Quotation from: Jane Eyre

Written by: Charlotte Bronte


Thus urged, I began the narrative of my experience for the last
year. I softened considerably what related to the three days of
wandering and starvation, because to have told him all would have
been to inflict unnecessary pain: the little I did say lacerated
his faithful heart deeper than I wished.


I should not have left him thus, he said, without any means of
making my way: I should have told him my intention. I should have
confided in him: he would never have forced me to be his mistress.
Violent as he had seemed in his despair, he, in truth, loved me
far too well and too tenderly to constitute himself my tyrant: he
would have given me half his fortune, without demanding so much as
a kiss in return, rather than I should have flung myself friendless
on the wide world. I had endured, he was certain, more than I had
confessed to him.

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