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I laughed at him as he said this. __ am not an angel,_ I asserted; __nd I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me__or you will not get it, any more than I shall get it of you: which I do not at all anticipate.
Charlotte Brontë Jane Eyre
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I laughed at him as he said this. __ am not an angel,_ I asserted; __nd I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, you must neither expect nor exact anything celestial of me__or you will not get it, any more than I shall get it of you: which I do not at all anticipate.

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