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CHARLOTTE BRONTE ~ A FREE HUMAN BEING WANTING TO LEAVE

20 February 2012

Rochester: “Jane, be still; don’t struggle so like a wild, frantic bird, that is rending its own plumage in its desperation.”

Jane: “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being, with an independent will; which I now exert to leave you.”

Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre

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