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"Whenever, in future, you should chance to fancy Mr. Rochester thinks well of you, take out these two pictures and compare them: say, 'Mr. Rochester might probably win that noble lady's love, if he chose to strive for it; is it likely he would waste a serious thought on this indigent and insignificant plebeian?'"
- Chapter Xxiii
"And so," thought I, "could I with you." I should have said...
- Chapter Xxxii
I am sure it would benefit him to talk a little about this...
- Chapter Xxix
"Mr. Rivers," I said, turning to him, and looking at him, as...
- Chapter Xxxviii
He may be stern; he may be exacting; he may be ambitious...
- Chapter XII
He seemed puzzled to decide what I was; I helped him. "I am...
- Chapter Xxv
Then I repaired to the library to ascertain whether the fire...
- Chapter Xxiii
“Whenever, in future, you should chance to fancy Mr. Rochester thinks well of you, take out these two pictures and compare them: say, ‘Mr. Rochester might probably win that noble lady’s love, if he chose to strive for it; is it likely he would waste a serious thought on this indigent and insignificant plebeian?’”
"Whenever, in future, you should chance to fancy Mr. Rochester thinks well of you, take out these two pictures and compare them: say, 'Mr. Rochester might probably win that noble lady's love, if he chose to strive for it; is it likely he would waste a serious thought on this indigent and insignificant plebeian?'"
"Whenever, in future, you should chance to fancy Mr. Rochester thinks well of you, take out these two picture and compare them: say, 'Mr. Rochester might probably win that noble lady’s love, if he chose to strive for it; is it likely he would waste a serious thought on this indigent and insignificant plebeian?'" (2.1.72-74)
The cinematography is just gorgeous. Ang Lee’s Sense and Sensibility springs to mind when you said that - I absolutely ate up the commentary on that film where he points out even the lines of shrubbery when Marianne walks in the Palmers’ gardens are meant to evoke contrasts between order aka sense, and the wild “brain hedges” aka sensibility.
I pointed out this circumstance to Mrs. Fairfax, who was standing at the window with me— “You said it was not likely they should think of being married,” said I, “but you see Mr. Rochester ...
"Whenever, in future, you should chance to fancy Mr. Rochester thinks well of you, take out these two pictures and compare them: say, 'Mr. Rochester might probably win that noble lady's love, if he chose to strive for it; is it likely he would waste a serious thought on this indigent and insignificant plebeian?'"
