A lately deceased uncle has left Jane 20,000 pounds, while leaving nothing to his nephew and nothing to his two other nieces.
Jane says this is unjust and an arbitrator agrees with her.
She wants to split the inheritance with her three cousins, 5,000 pounds each.
But her reason is that she is committed to never marrying, having abandoned Rochester, and she desperately wants to live happy ever after and quite at leisure with all three of her newfound cousins.
But St. John has known plans to leave the country to be a missionary in India and the two girls, his two sisters, beautiful, better educated, and more accomplished than Jane, are hardly likely to never marry, themselves.
All the less so if she makes them each rich.
But that is what she is doing, anyway.
Trying to buy herself a cozy little family with which to be happy ever after, all four living together in harmony and joy.
Jane Eyre.
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