梦千寻我一见他心思全在他们身上，而我可以瞪着他而不被觉察，我的目光便不由自主地被吸引到了他的脸上。我无法控制我的眼皮，它们硬要张开，眼珠硬要盯着他。我瞧着，这给了我一种极度的快乐——一种宝贵而辛辣的快乐；是纯金，却又夹杂着痛苦的钢尖。像一个渴得快死的人所体会到的欢乐，明知道自己爬进的泉水已经下了毒，却偏要俯身去喝那圣水。
“情人眼里出美人。”说的千真万确。我主人那没有血色的橄榄色脸、方方的大额角、宽阔乌黑的眉毛、深沉的眼睛、粗线条的五官、显得坚毅而严厉的嘴巴——一切都透出活力、决断和意志——按常理并不漂亮，但对我来说远胜于漂亮。它们充溢着一种情趣，一种影响力，足以左右我，使我的感情脱离我的控制，而受制于他。我本无意去爱他。读者知道，我努力从自己内心深处剪除露头的爱的萌芽，而此刻，一旦与他重新谋面，那萌芽又自动复活了，变得碧绿粗壮！他连看都不用看我就使我爱上了他。
我拿他和他的客人做了比较。他的外表焕发着天生的精力和真正的力量，相比之下，林恩兄弟的风流倜傥、英格拉姆勋爵的恬淡文雅——甚至登特上校的英武出众，又算得了什么呢？我对他们的外貌和表情不以为然。但我能想象得出多数旁观者都会称他们英俊迷人、气度不凡，而毫不犹豫地说罗切斯特先生五官粗糙、神态忧郁。我瞧见他们微笑和大笑——都显得微不足道。烛光中所潜藏的生气并不亚于他们的微笑，铃声中所包含的意义也并不逊于他们的大笑。我看见罗切斯特先生微微一笑——他严厉的五官变得柔和了；他的眼神转为明亮而温存，目光犀利而又甜蜜。这会儿，他同路易莎和艾米·艾希顿交谈着，我不解的看着她们从容接受他那对于我似乎透入心肺的目光。我本以为在这种目光下，他们会垂下眼来，脸上会泛起红晕。但我见他们都无动于衷时，心里倒很高兴。“他之于她们并不同于他之于我，”我想，“他不属于她们那类人。我相信他与我同声相应——我确信如此，我觉得同他意气相投——他的表情和动作中的含义，我都明白。虽然地位和财富把我们截然分开，但我的头脑里和心里，我的血液里和神经中，有种使我与他彼此心灵沟通的东西。难道几天前我不是说过，除了从他手中领取薪金，我同他没有关系吗？难道我除了把他看作雇主外，不是不允许自己对他有别的想法吗？这真是亵渎天性！我的每种善良、真实、生机勃勃的情感，都冲动地朝他涌去了。我知道我必须掩饰自己的感情，抑制自己的愿望，牢记住他不会太在乎我。我说我属于他那类人，并不是说我有他那种影响力，那种迷人的魅力，而不过是说我与他有某种共同的志趣与情感罢了。我必须不断提醒自己，我们之间永远横亘着一条鸿沟——不过只要我一息尚存，我就必须爱他。”
Most true is it that “beauty is in the eye of the gazer.” My master’s colourless, olive face, square, massive brow, broad and jetty eyebrows, deep eyes, strong features, firm, grim mouth, —all energy, decision, will,—were not beautiful, according to rule; but they were more than beautiful to me; they were full of an interest, an influence that quite mastered me, —that took my feelings from my own power and fettered them in his. I had not intended to love him; the reader knows I had wrought hard to extirpate from my soul the germs of love there detected; and now, at th first renewed view of him, they spontaneously revived, green and strong! He made me love him without looking at me.
I compared him with his guests. What was the gallant grace of the Lynns, the languid elegance of Lord Ingram, —even the military distinction of Colonel Dent, contrasted with his look of native pith and genuine power? I had no sympathy in their appearance, their expression: yet I could imagine that most observers would call them attractive, handsome, imposing; while they would pronounce Mr. Rochester at once harsh-featured and melancholy-looking. I saw them smile, laugh —it was nothing; the light of the candles had as much soul in it as their smile; the tinkle of the bell as much significance as their laugh. I saw Mr. Rochester smile: —his stern features softened; his eye grew both billiant and gentle, its ray both searching and sweet. He was talking, at the moment, to Louisa and Amy Eshton. I wondered to see them receive with calm that look which seemed to me so penetrating: I expected their eyes to fall, their colour to rise under it; yet I was glad when I found they were in no sense moved. “He is not to them what he is to me,” I thought: “he is not of their kind. I believe he is of mine; —I am sure he is —I feel akin to him—I understand the language of his countenance and movements: though rank and wealth sever us widely, I have something in my brain and heart, in my blood and nerves, that assimilates me mentally to him. Did I say, a few days since, that I had nothing to do with him but to receive my salary at his hands? Did I forbid myself to think of him in any other light than as a paymaster? Blasphemy against nature! Every good, true, vigorous feeling I have gathers impulsively round him. I know I must conceal my sentiments: I must smother hope; I must remember that he cannot care much for me. For when I say that I am of this kind, I do not mean that I have his force to influence, and his spell to attract; I mean only that I have certain tastes and feelings in common with him. I must, then, repeat continually that we are for ever sundered:—and yet, while I breathe and think, I must love him.
夏洛蒂·勃朗特（Charlotte Brontë）
《简·爱》（Jane Eyre）
译者：黄源深｜译林出版社
精彩点评：
1，一看到第二段就知道是简爱了 对罗切斯特的描写太深入人心了
2，家人们，还有这段：“先生，你远远地走在我面前，我使出浑身劲儿要赶上你，一次次奋力叫着你的名字，央求你停下来——但我的行动被束缚着，我的嗓音渐渐的沉下去，变得模糊不清而你，我觉得分分秒秒离我越来越远了。”
