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1  Mr. Rochester has a wife now living.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
2  Mr. Reed is dead, and his wife cast me off.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXI
3  I say again, I will be your curate, if you like, but never your wife.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
4  As to the new existence, it is all right: you shall yet be my wife: I am not married.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
5  If you were my real sister it would be different: I should take you, and seek no wife.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
6  Through my means, He opens to you a noble career; as my wife only can you enter upon it.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
7  To tell me that I had already a wife is empty mockery: you know now that I had but a hideous demon.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
8  But I really thought he came in here five minutes ago, and said that in a month you would be his wife.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
9  Refuse to be my wife, and you limit yourself for ever to a track of selfish ease and barren obscurity.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
10  I want a wife: the sole helpmeet I can influence efficiently in life, and retain absolutely till death.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
11  With me, then, it seems, you cannot go: but if you are sincere in your offer, I will, while in town, speak to a married missionary, whose wife needs a coadjutor.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
12  That woman, who has so abused your long-suffering, so sullied your name, so outraged your honour, so blighted your youth, is not your wife, nor are you her husband.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
13  She was three days without speaking; but last Tuesday she seemed rather better: she appeared as if she wanted to say something, and kept making signs to my wife and mumbling.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXI
14  I did consider; and still my sense, such as it was, directed me only to the fact that we did not love each other as man and wife should: and therefore it inferred we ought not to marry.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
15  It surprised me when I first discovered that such was his intention: I had thought him a man unlikely to be influenced by motives so commonplace in his choice of a wife; but the longer I considered the position, education, &c.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVIII
16  My conjecture had been correct: the strangers had slipped in before us, and they now stood by the vault of the Rochesters, their backs towards us, viewing through the rails the old time-stained marble tomb, where a kneeling angel guarded the remains of Damer de Rochester, slain at Marston Moor in the time of the civil wars, and of Elizabeth, his wife.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
17  , John and his wife, Leah the housemaid, and Sophie the French nurse, were decent people; but in no respect remarkable; with Sophie I used to talk French, and sometimes I asked her questions about her native country; but she was not of a descriptive or narrative turn, and generally gave such vapid and confused answers as were calculated rather to check than encourage inquiry.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XII
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