Quotation from: Jane Eyre

Written by: Charlotte Bronte


"With me," said I, "it is fully as much a matter of feeling as
of conscience: I must indulge my feelings; I so seldom have had
an opportunity of doing so. Were you to argue, object, and annoy
me for a year, I could not forego the delicious pleasure of which
I have caught a glimpse -- that of repaying, in part, a mighty
obligation, and winning to myself lifelong friends."


"You think so now," rejoined St. John, "because you do not know
what it is to possess, nor consequently to enjoy wealth: you
cannot form a notion of the importance twenty thousand pounds would
give you; of the place it would enable you to take in society;
of the prospects it would open to you: you cannot -- "

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