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Rh "Did he say that?"

"Not exactly, but he's not ashamed of being penniless and homeless."

"No, he isn't ashamed of anything. He hasn't any Bluebeard chambers. That's what's so fine about him, isn't it? And isn't he awfully good-looking?" Lucilla could not refrain from allowing herself this little malicious pleasure.

"A perfect Adonis," said Mr. Rochester. And you cannot wonder that he liked Mr. Dix less than he had done five minutes before.