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Alice, as he used to do. Now, can you tell me whether it is
actually true that Mr. Rochester has asked you to marry him? Don't
laugh at me. But I really thought he came in here five minutes ago,
and said that in a month you would be his wife.'
'He has said the same thing to me,' I replied.
'He has! Do you believe him? Have you accepted him?'
'Yes.'
She looked at me bewildered.
'I could never have thought it. He is a proud man: all the
Rochesters were proud: and his father, at least, liked money. He, too,
has always been called careful. He means to marry you?'
'He tells me so.'
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She surveyed my whole person: in her eyes I read that they had
there found no charm powerful enough to solve the enigma.
'It passes me!' she continued; 'but no doubt it is true since you
say so. How it will answer, I cannot tell: I really don't know.
Equality of position and fortune is often advisable in such cases; and
there are twenty years of difference in your ages. He might almost
be your father.'
'No, indeed, Mrs. Fairfax!' exclaimed I, nettled; 'he is nothing
like my father! No one, who saw us together, would suppose it for an
instant. Mr. Rochester looks as young, and is as young, as some men at animal painting