Quotation from: Jane Eyre

Written by: Charlotte Bronte


Mr. Rochester continued blind the first two years of our union;
perhaps it was that circumstance that drew us so very near -- that
knit us so very close: for I was then his vision, as I am still
his right hand. Literally, I was (what he often called me) the
apple of his eye. He saw nature -- he saw books through me; and
never did I weary of gazing for his behalf, and of putting into
words the effect of field, tree, town, river, cloud, sunbeam -- of
the landscape before us; of the weather round us -- and impressing
by sound on his ear what light could no longer stamp on his eye.
Never did I weary of reading to him; never did I weary of conducting
him where he wished to go: of doing for him what he wished to be
done. And there was a pleasure in my services, most full, most
exquisite, even though sad -- because he claimed these services
without painful shame or damping humiliation. He loved me so truly,
that he knew no reluctance in profiting by my attendance: he felt
I loved him so fondly, that to yield that attendance was to indulge
my sweetest wishes.

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