Quotation from: Jane Eyre

Written by: Charlotte Bronte

(Aside.) "Damn him!" -- (To me.) "Did you like him, Jane?"

"Yes, Mr. Rochester, I liked him: but you asked me that before."

I perceived, of course, the drift of my interlocutor. Jealousy
had got hold of him: she stung him; but the sting was salutary:
it gave him respite from the gnawing fang of melancholy. I would
not, therefore, immediately charm the snake.