I have seen in his face a far different expression from that which hardens it now while she is so vivaciously accosting him; but then it came of itself: it was not elicited by meretricious arts and calculated manoeuvres; and one had but to accept it--to answer what he asked without pretension, to address him when needful without grimace--and it increased and grew kinder and more genial, and warmed one like a fostering sunbeam.
"Ho visto sui lineamenti del signor Rochester una espressione molto più dolce di quella eccitata dalle moine della signorina Ingram, ma allora quella espressione non era provocata da nessun atto calcolato. Bastava accettare le sue domande, rispondergli senza pretesa, parlargli senza smorfie.