Rochester
11 – First Impressions
‘he was always kind to me and gave me pretty dresses’
‘he has a gentleman’s tastes and habits’
‘his character is unimpeachable’
‘I dare say he is clever, but I never had much conversation with him’
‘Mr Rochester’s visits here are rare... always sudden and unexpected’
‘a just and liberal landlord’
12
‘considerable breadth of chest. He had a dark face, with stern features and
a heavy brow; his eyes and gathered eyebrows looked ireful and thwarted
just now’
‘The new face, too, was like a new picture introduced to the gallery of
memory’
‘dark, strong, and stern’
13
‘I knew my traveller’
‘broad and jetty eyebrows; his square forehead, made squarer by the
horizontal sweep of his black hair’
‘he searched my face with eyes that were dark, irate, and piercing’
‘excuse my tone of command’
‘strikingly peculiar’
‘very changeful and abrupt’
14
‘deep and rather sarcastic voice’
‘a smile on his lips, and his eyes sparkled’
‘great, dark eyes; for he had great, dark eyes, and very fine eyes’
‘he lifted up the sable waves of hair which lay horizontally over his brow’
‘unconscious pride in his port; so much ease in his demeanour’
‘with a single hasty glance seemed to dive into my eyes’
‘masterful, abrupt, perhaps exacting’
‘I have plenty of faults of my own: I know it’
16
‘I both wished and feared to see Mr Rochester on the day which followed
this sleepless night’
‘I wanted to hear his voice again, yet feared to meet his eye’
‘bold, vindictive, and haughty’
17
‘my master’s colourless, olive face, square, massive brow, broad and jetty
eyebrows, deep eyes, strong features, firm, grim mouth’
‘he made me love him’
11 – First Impressions
‘he was always kind to me and gave me pretty dresses’
‘he has a gentleman’s tastes and habits’
‘his character is unimpeachable’
‘I dare say he is clever, but I never had much conversation with him’
‘Mr Rochester’s visits here are rare... always sudden and unexpected’
‘a just and liberal landlord’
12
‘considerable breadth of chest. He had a dark face, with stern features and
a heavy brow; his eyes and gathered eyebrows looked ireful and thwarted
just now’
‘The new face, too, was like a new picture introduced to the gallery of
memory’
‘dark, strong, and stern’
13
‘I knew my traveller’
‘broad and jetty eyebrows; his square forehead, made squarer by the
horizontal sweep of his black hair’
‘he searched my face with eyes that were dark, irate, and piercing’
‘excuse my tone of command’
‘strikingly peculiar’
‘very changeful and abrupt’
14
‘deep and rather sarcastic voice’
‘a smile on his lips, and his eyes sparkled’
‘great, dark eyes; for he had great, dark eyes, and very fine eyes’
‘he lifted up the sable waves of hair which lay horizontally over his brow’
‘unconscious pride in his port; so much ease in his demeanour’
‘with a single hasty glance seemed to dive into my eyes’
‘masterful, abrupt, perhaps exacting’
‘I have plenty of faults of my own: I know it’
16
‘I both wished and feared to see Mr Rochester on the day which followed
this sleepless night’
‘I wanted to hear his voice again, yet feared to meet his eye’
‘bold, vindictive, and haughty’
17
‘my master’s colourless, olive face, square, massive brow, broad and jetty
eyebrows, deep eyes, strong features, firm, grim mouth’
‘he made me love him’
