Take your wages." I declined accepting more than was my due.

He scowled at first; then, as if recollecting something, he said-- "Right, right! Better not give you all now: you would, perhaps, stay away three months if you had fifty pounds.

There are ten; is it not plenty ?" "Yes, sir, but now you owe me five." "Come back for it, then; I am your banker for forty pounds." "Mr.Rochester, I may as well mention another matter of business to you while I have the opportunity." "Matter of business?
I am curious to hear it." "You have as good as informed me, sir, that you are going shortly to be married ?" "Yes; what then ?" "In that case, sir, Adele ought to go to school: I am sure you will perceive the necessity of it." "To get her out of my bride's way, who might otherwise walk over her rather too emphatically?
There's sense in the suggestion; not a doubt of it.

Adele, as you say, must go to school; and you, of course, must march straight to--the devil ?" "I hope not, sir; but I must seek another situation somewhere." "In course!" he exclaimed, with a twang of voice and a distortion of features equally fantastic and ludicrous.

He looked at me some minutes.
"And old Madam Reed, or the Misses, her daughters, will be solicited by you to seek a place, I suppose ?" "No, sir; I am not on such terms with my relatives as would justify me in asking favours of them--but I shall advertise." "You shall walk up the pyramids of Egypt!" he growled.