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…showed last 75 words of 432 total…and Rochester begs Jane to run away with him to southern France. Jane realizes that becoming his mistress will compromise her integrity so she leaves Rochester. She encounters a long lost cousin, St. John Rivers, a missionary, who becomes convinced that Jane is his ideal wife. Jane rejects marriage without love just as love without marriage is unacceptable with Rochester. She ultimately achieves happiness when she reencounters Rochester and they are finally united in matrimony.