He chuckled; he rubbed his hands. "Oh，it is rich to see and hear her!" he exclaimed. "Is she original? Is she piquant? I would not exchange this one little English girl for the Grand Turk"s whole seraglio，gazelle-eyes，houri forms，and all!"

The Eastern allusion bit me again. "I"ll not stand you an inch in the stead of a seraglio," I said; "so don"t consider me an equivalent for one. If you have a fancy for anything in that line，away with you，sir，to the bazaars of Stamboul without delay，and lay out in extensive slave-purchases some of that spare cash you seem at a loss to spend satisfactorily here."

"And what will you do，Janet，while I am bargaining for so many tons of flesh and such an assortment of black eyes?"

"I"ll be preparing myself to go out as a missionary to preach liberty to them that are enslaved- your harem inmates amongst the rest. I"ll get admitted there，and I"ll stir up mutiny; and you，three-tailed bashaw as you are，sir，shall in a trice find yourself fettered amongst our hands: nor will I，for one，consent to cut your bonds till you have signed a charter，the most liberal that despot ever yet conferred."

"I would consent to be at your mercy，Jane."

"I would have no mercy，Mr. Rochester，if you supplicated for it with an eye like that. While you looked so，I should be certain that whatever charter you might grant under coercion，your first act，when released，would be to violate its conditions."

"Why，Jane，what would you have? I fear you will pel me to go through a private marriage ceremony，besides that performed at the altar. You will stipulate，I see，for peculiar terms- what will they be?"