Both Uses of
interloper
in
Jane Eyre
- Mrs. Reed probably considered she had kept this promise; and so she had, I dare say, as well as her nature would permit her; but how could she really like an interloper not of her race, and unconnected with her, after her husband's death, by any tie?†
p. 20.3 *interloper = someone or something that, without invitation, inserts itself
- "My dear children," pursued the black marble clergyman, with pathos, "this is a sad, a melancholy occasion; for it becomes my duty to warn you, that this girl, who might be one of God's own lambs, is a little castaway: not a member of the true flock, but evidently an interloper and an alien.†
p. 78.9
Definition:
someone or something that, without invitation, inserts itself -- such as an uninvited guest at a party or a species that invades non-native territory