we not four? Twenty thousand pounds shared equally would be
five thousand each, justice -- enough and to spare: justice would
be done, -- mutual happiness secured. Now the wealth did not weigh
on me: now it was not a mere bequest of coin, -- it was a legacy
of life, hope, enjoyment.

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