第八章Jane受罰結束后,心情低落到極點。就在她又胡思亂想時,Helen帶著溫暖的咖啡麵包來了。Helen耐心開導Jane,以自己開闊的胸襟和超脫的博愛使Jane平靜下來,同時Jane感覺到Helen語氣里有說不出的淡淡的憂傷。隨後,Temple來接她們到自己住處休息,循循善誘,進一步溫暖Jane冰冷猶豫的心。在這裡,兩個女孩子吃了頓入校後最好的晚餐,Jane還看著Helen和Temple高端大氣的思想交流。這一段交流里對Helen的描寫非常精彩,援引過來: The refreshing meal, the brilliant fire, the presence and kindness of her beloved instructress, or, perhaps, more than all these, something in her own unique mind, had roused her powers within her. They woke, they kindled: first, they glowed in the bright tint of her cheek, which till this hour I had never seen but pale and bloodless; then they shone in the liquid lustre of her eyes, which had suddenly acquired a beauty more singular than that of Miss Temple’s—a beauty neither of fine colour nor long eyelash, nor pencilled brow, but of meaning, of movement, of radiance. Then her soul sat on her lips, and language flowed, from what source I cannot tell. |