But as matters really stood, to watch Miss Ingram's efforts at fascinating Mr. Rochester, to witness their repeated failure--herself unconscious that they did fail; vainly fancying that each shaft launched hit the mark, and infatuatedly pluming herself on success, when her pride and self-complacency repelled further and further what she wished to allure--to witness _this_, was to be at once under ceaseless excitation and ruthless restraint.
Pero la realidad era que los esfuerzos de la señorita Ingram para seducir a Mr. Rochester fallaban, aunque ella misma no lo notase, y que, si insistía en sus propósitos, lo hacía estimulada por su orgullo y por su amor propio.