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is a long way to Ireland; Ja; and I am sorry to send my little friend on such weary travels: but if I can’t do better; how is it to be helped? Are you anything akin to me; do you think; Jane?”
I could risk no sort of answer by this time: my heart was still。
“Because;” he said; “I sometimes have a queer feeling with regard to you—especially when you are near me; as now: it is as if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs; tightly and inextricably knotted to a similar string situated in the corresponding quarter of your little frame。 And if that boisterous Channel; and two hundred miles or so of land e broad between us; I am afraid that cord of munion will be snapt; and then I’ve a nervous notion I should take to bleeding inwardly。 As for you;—you’d forget me。”
“That I never should; sir: you know—” Impossible to proceed。
“Jane; do you hear that nightingale singing in the wood? Listen!”
In listening; I sobbed convulsively; for I could repress what I endured no longer; I was obliged to yield; and I was shaken from head to foot with acute distress。 When I did speak; it was only to express an impetuous wish that I had never been born; or never e to Thornfield。
“Because you are sorry to leave it?”
The vehemence of emotion; stirred by grief and love within me; was claiming mastery; and struggling for full sway; and asserting a right to predominate; to overe; to live; rise; and reign at last: yes;—and to speak。
“I grieve to l
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