Both Uses of
repartee
in
Jane Eyre
- Mr. Rochester, allow me to disown my first answer: I intended no pointed repartee: it was only a blunder.†
p. 154.7 *
- I like you more than I can say; but I'll not sink into a bathos of sentiment: and with this needle of repartee I'll keep you from the edge of the gulf too; and, moreover, maintain by its pungent aid that distance between you and myself most conducive to our real mutual advantage.†
p. 315.3
Definition:
adroitness and cleverness in reply