“Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong!—-I have as much soul as you,—-and full as much heart!…..”, Jane said to her master, Mr, Rochester, when she demonstrated her affection to him but decided to leave him because, she thought, he intended to propose marriage to another pretty woman. That is one of the most striking excerpt from the book to me. Any one can replace those nearly self-deprecating adjectives with other substitutes, like short, old, dull, inhibited, and so on, that quote still stands.

A man or a woman should deeply respect someone else’s true affection to him or her with sincerity, regardless of whether he or she accept it or not. One can decline a heart that truly loves you, and that heart will hurt itself, but won’t hurt the one who treats it respectfully. But if you despise it, laugh at it, or even play around with it, you could live to regret it someday, somehow.

I finished reading the book, by fits and starts, at a stretch over six months. Frankly speaking, it pretty hard to me understanding the contents all. The novel was wriiten one and a half century ago; some words had different meaning and usage from those of today. There is no way to improve my reading comprehension but keep on reading more good works from papers, magazines and books. I am going to read the next one: “A Tale of Two Cities”, and hopefully I could finish it before making a tour to the two cities: Paris and London in coming September.