Jane Eyre (1973)
Michael Jayston: Edward Rochester
Quotes
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Edward Rochester : A true Janian reply! Good angels be my guard! She comes from the other world: from the abode of people who are dead and tells me so here, alone. If I dared, I'd touch you to see if you were substance or shadow. Truant! Truant! Absent from me a whole month- and forgetting me quite, I'll be sworn!
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Edward Rochester : My bride is here, because my equal is here and my likeness!
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Edward Rochester : So you were waiting for your people when I saw you in the land.
Jane Eyre : For whom sir?
Edward Rochester : For the men in green. It was a proper moonlit evening for them. Did I break through one of your rings that you spread that damned ice on the causeway?
Jane Eyre : The men in green all forsook England a hundred years ago. Not even in Hay Lane or the fields about it would you find a trace of them. I don't think summer, harvest, or winter moon will ever shine on their revels more.
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Jane Eyre : Oh sir, it is past eleven o'clock. I must go.
Edward Rochester : No, stay. I am not here, remember. So we are free.
Jane Eyre : Oh, but Miss Ingram is expecting your return from business this evening.
Edward Rochester : [takes Jane's hand] What if she does?
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Blanche Ingram : [enters the library with a billiards cue] Ah, there you are Signor Eduardo. I insist you play!
Edward Rochester : Uno momento, Donna Bianca.
[gives Jane her purse back]
Blanche Ingram : Surely you can deal with that person later, Mr. Rochester.
Edward Rochester : [turns towards Blanche] I am engaged Miss Ingram. I shall come to you when I'm at liberty.
[Blanche storms off in a huff]
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Edward Rochester : Here, take your wages.
Jane Eyre : But that is fifty pounds, sir! You owe me but fifteen. I have no change.
Edward Rochester : I don't want any change, you know that.
Jane Eyre : I will not take it, sir.
Edward Rochester : Obstinate!
Jane Eyre : Yes.
Edward Rochester : Right. I'd better not give you all at once you may stay away three months. There is ten, is that enough?
Jane Eyre : Plenty, sir. Oh but now you owe me five.
Edward Rochester : Come back for it then, I will be your banker.
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Edward Rochester : Shall you come down after dinner tonight?
Jane Eyre : Oh no sir, I must prepare for the journey.
Edward Rochester : Then we must say goodbye now. For a little while.
Jane Eyre : Yes, I suppose so.
Edward Rochester : And how do people perform that ceremony? Teach me, I'm not quite up to it.
Jane Eyre : They say farewell or any other form they prefer.
Edward Rochester : Then say it.
Jane Eyre : Farewell Mr. Rochester, for the present.
Edward Rochester : And what must I say?
Jane Eyre : The same.
Edward Rochester : Farewell Miss Eyre, for the present. Is that all?
Jane Eyre : Yes.
Edward Rochester : It seems stingy to my notions, and dry and unfriendly. If one shook hands...
[pauses]
Edward Rochester : No, that would not content me either.
[pauses]
Edward Rochester : Farewell Jane.
Jane Eyre : Your back is to the door sir.
Edward Rochester : [Glances behind him at the closed door. Looks on Jane again] So it is.
[Then opens it for Jane and lets her pass]