...secret of the former (or present) mad wife is revealed, and the ceremony, of course, is stopped. " I have now been married ten years. I know what it...love best on earth. I hold myself supremely blest beyond what language can express; because I am my husband's life as fully as he is mine. No woman was...

...brief glance at the fortunes of those whose tames have most frequently recurred in this larrative, and I have done. I have now been married ten years....know what it is to live entirely for and with what I ove best on earth. I hold myself supremely lessed — blessed beyond what language can exress ; because...

...freedom, though. It is swept away almost immediately by the ideology of love that floods the last chapter. I have now been married ten years. I know what it...what I love best on earth. I hold myself supremely blest—blest beyond what language can express; because I am my husband's life as fully as he is mine....

...Übertragung der letzten Worte an St. John durch die Erzählerin deren ablehnende Haltung gegenüber dem 59 "I have now been married ten years. I know what it...beyond what language can express; because I am my husbands life äs fully äs he is mine. No woman was ever nearer to her male than I am: ever more absolutely...

...CURTAIN. After the bows, JANE steps forward to offer an epilogue to the AUDIENCE.) JANE. Dear friends, I have now been married ten years. I know what it...to live entirely for and with what I love best on this earth. I hold myself extremely blest beyond what language can express. (She holds ROCHESTER's...

...chaprer Jane explicitly desctibes theit mattiage as egalitatian, unlike most: 'I hold myself supremely blest beyond what language can express: because I am my husband's life as fully as he is mine' (ch. 38). The closure of the novel also severely punishes Rochesrer for his acquisition of colonial...

...on me that has made me bold at last" (p. 9). Rebecca has no epithalamium like Jane Eyre's rhapsody: "I have now been married ten years. I know what it...express; because I am my husband's life as fully as he is mine."10 Still, if Rebecca has nothing of what Charlotte Bronte would call love, it exudes worship....

...Jane famously, winding up her story, "I married him," and after ten years of married life she knows "what it is to live entirely for and with what I love best on earth" (498,500). She and "my Edward... are happy," their happiness made even more intense by the happiness...

...vision of the state as "the I that is a we and the we that is an I": 7 I know what it is [Jane writes] to live entirely for and with what I love best on earth.... I am my husband's life as fully as he is mine. No woman was ever nearer to her mate than I am: ever more...

...system, and near enough to permit of my visiting her often, and bringing her home sometimes. I took care she should never want for anything that could...can express; because I am my husband's life as fully is he is mine. No woman was ever nearer to her mate than I am: ever more absolutely bone of his bone...