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1The second picture contained for foreground only the dim peak of a hill, with grass and some leaves slanting as if by a
2breeze. Beyond and above spread an expanse of sky, dark blue as at twilight: rising into the sky was a woman's shape to
3the bust, portrayed in tints as dusk and soft as I could combine. The dim forehead was crowned with a star; the
4lineaments below were seen as through the suffusion of vapour; the eyes shone dark and wild; the hair streamed shadowy,
5like a beamless cloud torn by storm or by electric travail. On the neck lay a pale reflection like moonlight; the same
6faint lustre touched the train of thin clouds from which rose and bowed this vision of the Evening Star. The third
7showed the pinnacle of an iceberg piercing a polar winter sky: a muster of northern lights reared their dim lances,
8close serried, along the horizon. Throwing these into distance, rose, in the foreground, a head,--a colossal head,
9inclined towards the iceberg, and resting against it. Two thin hands, joined under the forehead, and supporting it, drew
10up before the lower features a sable veil; a brow quite bloodless, white as bone, and an eye hollow and fixed, blank of
11meaning but for the glassiness of despair, alone were visible. Above the temples, amidst wreathed turban folds of black
12drapery, vague in its character and consistency as cloud, gleamed a ring of white flame, gemmed with sparkles of a more
13lurid tinge. This pale crescent was "the likeness of a kingly crown;" what it diademed was "the shape which shape had
14none." "Were you happy when you painted these pictures?" asked Mr. Rochester presently. "I was absorbed, sir: yes, and I
15was happy. To paint them, in short, was to enjoy one of the keenest pleasures I have ever known." "That is not saying
16much. Your pleasures, by your own account, have been few; but I daresay you did exist in a kind of artist's dreamland
17while you blent and arranged these strange tints. Did you sit at them long each day?" "I had nothing else to do, because
18it was the vacation, and I sat at them from morning till noon, and from noon till night: the length of the midsummer
19days favoured my inclination to apply." "And you felt self-satisfied with the result of your ardent labours?" "Far from
20it. I was tormented by the contrast between my idea and my handiwork: in each case I had imagined something which I was
21quite powerless to realise." "Not quite: you have secured the shadow of your thought; but no more, probably. You had not
22enough of the artist's skill and science to give it full being: yet the drawings are, for a school-girl, peculiar. As to
23the thoughts, they are elfish. These eyes in the Evening Star you must have seen in a dream. How could you make them
24look so clear, and yet not at all brilliant? for the planet above quells their rays. And what meaning is that in their
25solemn depth? And who taught you to paint wind? There is a high gale in that sky, and on this hill-top. Where did you
26see Latmos? For that is Latmos. There! put the drawings away!" I had scarce tied the strings of the portfolio, when,
27looking at his watch, he said abruptly-- "It is nine o'clock: what are you about, Miss Eyre, to let Adèle sit up so
28long? Take her to bed." Adèle went to kiss him before quitting the room: he endured the caress, but scarcely seemed to
29relish it more than Pilot would have done, nor so much. "I wish you all good-night, now," said he, making a movement of
30the hand towards the door, in token that he was tired of our company, and wished to dismiss us. Mrs. Fairfax folded up
31her knitting: I took my portfolio: we curtseyed to him, received a frigid bow in return, and so withdrew. "You said Mr.
32Rochester was not strikingly peculiar, Mrs. Fairfax," I observed, when I rejoined her in her room, after putting Adèle
33to bed. "Well, is he?" "I think so: he is very changeful and abrupt." "True: no doubt he may appear so to a stranger,
34but I am so accustomed to his manner, I never think of it; and then, if he has peculiarities of temper, allowance should
35be made." "Why?" "Partly because it is his nature--and we can none of us help our nature; and partly because he has
36painful thoughts, no doubt, to harass him, and make his spirits unequal." "What about?" "Family troubles, for one
37thing." "But he has no family." "Not now, but he has had--or, at least, relatives. He lost his elder brother a few years
38since." "His elder brother?" "Yes. The present Mr. Rochester has not been very long in possession of the property; only
39about nine years." "Nine years is a tolerable time. Was he so very fond of his brother as to be still inconsolable for
40his loss?" "Why, no--perhaps not. I believe there were some misunderstandings between them. Mr. Rowland Rochester was
41not quite just to Mr. Edward; and perhaps he prejudiced his father against him. The old gentleman was fond of money, and
42anxious to keep the family estate together. He did not like to diminish the property by division, and yet he was anxious
43that Mr. Edward should have wealth, too, to keep up the consequence of the name; and, soon after he was of age, some
44steps were taken that were not quite fair, and made a great deal of mischief. Old Mr. Rochester and Mr. Rowland combined
45to bring Mr. Edward into what he considered a painful position, for the sake of making his fortune: what the precise
46nature of that position was I never clearly knew, but his spirit could not brook what he had to suffer in it. He is not
47very forgiving: he broke with his family, and now for many years he has led an unsettled kind of life. I don't think he
48has ever been resident at Thornfield for a fortnight together, since the death of his brother without a will left him
49master of the estate; and, indeed, no wonder he shuns the old place." "Why should he shun it?" "Perhaps he thinks it
50gloomy." The answer was evasive. I should have liked something clearer; but Mrs. Fairfax either could not, or would not,
51give me more explicit information of the origin and nature of Mr. Rochester's trials. She averred they were a mystery to
52herself, and that what she knew was chiefly from conjecture. It was evident, indeed, that she wished me to drop the
53subject, which I did accordingly.
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