My future husband was becoming to me my whole world; and more than the…

Charlotte Bronte
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My future husband was becoming to me my whole world; and more than the world: almost my hope of heaven. He stood between me and every thought of religion, as an eclipse intervenes between man and the broad sun. I could not, in those days, see God for His creature: of whom I had made an idol. ✨ Jane Eyre ch. 24 (1847)
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