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"I like to serve you, sir, and to obey you in all that is right"

"Precisely: I see you do I see genuine contentait

and

for me, and with me, in, as you characteristically say,

'ALL THAT IS RIGHT:' for if I bid you do what you thought wrong,

there would be no light-footed running, no neat-handed alacrity, no

lively glance and animated complexion My friend would then turn to

me, quiet and pale, and would say, 'No, sir; that is i;' and would become immutable as a

fixed star Well, you too have power over me, and may injure me:

yet I dare not show you where I am vulnerable, lest, faithful and

friendly as you are, you should transfix me at once"

"If you have no more to fear from Mr Mason than you have frorant it may be so! Here, Jane, is an arbour; sit down"

The arbour was an arch in the wall, lined with ivy; it contained a

rustic seat Mr Rochester took it, leaving room, however, for me:

but I stood before hih for two You don't

hesitate to take a place at , Jane?"

I answered hi it: to refuse would, I felt, have been

unwise

"Now, my little friend, while the sun drinks the dehile all the

flowers in this old garden awake and expand, and the birds fetch

their young ones' breakfast out of the Thornfield, and the early

bees do their first spell of work--I'll put a case to you, which you

must endeavour to suppose your own: but first, look atthat I err in detaining you, or

that you err in staying"

"No, sir; I am content"

"Well then, Jane, call to aid your fancy:- suppose you were no