‘You have saved my life: I have a please in owning you so immense a debt. I cannot say more. Nothing else that has being would have been tolerable to me in the character of creditor for such an obligation: but you: it is different;—I feel your benefits no burden, Jane…I knew,’ he continued, ‘you would do me good in some way, at some time;—I saw it in your eyes when I first beheld you: their expression and smile did not…strike delight to my very inmost heart so for nothing…My cherished preserver, good night!’

Edward Fairfax Rochester - Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë