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Thornfield. Rivers informs Jane that her uncle, John Eyre, has died and left her his entire fortune. He informs her that John Eyre was also his uncle and that they are cousins. Jane declares that she will divide the inheritance equally among herself and her three cousins. Deeming her intelligent, hard-working, and fit to be his assistant in missionary work in India, Rivers offers to marry her. Jane cannot see herself as his wife, unloved, valued only for use in missionary work. As she struggles against Rivers’s persistence, Jane imagines she hears Rochester calling out to her. She decides to go to Thornfield to determine the state of affairs.
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Blanche, Jane abandons caution, declaring that she has the right to tell him, soul to soul, how devastated she is at the prospect. If she had been gifted with status, she would make it as difficult for him to leave her—equal as they are in spirit. When Rochester asks Jane to marry him, she believes he is mocking her. He convinces her that he is serious, declaring her his equal, and she accepts. He confesses to having used Blanche Ingram to make her jealous so she would fall in love with him. Hoping to bring some small fortune to Rochester upon her marriage, Jane writes a letter to her uncle in Madeira.
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with formalities because of his 20 years of superiority in life experience. She replies that his claim to superiority must depend on his use of his advantages, but she reminds him that she is his paid subordinate. Because he cares that a dependent is comfortable in dependency, however, she agrees to dispense with formalities. When he whines that adversity threw him on the wrong course at 21, turning him desperate then degenerate, she suggests reformation. When he asserts that he has new inspiration, she urges caution. When he says that unheard of circumstances require unheard of rules, she calls it a dangerous maxim.
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Spanish Town, Jamaica, daughter of three insane generations, who he was tricked by the two families to marry for her fortune when he was a young man. When his father and elder brother died, Rochester shut up his insane wife at Thornfield, keeping her a secret, with Grace Poole to care for her. Jane’s letter to her uncle prompted him to send Mason to stop the fraudulent marriage. Jane forgives Rochester for his deceit but leaves Thornfield.
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embezzles funds for food and clothing and children are underfed. Helen Burns mentors her on how to get along and curb her rebellious streak. The school is quarantined in a typhoid epidemic. Conditions improve somewhat after the doctor blames
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