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1"John Reed is dead, too, sir: he ruined himself and half-ruined his family, and is supposed to have committed suicide.
2The news so shocked his mother that it brought on an apoplectic attack." "And what good can you do her? Nonsense, Jane!
3I would never think of running a hundred miles to see an old lady who will, perhaps, be dead before you reach her:
4besides, you say she cast you off." "Yes, sir, but that is long ago; and when her circumstances were very different: I
5could not be easy to neglect her wishes now." "How long will you stay?" "As short a time as possible, sir." "Promise me
6only to stay a week--" "I had better not pass my word: I might be obliged to break it." "At all events you will come
7back: you will not be induced under any pretext to take up a permanent residence with her?" "Oh, no! I shall certainly
8return if all be well." "And who goes with you? You don't travel a hundred miles alone." "No, sir, she has sent her
9coachman." "A person to be trusted?" "Yes, sir, he has lived ten years in the family." Mr. Rochester meditated. "When do
10you wish to go?" "Early to-morrow morning, sir." "Well, you must have some money; you can't travel without money, and I
11daresay you have not much: I have given you no salary yet. How much have you in the world, Jane?" he asked, smiling. I
12drew out my purse; a meagre thing it was. "Five shillings, sir." He took the purse, poured the hoard into his palm, and
13chuckled over it as if its scantiness amused him. Soon he produced his pocket-book: "Here," said he, offering me a note;
14it was fifty pounds, and he owed me but fifteen. I told him I had no change. "I don't want change; you know that. Take
15your wages." I declined accepting more than was my due. He scowled at first; then, as if recollecting something, he
16said-- "Right, right! Better not give you all now: you would, perhaps, stay away three months if you had fifty pounds.
17There are ten; is it not plenty?" "Yes, sir, but now you owe me five." "Come back for it, then; I am your banker for
18forty pounds." "Mr. Rochester, I may as well mention another matter of business to you while I have the opportunity."
19"Matter of business? I am curious to hear it." "You have as good as informed me, sir, that you are going shortly to be
20married?" "Yes; what then?" "In that case, sir, Adèle ought to go to school: I am sure you will perceive the necessity
21of it." "To get her out of my bride's way, who might otherwise walk over her rather too emphatically? There's sense in
22the suggestion; not a doubt of it. Adèle, as you say, must go to school; and you, of course, must march straight to--the
23devil?" "I hope not, sir; but I must seek another situation somewhere." "In course!" he exclaimed, with a twang of voice
24and a distortion of features equally fantastic and ludicrous. He looked at me some minutes. "And old Madam Reed, or the
25Misses, her daughters, will be solicited by you to seek a place, I suppose?" "No, sir; I am not on such terms with my
26relatives as would justify me in asking favours of them--but I shall advertise." "You shall walk up the pyramids of
27Egypt!" he growled. "At your peril you advertise! I wish I had only offered you a sovereign instead of ten pounds. Give
28me back nine pounds, Jane; I've a use for it." "And so have I, sir," I returned, putting my hands and my purse behind
29me. "I could not spare the money on any account." "Little niggard!" said he, "refusing me a pecuniary request! Give me
30five pounds, Jane." "Not five shillings, sir; nor five pence." "Just let me look at the cash." "No, sir; you are not to
31be trusted." "Jane!" "Sir?" "Promise me one thing." "I'll promise you anything, sir, that I think I am likely to
32perform." "Not to advertise: and to trust this quest of a situation to me. I'll find you one in time." "I shall be glad
33so to do, sir, if you, in your turn, will promise that I and Adèle shall be both safe out of the house before your bride
34enters it." "Very well! very well! I'll pledge my word on it. You go to-morrow, then?" "Yes, sir; early." "Shall you
35come down to the drawing-room after dinner?" "No, sir, I must prepare for the journey." "Then you and I must bid
36good-bye for a little while?" "I suppose so, sir." "And how do people perform that ceremony of parting, Jane? Teach me;
37I'm not quite up to it." "They say, Farewell, or any other form they prefer." "Then say it." "Farewell, Mr. Rochester,
38for the present." "What must I say?" "The same, if you like, sir." "Farewell, Miss Eyre, for the present; is that all?"
39"Yes." "It seems stingy, to my notions, and dry, and unfriendly. I should like something else: a little addition to the
40rite. If one shook hands, for instance; but no--that would not content me either. So you'll do no more than say
41Farewell, Jane?" "It is enough, sir: as much good-will may be conveyed in one hearty word as in many." "Very likely; but
42it is blank and cool--'Farewell.'" "How long is he going to stand with his back against that door?" I asked myself; "I
43want to commence my packing." The dinner-bell rang, and suddenly away he bolted, without another syllable: I saw him no
44more during the day, and was off before he had risen in the morning. I reached the lodge at Gateshead about five o'clock
45in the afternoon of the first of May: I stepped in there before going up to the hall. It was very clean and neat: the
46ornamental windows were hung with little white curtains; the floor was spotless; the grate and fire-irons were burnished
47bright, and the fire burnt clear. Bessie sat on the hearth, nursing her last-born, and Robert and his sister played
48quietly in a corner. "Bless you!--I knew you would come!" exclaimed Mrs. Leaven, as I entered. "Yes, Bessie," said I,
49after I had kissed her; "and I trust I am not too late. How is Mrs. Reed?--Alive still, I hope." "Yes, she is alive; and
50more sensible and collected than she was. The doctor says she may linger a week or two yet; but he hardly thinks she
51will finally recover." "Has she mentioned me lately?" "She was talking of you only this morning, and wishing you would
52come, but she is sleeping now, or was ten minutes ago, when I was up at the house. She generally lies in a kind of
53lethargy all the afternoon, and wakes up about six or seven. Will you rest yourself here an hour, Miss, and then I will
54go up with you?" Robert here entered, and Bessie laid her sleeping child in the cradle and went to welcome him:
55afterwards she insisted on my taking off my bonnet and having some tea; for she said I looked pale and tired. I was glad
56to accept her hospitality; and I submitted to be relieved of my travelling garb just as passively as I used to let her
57undress me when a child. Old times crowded fast back on me as I watched her bustling about--setting out the tea-tray
58with her best china, cutting bread and butter, toasting a tea-cake, and, between whiles, giving little Robert or Jane an
59occasional tap or push, just as she used to give me in former days. Bessie had retained her quick temper as well as her
60light foot and good looks. Tea ready, I was going to approach the table; but she desired me to sit still, quite in her
61old peremptory tones. I must be served at the fireside, she said; and she placed before me a little round stand with my
62cup and a plate of toast, absolutely as she used to accommodate me with some privately purloined dainty on a nursery
63chair: and I smiled and obeyed her as in bygone days. She wanted to know if I was happy at Thornfield Hall, and what
64sort of a person the mistress was; and when I told her there was only a master, whether he was a nice gentleman, and if
65I liked him. I told her he was rather an ugly man, but quite a gentleman; and that he treated me kindly, and I was
66content. Then I went on to describe to her the gay company that had lately been staying at the house; and to these
67details Bessie listened with interest: they were precisely of the kind she relished.
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