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1"I remained in the balcony. 'They will come to her boudoir, no doubt,' thought I: 'let me prepare an ambush.' So putting
2my hand in through the open window, I drew the curtain over it, leaving only an opening through which I could take
3observations; then I closed the casement, all but a chink just wide enough to furnish an outlet to lovers' whispered
4vows: then I stole back to my chair; and as I resumed it the pair came in. My eye was quickly at the aperture. Céline's
5chamber-maid entered, lit a lamp, left it on the table, and withdrew. The couple were thus revealed to me clearly: both
6removed their cloaks, and there was 'the Varens,' shining in satin and jewels,--my gifts of course,--and there was her
7companion in an officer's uniform; and I knew him for a young roué of a vicomte--a brainless and vicious youth whom I
8had sometimes met in society, and had never thought of hating because I despised him so absolutely. On recognising him,
9the fang of the snake Jealousy was instantly broken; because at the same moment my love for Céline sank under an
10extinguisher. A woman who could betray me for such a rival was not worth contending for; she deserved only scorn; less,
11however, than I, who had been her dupe. "They began to talk; their conversation eased me completely: frivolous,
12mercenary, heartless, and senseless, it was rather calculated to weary than enrage a listener. A card of mine lay on the
13table; this being perceived, brought my name under discussion. Neither of them possessed energy or wit to belabour me
14soundly, but they insulted me as coarsely as they could in their little way: especially Céline, who even waxed rather
15brilliant on my personal defects--deformities she termed them. Now it had been her custom to launch out into fervent
16admiration of what she called my 'beauté mâle:' wherein she differed diametrically from you, who told me point-blank, at
17the second interview, that you did not think me handsome. The contrast struck me at the time and--" Adèle here came
18running up again. "Monsieur, John has just been to say that your agent has called and wishes to see you." "Ah! in that
19case I must abridge. Opening the window, I walked in upon them; liberated Céline from my protection; gave her notice to
20vacate her hotel; offered her a purse for immediate exigencies; disregarded screams, hysterics, prayers, protestations,
21convulsions; made an appointment with the vicomte for a meeting at the Bois de Boulogne. Next morning I had the pleasure
22of encountering him; left a bullet in one of his poor etiolated arms, feeble as the wing of a chicken in the pip, and
23then thought I had done with the whole crew. But unluckily the Varens, six months before, had given me this filette
24Adèle, who, she affirmed, was my daughter; and perhaps she may be, though I see no proofs of such grim paternity written
25in her countenance: Pilot is more like me than she. Some years after I had broken with the mother, she abandoned her
26child, and ran away to Italy with a musician or singer. I acknowledged no natural claim on Adèle's part to be supported
27by me, nor do I now acknowledge any, for I am not her father; but hearing that she was quite destitute, I e'en took the
28poor thing out of the slime and mud of Paris, and transplanted it here, to grow up clean in the wholesome soil of an
29English country garden. Mrs. Fairfax found you to train it; but now you know that it is the illegitimate offspring of a
30French opera-girl, you will perhaps think differently of your post and protégée: you will be coming to me some day with
31notice that you have found another place--that you beg me to look out for a new governess, &c.--Eh?" "No: Adèle is not
32answerable for either her mother's faults or yours: I have a regard for her; and now that I know she is, in a sense,
33parentless--forsaken by her mother and disowned by you, sir--I shall cling closer to her than before. How could I
34possibly prefer the spoilt pet of a wealthy family, who would hate her governess as a nuisance, to a lonely little
35orphan, who leans towards her as a friend?" "Oh, that is the light in which you view it! Well, I must go in now; and you
36too: it darkens." But I stayed out a few minutes longer with Adèle and Pilot--ran a race with her, and played a game of
37battledore and shuttlecock. When we went in, and I had removed her bonnet and coat, I took her on my knee; kept her
38there an hour, allowing her to prattle as she liked: not rebuking even some little freedoms and trivialities into which
39she was apt to stray when much noticed, and which betrayed in her a superficiality of character, inherited probably from
40her mother, hardly congenial to an English mind. Still she had her merits; and I was disposed to appreciate all that was
41good in her to the utmost. I sought in her countenance and features a likeness to Mr. Rochester, but found none: no
42trait, no turn of expression announced relationship. It was a pity: if she could but have been proved to resemble him,
43he would have thought more of her. It was not till after I had withdrawn to my own chamber for the night, that I
44steadily reviewed the tale Mr. Rochester had told me. As he had said, there was probably nothing at all extraordinary in
45the substance of the narrative itself: a wealthy Englishman's passion for a French dancer, and her treachery to him,
46were every-day matters enough, no doubt, in society; but there was something decidedly strange in the paroxysm of
47emotion which had suddenly seized him when he was in the act of expressing the present contentment of his mood, and his
48newly revived pleasure in the old hall and its environs. I meditated wonderingly on this incident; but gradually
49quitting it, as I found it for the present inexplicable, I turned to the consideration of my master's manner to myself.
50The confidence he had thought fit to repose in me seemed a tribute to my discretion: I regarded and accepted it as such.
51His deportment had now for some weeks been more uniform towards me than at the first. I never seemed in his way; he did
52not take fits of chilling hauteur: when he met me unexpectedly, the encounter seemed welcome; he had always a word and
53sometimes a smile for me: when summoned by formal invitation to his presence, I was honoured by a cordiality of
54reception that made me feel I really possessed the power to amuse him, and that these evening conferences were sought as
55much for his pleasure as for my benefit. I, indeed, talked comparatively little, but I heard him talk with relish. It
56was his nature to be communicative; he liked to open to a mind unacquainted with the world glimpses of its scenes and
57ways (I do not mean its corrupt scenes and wicked ways, but such as derived their interest from the great scale on which
58they were acted, the strange novelty by which they were characterised); and I had a keen delight in receiving the new
59ideas he offered, in imagining the new pictures he portrayed, and following him in thought through the new regions he
60disclosed, never startled or troubled by one noxious allusion. The ease of his manner freed me from painful restraint:
61the friendly frankness, as correct as cordial, with which he treated me, drew me to him. I felt at times as if he were
62my relation rather than my master: yet he was imperious sometimes still; but I did not mind that; I saw it was his way.
63So happy, so gratified did I become with this new interest added to life, that I ceased to pine after kindred: my thin
64crescent-destiny seemed to enlarge; the blanks of existence were filled up; my bodily health improved; I gathered flesh
65and strength.
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