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| | Richard Mason (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24) |
 | | For a handsome and not an unamiable-looking man, he repelled me exceedingly: there was no power in that smooth-skinned face of a full oval shape: no firmness in that aquiline nose and small cherry mouth; there was no thought on the low, even forehead; no command in that blank, brown eye. |
 | | Later that night, Bertha Mason attacks him, and later in the novel, he interrupts the wedding of Rochester and Jane Eyre by revealing that Rochester previously married Bertha. |
 | | Finally, the consideration with which Jane studies Mason's face reveals Jane's thoughtfulness and intelligence, especially when compared with the superficial analyses Rochester's party guests exclaim, such as "pretty little mouth and nice nose" (162). |
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