“His appearance⁠—I forget what description you gave of his appearance;⁠—a sort of raw curate, half strangled with his white neckcloth, and stilted up on his thick-soled high-lows, eh?”

“ St. John dresses well. He is a handsome man: tall, fair, with blue eyes, and a Grecian profile.”

( Aside. ) “Damn him!”⁠—( To me. ) “Did you like him, Jane?”

“Yes, Mr. Rochester, I liked him: but you asked me that before.”