Charlotte Bronte Quotes

Jane Eyre, Chapter 19. Jane makes this acidic comment to the old gypsy woman fortune teller. The gypsy has been trying to probe Jane about her feelings on Rochester, marriage and Blanche Ingram’s interest in him. Jane makes clear that she has no interest in gossip or having her fortune told by the gypsy (who happens to be Rochester disguised). In the rest of this passage, we learn that Jane feels like she is wrapped in a dream: “I said this rather to myself than to the gipsy, whose strange talk, voice, manner, had by this time wrapped me in a kind of dream. One unexpected sentence came from her lips after another, till I got involved in a web of mystification; and wondered what unseen spirit had been sitting for weeks by my heart watching its workings and taking record of every pulse.”