简爱 Jane71 - Chapter 18 Mr. Rochester’s Story

　　PART THREE - A YOUNG WOMAN AT THORNFIELD

　　CHAPTER EIGHTEEN

　　Mr. Rochester's Story

　　"Well, as you know, he decided to give my older brother everything. This meant I would be poor for the rest of my life, unless I married a girl who had money. Without asking me, my father decided that I should marry Bertha Mason. She was the daughter of my father's rich friend Jonas Mason. I was young and foolish in those days. When I saw Bertha in the West Indies, she was beautiful. I thought I loved her and wanted to marry her. But after the wedding, I learned that Bertha's mother and younger brother were both mad. Bertha would probably become sick like them. Jane, my father knew all of this, but he did not tell me! Soon after our wedding, Bertha began to go mad. I lived with her in other places for four years. By now my father and brother were both dead, so I was rich. But I knew that I was really poor, because I was married to a mad woman, for the rest of my life!"

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