You — you strange — you almost unearthly thing!

Charlotte Bronte
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You — you strange — you almost unearthly thing! — I love as my own flesh. You — poor and obscure, and small and plain as you are — I entreat to accept me as a husband. ✨ Charlotte Bronte (2013). Jane Eyre, p.321, Simon and Schuster
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You — you strange — you almost unearthly thing! — I love as my own flesh. You — poor and obscure, and small and plain as you are — I entreat to accept me as a husband. ✨ Charlotte Bronte (2013). Jane Eyre, p.321, Simon and Schuster

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