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Reply clearly.”“I don’t think, sir, you have a right to command me, merelybecause you are older than I, or because you have seen more ofthe world than I have; your claim to superiority depends on theuse you have made of your time and experience.”“Humph! Promptly spoken. But I won’t allow that, seeing thatit would never suit my case, as I have made an indifferent, not toCharlotte Bront. ElecBook ClassicsJane Eyre say a bad, use of both advantages. Leaving superiority out of thequestion, then, you must still agree to receive my orders now andthen, without being piqued or hurt by the tone of command. North Face Soft Shell
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”“And so may you,” I thought. My eye met his as the ideacrossed my mind: he seemed to read the glance, answering as if itsimport had been spoken as well as imagined—“Yes, yes, you are right,” said he; “I have plenty of faults of myown: I know it, and I don’t wish to palliate them, I assure you. Godwot I need not be too severe about others; I have a past existence,a series of deeds, a colour of life to contemplate within my ownbreast, which might well call my sneers and censures from myneighbours to myself. I started, or rather (for like other defaulters,I like to lay half the blame on ill fortune and adversecircumstances) was thrust on to a wrong tack at the age of oneandtwenty, and have never recovered the right course since: but Imight have been very different; I might have been as good asyou—wiser—almost as stainless. I envy you your peace of mind,your clean conscience, your unpolluted memory. Little girl, amemory without blot or contamination must be an exquisitetreasure—an inexhaustible source of pure refreshment: is it not?”“How was your memory when you were eighteen, sir?”Charlotte Bront.