📝 您未登录，登录后完成练习可保存成绩、查看最佳记录。
总字符
0
正确字符
0
错误字符
0
错误率
0.00%
耗时(秒)
0
速度 WPM
0
0 / 64
1"Had you ever experience of such a character, sir? Did you ever love such an one?" "I love it now." "But before me: if
2I, indeed, in any respect come up to your difficult standard?" "I never met your likeness. Jane, you please me, and you
3master me--you seem to submit, and I like the sense of pliancy you impart; and while I am twining the soft, silken skein
4round my finger, it sends a thrill up my arm to my heart. I am influenced--conquered; and the influence is sweeter than
5I can express; and the conquest I undergo has a witchery beyond any triumph I can win. Why do you smile, Jane? What does
6that inexplicable, that uncanny turn of countenance mean?" "I was thinking, sir (you will excuse the idea; it was
7involuntary), I was thinking of Hercules and Samson with their charmers--" "You were, you little elfish--" "Hush, sir!
8You don't talk very wisely just now; any more than those gentlemen acted very wisely. However, had they been married,
9they would no doubt by their severity as husbands have made up for their softness as suitors; and so will you, I fear. I
10wonder how you will answer me a year hence, should I ask a favour it does not suit your convenience or pleasure to
11grant." "Ask me something now, Janet,--the least thing: I desire to be entreated--" "Indeed I will, sir; I have my
12petition all ready." "Speak! But if you look up and smile with that countenance, I shall swear concession before I know
13to what, and that will make a fool of me." "Not at all, sir; I ask only this: don't send for the jewels, and don't crown
14me with roses: you might as well put a border of gold lace round that plain pocket handkerchief you have there." "I
15might as well 'gild refined gold.' I know it: your request is granted then--for the time. I will remand the order I
16despatched to my banker. But you have not yet asked for anything; you have prayed a gift to be withdrawn: try again."
17"Well then, sir, have the goodness to gratify my curiosity, which is much piqued on one point." He looked disturbed.
18"What? what?" he said hastily. "Curiosity is a dangerous petition: it is well I have not taken a vow to accord every
19request--" "But there can be no danger in complying with this, sir." "Utter it, Jane: but I wish that instead of a mere
20inquiry into, perhaps, a secret, it was a wish for half my estate." "Now, King Ahasuerus! What do I want with half your
21estate? Do you think I am a Jew-usurer, seeking good investment in land? I would much rather have all your confidence.
22You will not exclude me from your confidence if you admit me to your heart?" "You are welcome to all my confidence that
23is worth having, Jane; but for God's sake, don't desire a useless burden! Don't long for poison--don't turn out a
24downright Eve on my hands!" "Why not, sir? You have just been telling me how much you liked to be conquered, and how
25pleasant over-persuasion is to you. Don't you think I had better take advantage of the confession, and begin and coax
26and entreat--even cry and be sulky if necessary--for the sake of a mere essay of my power?" "I dare you to any such
27experiment. Encroach, presume, and the game is up." "Is it, sir? You soon give in. How stern you look now! Your eyebrows
28have become as thick as my finger, and your forehead resembles what, in some very astonishing poetry, I once saw styled,
29'a blue-piled thunderloft.' That will be your married look, sir, I suppose?" "If that will be your married look, I, as a
30Christian, will soon give up the notion of consorting with a mere sprite or salamander. But what had you to ask,
31thing,--out with it?" "There, you are less than civil now; and I like rudeness a great deal better than flattery. I had
32rather be a thing than an angel. This is what I have to ask,--Why did you take such pains to make me believe you wished
33to marry Miss Ingram?" "Is that all? Thank God it is no worse!" And now he unknit his black brows; looked down, smiling
34at me, and stroked my hair, as if well pleased at seeing a danger averted. "I think I may confess," he continued, "even
35although I should make you a little indignant, Jane--and I have seen what a fire-spirit you can be when you are
36indignant. You glowed in the cool moonlight last night, when you mutinied against fate, and claimed your rank as my
37equal. Janet, by-the-bye, it was you who made me the offer." "Of course I did. But to the point if you please, sir--Miss
38Ingram?" "Well, I feigned courtship of Miss Ingram, because I wished to render you as madly in love with me as I was
39with you; and I knew jealousy would be the best ally I could call in for the furtherance of that end." "Excellent! Now
40you are small--not one whit bigger than the end of my little finger. It was a burning shame and a scandalous disgrace to
41act in that way. Did you think nothing of Miss Ingram's feelings, sir?" "Her feelings are concentrated in one--pride;
42and that needs humbling. Were you jealous, Jane?" "Never mind, Mr. Rochester: it is in no way interesting to you to know
43that. Answer me truly once more. Do you think Miss Ingram will not suffer from your dishonest coquetry? Won't she feel
44forsaken and deserted?" "Impossible!--when I told you how she, on the contrary, deserted me: the idea of my insolvency
45cooled, or rather extinguished, her flame in a moment." "You have a curious, designing mind, Mr. Rochester. I am afraid
46your principles on some points are eccentric." "My principles were never trained, Jane: they may have grown a little
47awry for want of attention." "Once again, seriously; may I enjoy the great good that has been vouchsafed to me, without
48fearing that any one else is suffering the bitter pain I myself felt a while ago?" "That you may, my good little girl:
49there is not another being in the world has the same pure love for me as yourself--for I lay that pleasant unction to my
50soul, Jane, a belief in your affection." I turned my lips to the hand that lay on my shoulder. I loved him very
51much--more than I could trust myself to say--more than words had power to express. "Ask something more," he said
52presently; "it is my delight to be entreated, and to yield." I was again ready with my request. "Communicate your
53intentions to Mrs. Fairfax, sir: she saw me with you last night in the hall, and she was shocked. Give her some
54explanation before I see her again. It pains me to be misjudged by so good a woman." "Go to your room, and put on your
55bonnet," he replied. "I mean you to accompany me to Millcote this morning; and while you prepare for the drive, I will
56enlighten the old lady's understanding. Did she think, Janet, you had given the world for love, and considered it well
57lost?" "I believe she thought I had forgotten my station, and yours, sir." "Station! station!--your station is in my
58heart, and on the necks of those who would insult you, now or hereafter.--Go." I was soon dressed; and when I heard Mr.
59Rochester quit Mrs. Fairfax's parlour, I hurried down to it. The old lady had been reading her morning portion of
60Scripture--the Lesson for the day; her Bible lay open before her, and her spectacles were upon it. Her occupation,
61suspended by Mr. Rochester's announcement, seemed now forgotten: her eyes, fixed on the blank wall opposite, expressed
62the surprise of a quiet mind stirred by unwonted tidings. Seeing me, she roused herself: she made a sort of effort to
63smile, and framed a few words of congratulation; but the smile expired, and the sentence was abandoned unfinished. She
64put up her spectacles, shut the Bible, and pushed her chair back from the table.
🎉 全部完成！共 64 行