I have told you, reader, that I had learnt to love Mr. Rochester: I could not unlove him now, merely because I found that he had ceased to notice me--because I might pass hours in his presence, and he would never once turn his eyes in my direction--because I saw all his attentions appropriated by a great lady, who scorned to touch me with the hem of her robes as she passed; who, if ever her dark and imperious eye fell on me by chance, would withdraw it instantly as from an object too mean to merit observation.
Rochester. Y no podía dejar ahora de amarle, porque no reparase en mí; porque transcurrieran horas sin que sus ojos buscaran los míos; porque sus miradas estuvieran dedicadas exclusivamente a otra mujer; porque, si se fijaba casualmente en mí, se apresuraba a apartar la vista.