简爱 Jane32 - Chapter 8 Life with Mr. Rochester

　　"Oh, Mr. Rochester, I didn't want to say unkind things about you."

　　"Well, now you can," he said cheerfully. "Now, look at my head. Do you think I am intelligent?"

　　"I think you are extremely intelligent, sir. Would it be rude to ask, are you also good?"

　　"A knife in be back! Well, Miss Eyre, I wanted to be good when I was younger, but life has been hard, so I've become as hard and tough as an old tree. I only have a little goodness left inside." He was looking at me very carefully, and I wondered if he was drunk. "Miss Eyre, you look as if you do not know what to say. I want conversation tonight. It's your turn to speak."

　　He was right--I did not know what to say!