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"Then you ARE going to be married, sir?"

"Ex-act-ly--pre-cise-ly: with your usual acuteness, you have hit

the nail straight on the head"

"Soon, sir?"

"Very soon, my--that is, Miss Eyre: and you'll remember, Jane, the

first time I, or Rumour, plainly intimated to you that it was my

intention to put my old bachelor's neck into the sacred noose, to

enter into the holy estate of ram to my

bosom, in short (she's an extensive armful: but that's not to the

point--one can't have tooas --listen toyour head to look after moreaway home' I wish to

remind you that it was you who first said to ht, prudence, and

humility which befit your responsible and dependent position--that

in case I ram, both you and little Adele had better

trot forthwith I pass over the sort of slur conveyed in this

suggestion on the character of my beloved; indeed, when you are far

away, Janet, I'll try to forget it: I shall notice only its wisdom;

which is such that I have o

to school; and you, Miss Eyre, et a new situation"