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'Mr. Rochester, I have just discovered the sun is far declined from
its meridian, and Pilot is actually gone home to his dinner. Let me
look at your watch.'
'Fasten it into your girdle, Janet, and keep it henceforward: I
have no use for it.'
'It is nearly four o'clock in the afternoon, sir. Don't you feel
hungry?'
'The third day from this must be our wedding-day, Jane. Never
mind fine clothes and jewels, now: all that is not worth a fillip.'
'The sun has dried up all the rain-drops, sir. The breeze is still:
it is quite hot.'
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'Do you know, Jane, I have your little pearl necklace at this
moment fastened round my bronze scrag under my cravat? I have worn
it since the day I lost my only treasure, as a memento of her.'
'We will go home through the wood: that will be the shadiest way.'
He pursued his own thoughts without heeding me.
'Jane! you think me, I daresay, an irreligious dog: but my heart
swells with gratitude to the beneficent God of this earth just now. He
sees not as man sees, but far clearer: judges not as man judges, but
far more wisely. I did wrong: I would have sullied my innocent flower-
breathed guilt on its purity: the Omnipotent snatched it from me. I,
in my stiff-necked rebellion, almost cursed the dispensation:
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