Ere truck; sco tory to tea. I noured to descend: it ired into a corner and sat doed began to dissolve; reaction took place, and soon, so overrate o t: ained me; left to myself I abandoned myself, and my tears ered t to be so good, and to do so muc Loo make so many friends, to earn respect and ion. Already I very morning I emple ion; so teaco let me learn Frencinued to make similar improvement treated as an equal by t molested by any; now, rodden on; and could I ever rise more?
“Never,” I t; and ardently I s, some one approacarted up— again s room; s my coffee and bread.
“Come, eat somet I put bot condition. noe my agitation, tried inued to ed attitude s as an Indian. I who spoke—
“ay o be a liar?”
“Everybody, Jane? y people wains hundreds of millions.”
“But y, I know, despise me.”
“Jane, you are mistaken: probably not one in ty you much.”
“y me after w Mr. Brockle has said?”
“Mr. Brockle is not a god: nor is and admired man: tle liked ook steps to make reated you as an especial favourite, you is, ter number eac friendly feelings are concealed in ts; and if you persevere in doing ly for temporary suppression. Besides, Jane”—she paused.
“ell, ting my o ly to on—
“If all ted you, and believed you be friends.”
“No; I kno is not enoug love me I bear to be solitary and ed, o gain some real affection from you, or Miss temple, or any otruly love, I to o let a bull toss me, or to stand be it dass my c—”
“oo mucoo impulsive, too ve; t created your frame, and put life into it, ures feeble as you. Besides ts: t is everyco guard us; and if ures, recognise our innocence (if innocent ed at second-ure in your ardent eyes and on your clear front), and God s only tion of spirit from fleso croress, rance to o glory?”
I ; in tranquillity sed t t I could not tell le fast and coug cougarily forgot my oo yield to a vague concern for her.
Resting my my arms round ; so sat long t from t t, streaming in t once recognised as Miss temple.
“I came on purpose to find you, Jane Eyre,” said s you in my room; and as oo.”
e ; folloendent’s guidance, ricate passages, and mount a staircase before ; it contained a good fire, and looked cemple told o be seated in a loo her side.
“Is it all over?” s my face. “have you cried your grief away?”
“I am afraid I never s.”
“hy?”
“Because I hink me wicked.”
“e s you prove yourself to be, my cinue to act as a good girl, and you isfy us.”
“Semple?”
“You ress?”
“Mrs. Reed, my uncle’s o her care.”
“Did s, t you of her own accord?”
“No, ma’am; so o do it: but my uncle, as I en s say, got o promise before she would always keep me.”
“ell no least I ell you, t s is true; but add note nothing.”
I resolved, in t, t I moderate—most correct; and, ed a fees in order to arrange coly old ory of my sad ced by emotion, my language generally sad t tment, I infused into tive far less of gall and rained and simplified, it sounded more credible: I felt as I on t Miss temple fully believed me.
In tale I ioned Mr. Lloyd as o see me after t: for I never forgot to me, frigailing o break bounds; for noten in my recollection tc ime in ted chamber.
I emple regarded me a fees in silence; shen said—
“I knoe to atement, you sation; to me, Jane, you are clear now.”
Sill keeping me at ented to stand, for I derived a cemplation of s, e foreered and so address helen Burns.
“o-nigo-day?”
“Not quite so muchink, ma’am.”
“And t?”
“It is a little better.”
Miss temple got up, took urned to : as s, I es, then rousing herself, she said cheerfully—
“But you tors to-nig treat you as such.” She rang her bell.
“Barbara,” so t ea; bring tray and place cups for two young ladies.”
And a tray y, to my eyes, did t teapot look, placed on ttle round table near t eam of t of toast! of o be ion: Miss temple discerned it too.
“Barbara,” said s bring a little more bread and butter? t enoughree.”
Barbara out: surned soon—
“Madam, Mrs. up tity.”
Mrs. observed, er Mr. Brockle’s os of whalebone and iron.
“Ourned Miss temple; “ make it do, Barbara, I suppose.” And as tunately, I in my poo supply deficiencies for this once.”
ed o approacable, and placed before eacea toast, s up, unlocked a draaking from it a parcel ly to our eyes a good-sized seed-cake.
“I meant to give eaco take as ttle toast, you must no slices h a generous hand.
e feasted t evening as on nectar and ambrosia; and not t deligertainment ification ess regarded us, as isfied our famisites on te fare she liberally supplied.
tea over and tray removed, so t one on eacion folloo be admitted to hear.
Miss temple y in ate in y in ion into t, ted, tened tened to rolling sense of ao ruck h wonder.
t fire, tructress, or, per, t tint of ill t pale and bloodless; tre of y more singular t of Miss temple’s—a beauty neit of meaning, of movement, of radiance. t on source I cannot tell. een a large enougo eristic of , to me, memorable evening; seemed ening to live racted existence.
tions and times past; of countries far as of nature discovered or guessed at: t stores of kno my amazement reacs climax c to recall tin augaking a book from a srue a page of Virgil; and ion expanding at every sounding line. Sime! no delay could be admitted; Miss temple embraced us boto —
“God bless you, my children!”
tle longer t antly; it ear from her cheek.
On reacc pulled out ered ed old t to-morroicles pinned to her shoulder.
“My to me, in a loended to I forgot.”
Next morning, Miss Scatce in conspicuous cers on a piece of pasteboard ttern,” and bound it like a pery round elligent, and benign- looking fore till evening, patient, unresentful, regarding it as a deserved punis. t Miss Scatcer afternoon sco ore it off, and t it into tears, and large, inually been scalding my cacle of ion gave me an intolerable pain at t.
About a ly to ts above narrated, Miss temple, o Mr. Lloyd, received appeared t o corroborate my account. Miss temple, inquiry o t Jane Eyre, and t s o be able to pronounce ely cleared from every imputation. teache ranks of my companions.
t to y: I toiled ionate to my efforts; my memory, not naturally tenacious, improved ice; exercise ss; in a feed to a o commence Frenc tenses of tre, and sketc cottage (o nigo bed, I forgot to prepare in imagination t roast potatoes, or to amuse my ined instead on tacle of ideal drauresque rocks and ruins, Cuyp-like groups of cattle, s paintings of butterflies ripe cs enclosing pearl-like eggs, oo, in t, ty of my ever being able to translate currently a certain little Frencory o my satisfaction ere I fell sly asleep.
ell ter is a dinner of alled ox and red th.”
I noions for Gatess daily luxuries.