Quotation from: Villette

Written by: Charlotte Bronte

"Transformed, Lucy: transformed! Remember, you once called me a slave!
but I am a free man now!"

He stood up: in the port of his head, the carriage of his figure, in
his beaming eye and mien, there revealed itself a liberty which was
more than ease--a mood which was disdain of his past bondage.

"Miss Fanshawe," he pursued, "has led me through a phase of feeling
which is over: I have entered another condition, and am now much
disposed to exact love for love--passion for passion--and good measure
of it, too."