Jane Eyre
by Robert Johanson
(to Rochester)
I grieve to leave Thornfield! I love Thornfield!
I have lived in it a full and delightful life.
I have not been trampled on. I have not been petrified.
I have not been buried with inferior minds, but have talked
face-to-face with a vigorous expanded mind.
Yours, Mr. Rochester, I am so grateful to you for your great
kindness and it strikes me with terror to feel I must be torn from you forever.
It is like looking on
the necessity of death…
I tell you I must go!
Do you think I can stay and become nothing to you?
Do you think I am an automaton? A machine without feelings?
Do you think because I am plain and poor, I am soulless and
heartless?
You think wrong!
If God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I
should have made it as hard for you to leave me as it is now for me to leave
you.
That you can wed one inferior to you- one I know you do not
love and who does not truly love you.
Let me go!
To Ireland; anywhere.
I am no bird. No net ensnares me!
I am a free human being with an independent will which I now
use to leave you.
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context.
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taken, typos may appear. Please let me know if this occurs.
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