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"What we tell you is for your good," added Bessie, in no harsh

voice, "you should try to be useful and pleasant, then, perhaps, you

would have a home here; but if you become passionate and rude,

Missis will send you away, I am sure"

"Besides," said Miss Abbot, "God will punish her: He ht strike

her dead in the o?

Come, Bessie, ill leave her: I wouldn't have her heart for

anything Say your prayers, Miss Eyre, when you are by yourself;

for if you don't repent, soht be permitted to come

down the chi the door, and locking it behind them

The red-rooht say

never, indeed, unless when a chance influx of visitors at Gateshead

Hall rendered it necessary to turn to account all the accoest and stateliest chambers

in the any,

hung with curtains of deep red damask, stood out like a tabernacle

in the centre; the two large ith their blinds always drawn

doere half shrouded in festoons and falls of similar drapery;

the carpet was red; the table at the foot of the bed was covered

with a crimson cloth; the walls were a soft fawn colour with a blush