He prizes me as a soldier would a good weapon, and that is all. {...} Can I receive from him the bridal ring, endure all the forms of love {...} and know that the spirit was quite absent? Can I bear the consciousness that every endearment he bestows is a sacrifice made on principle? No: such a martyrdom would be monstrous. I will never undergo it.
( Charlotte Brontë )
[ Jane Eyre ]
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