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Meantime, let me ask myself one question--Which is better?--To have

surrendered to temptation; listened to passion; le;--but to have sunk down in the silken snare;

fallen asleep on the flowers covering it; wakened in a southern

clist the luxuries of a pleasure villa: to have been now

living in France, Mr Rochester's mistress; delirious with his love

half my time--for he would--oh, yes, he would have loved me well for

a while He DID love ain I

shall never race--for never to any one else shall I seem to possess these

charms He was fond and proud of me--it is what no , and what a? Whether is it better, I ask, to be a slave in a

fool's paradise at Marseilles--fevered with delusive bliss one hour-

-suffocating with the bitterest tears of ree-schoolmistress, free and honest, in a breezy

land?

Yes; I feel now that I was right when I adhered to principle and

law, and scorned and crushed the insane pros of a frenzied

moment God directed uidance!