Chapter 29
St. John takes Jane in at Moor House; he is described as classically beautiful but cold as marble.
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Chapter 34
His proposal that Jane accompany him to India as his wife: "God and nature intended you for a missionary's wife... you are formed for labour, not for love." Jane refuses: "If I were to marry you, you would kill me. You are killing me now."
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