MY BRIDE! WHAT BRIDE? I HAVE NO BRIDE!

TO LIVE, FOR ME, JANE, IS TO STAND ON A CRATER-CRUST WHICH MAY CRACK AND SPUE FIRE ANY DAY.
RAIN AND WIND, INDEED! YES, YOU ARE DRIPPING LIKE A MERMAID; PULL MY CLOAK ROUND YOU: BUT I THINK YOU ARE FEVERISH, JANE: BOTH YOUR CHEEK AND HAND ARE BURNING HOT. I ASK AGAIN, IS THERE ANYTHING THE MATTER? Nothing, now; I am neither afraid nor unhappy. THEN YOU HAVE BEEN BOTH? Rather: but I’ll tell you all about it by-and-bye, sir; and I daresay you will only laugh at me for my pains. I’LL LAUGH AT YOU HEARTILY WHEN TO-MORROW IS PAST; TILL THEN I DARE NOT: MY PRIZE IS UNCERTAIN. THIS IS YOU, WHO HAVE BEEN AS SLIPPERY AS AN EEL THIS LAST MONTH, AND AS THORNY AS A BRIAR-ROSE? I COULD NOT LAY A FINGER ANYWHERE BUT I WAS PRICKED; AND NOW I SEEM TO HAVE GATHERED UP A STRAY LAMB IN MY ARMS. YOU WANDERED OUT OF THE FOLD TO SEEK YOUR SHEPHERD, DID YOU, JANE? I wanted you: but don’t boast.  Here we are at Thornfield: now let me get down.

RAIN AND WIND, INDEED! YES, YOU ARE DRIPPING LIKE A MERMAID; PULL MY CLOAK ROUND YOU: BUT I THINK YOU ARE FEVERISH, JANE: BOTH YOUR CHEEK AND HAND ARE BURNING HOT. I ASK AGAIN, IS THERE ANYTHING THE MATTER?

Nothing, now; I am neither afraid nor unhappy.

THEN YOU HAVE BEEN BOTH?

Rather: but I’ll tell you all about it by-and-bye, sir; and I daresay you will only laugh at me for my pains.

I’LL LAUGH AT YOU HEARTILY WHEN TO-MORROW IS PAST; TILL THEN I DARE NOT: MY PRIZE IS UNCERTAIN. THIS IS YOU, WHO HAVE BEEN AS SLIPPERY AS AN EEL THIS LAST MONTH, AND AS THORNY AS A BRIAR-ROSE? I COULD NOT LAY A FINGER ANYWHERE BUT I WAS PRICKED; AND NOW I SEEM TO HAVE GATHERED UP A STRAY LAMB IN MY ARMS. YOU WANDERED OUT OF THE FOLD TO SEEK YOUR SHEPHERD, DID YOU, JANE?

I wanted you: but don’t boast.  Here we are at Thornfield: now let me get down.

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