But the instrument – the instrument! God, who does the work, ordains the instrument. I have myself – I tell it you without parable – been a worldly, dissipated, restless man; and I believe I have found the instrument of my cure, in –
– Charlotte Bronte
Jane Eyre, Chapter 20. Speaking to Jane, Rochester continues with the deception that he plans to marry Blanche Ingram. He suggests that the marriage will redeem him for the sins of his past life.