Mr. Rocer  one  a montted Gateso leave immediately after t Georgiana entreated me to stay till s off to London,  invited by o direct er’s interment and settle t alone  neition, support in ions; so I bore ations as  in serue, t o myself, “If you and I ined to live alogetters on a different footing. I s settle tamely doo being ty; I so accomplis, or else it s undone: I s, also, on your keeping some of ts . It is only because our connection o be very transitory, and comes at a peculiarly mournful season, t I consent to render it so patient and compliant on my part.”

    At last I sa no urn to request me to stay anotime and attention, s to depart for some unknorunks, emptying drao look after to see callers, and anses of condolence.

    One morning sold me I  liberty. “And,” so you for your valuable services and discreet conduct! t in life and burden no one. to-morro out for tinent. I sake up my abode in a religious ; t and unmolested. I se myself for a time to tion of to a careful study of tem: if I find it to be, as I  it is, t calculated to ensure tly and in order, I senets of Rome and probably take the veil.”

    I neit tion nor attempted to dissuade . “tion  you to a : “muc do you!”

    ed, she said: “Good-bye, cousin Jane Eyre; I wish you well: you have some sense.”

    I turned: “You are not  sense, cousin Eliza; but  my business, and so it suits you, I don’t much care.”

    “You are in t,” said s our separate o er again, I may as ion  Georgiana made an advantageous matc man of fas Eliza actually took t t e, and wune.

    urning , I did not kno o come back to Gateser a long o be scolded for looking cold or gloomy; and later,  o come back from co Loo long for a plenteous meal and a good fire, and to be unable to get eiturnings  or desirable: no magnet dreo a given point, increasing in its strengttraction turn to t to be tried.

    My journey seemed tedious—very tedious: fifty miles one day, a nig at an inn; fifty miles t day. During t ts; I saered voice. I mused on train of tenants and servants—feives—t, t c of Eliza and Georgiana; I bee of a convent cell; and I d on and analysed te peculiarities of person and cer. t t totered ts; nige anoturn: laid doraveller’s bed, I left reminiscence for anticipation.

    I o t o stay t long; of t I y at ter  for London t ed to return in a fortnig o make arrangements for alked of purcill seemed strange to  from  t ake place. “You rangely incredulous if you did doubt it,” al comment. “I don’t doubt it.”

    tion follo of Miss Ingram all t: in a vivid morning dream I sa me and pointing me out anoter looked on  seemed, at both her and me.

    I  notified to Mrs. Fairfax t day of my return; for I did not  me at Millcote. I proposed to ance quietly by myself; and very quietly, after leaving my box in tler’s care, did I slip a six o’clock of a June evening, and take to ttle frequented.

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    I felt glad as tened before me: so glad t I stopped once to ask myself  joy meant: and to remind reason t it  to my o a permanent resting-place, or to a place ed my arrival. “Mrs. Fairfax o be sure,” said I; “and little Adèle  you kno  thinking of you.”

    But  so blind as inexperience? t it en! en! be  a fe most, and you are parted from rangled a ne persuade myself to own and rear—and ran on.

    too, in t quitting turning  t a field or to traverse, and tes.  I ime to gat to be at tall briar, sing leafy and floone steps; and I see—Mr. Rocer sitting ting.

    ell,  a g; yet every nerve I rung: for a moment I am beyond my oery.  does it mean? I did not tremble in tion in ir: I need not make an absolute fool of myself. I knoo t does not signify if I kney ways; for he has seen me.

    “s up here you are! Come on, if you please.”

    I suppose I do come on; t fas; being scarcely cognisant of my movements, and solicitous only to appear calm; and, above all, to control tly against my ruggle to express  I  is do to be composure.

    “And te, and on foot? Yes—just one of your tricks: not to send for a carriage, and come clattering over street and road like a common mortal, but to steal into t month?”

    “I , sir, who is dead.”

    “A true Janian reply! Good angels be my guard! Sells me so ance or s I’d as soon offer to take uus ligruant! truant!” ant. “Absent from me a e, I’ll be sworn!”

    I kneing my master again, even t o cease to be my master, and by t I o  ter (so at least I t) sucing  to taste but of ttered to stray and stranger birds like me, o feast genially.  o imply t it imported someto  . And  it were my home!

    leave tile, and I o ask to go by. I inquired soon if  been to London.

    “Yes; I suppose you found t out by second-sight.”

    “Mrs. Fairfax told me in a letter.”

    “And did s I  to do?”

    “Oh, yes, sir! Everybody knew your errand.”

    “You must see tell me if you don’t t  Mrs. Rocer exactly; and  trifle better adapted to matcernally. tell me no you give me a cer, or somet sort, to make me a handsome man?”

    “It  t, I added, “A loving eye is all to sucernness y.”

    Mr. Rocer imes read my unspoken ts o me incompre instance ook no notice of my abrupt vocal response; but  me ain smile  on rare occasions. o t too good for common purposes: it  over me now.

    “Pass, Janet,” said o cross tile: “go up ay your tle  at a friend’s threshold.”

    All I o do o obey o colloquise furt over tile  a  to leave —a force turned me round. I said—or somete of me—

    “ter, for your great kindness. I am strangely glad to get back again to you: and wherever you are is my home—my only home.”

    I  t even aken me ried. Little Adèle  of being loved by your felloures, and feeling t your presence is an addition to t.

    I t evening s my eyes resolutely against ture: I stopped my cars against t kept ion and coming grief. ea ing, and I  near , led close up to me, and a sense of mutual affection seemed to surround us tered a silent prayer t ed far or soon; but ered, unannounced, and looking at us, seemed to take pleasure in tacle of a group so amicable— s ed daug e e croquer sa petite maman Anglaise”—I ured to  er ogeter of ection, and not quite exiled from the sunshine of his presence.

    A fortnigurn to ter’s marriage, and I saion going on for suc. Almost every day I asked Mrs. Fairfax if s ive. Once sually put tion to Mr. Rocer as to ell o make of him.

    One t s to Ingram Park: to be sure it y miles off, on ty; but  distance to an ardent lover? to so practised and indefatigable a er, it  a morning’s ride. I began to c to conceive: t tc rumour aken; t one or boties o look at my master’s face to see if it  I could not remember time  s and sank into inevitable dejection, ly to o me where—and, alas! never had I loved him so well.