I had not intended to love him; the reader knows I had wrought hard to extirpate from my soul the germs of love there detected; and now, at the first renewed view of him, they spontaneously revived, great and strong! He made me love him without looking at me.

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The word of the text is that the heroine did not intend to love him and she did not even like him. She was not planning on falling in love with him and had done all she could to keep away from him. But, she fell in love with him anyway and was even willing to go to the ends of the earth for him. The word “love” is used twenty times in this short story and is used in all different ways. One way of interpreting the word is to think of it as a strong emotion, that is what we think it means here.

Source: Jane Eyre

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