Page:Jane Eyre (1st edition), Volume 2.djvu/260

This page has been validated.
252
JANE EYRE.

him. My future husband was becoming to me my whole world; and, more than the world: almost my hope of heaven. He stood between me and every thought of religion, as an eclipse intervenes between man and the broad sun. I could not, in those days, see God for his creature: of whom I had made an idol.