Quotation from: Jane Eyre

Written by: Charlotte Bronte


He shook his head. "Adopted fraternity will not do in this case.
If you were my real sister it would be different: I should take
you, and seek no wife. But as it is, either our union must be
consecrated and sealed by marriage, or it cannot exist: practical
obstacles oppose themselves to any other plan. Do you not see it,
Jane? Consider a moment -- your strong sense will guide you."


I did consider; and still my sense, such as it was, directed me
only to the fact that we did not love each other as man and wife
should: and therefore it inferred we ought not to marry. I said
so. "St. John," I returned, "I regard you as a brother -- you, me
as a sister: so let us continue."

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