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"What is all this?" de the corridor, her cap flying wide, her gown rustling

storave orders that Jane Eyre

should be left in the red-room till I came to her myself"

"Miss Jane screao," was the only answer "Loose Bessie's hand, child:

you cannot succeed in getting out by these means, be assured I

abhor artifice, particularly in children; it is my duty to show you

that tricks will not answer: you will now stay here an hour longer,

and it is only on condition of perfect submission and stillness that

I shall liberate you then"

"O aunt! have pity! Forgive me! I cannot endure it--let me be

punished some other way! I shall be killed if--"

"Silence! This violence is all most repulsive:" and so, no doubt,

she felt it I was a precocious actress in her eyes; she sincerely

looked on erous duplicity

Bessie and Abbot having retreated, Mrs Reed, iuish and wild sobs, abruptly thrust me back and lockedaway; and soon

after she was gone, I suppose I had a species of fit:

unconsciousness closed the scene