Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë Chapter 17 Page 47

more so; for you have them both to keep in addition.”

I feared — or should I say, hoped?

— the allusion to me would make Mr. Rochester glance my way; and I involuntarily shrank farther into the shade: but he never turned his eyes.

“I have not considered the subject,” said he indifferently, looking straight before him.

“No, you men never do consider economy and common sense. You should hear mama on the chapter of governesses: Mary and I have had, I should think, a dozen at least in our day; half of them detestable and the rest ridiculous, and all incubi — were they not, mama?”

“Did you speak, my own?”