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From my discourse with Mr Lloyd, and from the above reported

conference between Bessie and Abbot, I gathered enough of hope to

suffice as a e seemed near,-

-I desired and waited it in silence It tarried, however: days and

weeks passed: I had regained my normal state of health, but no new

allusion was made to the subject over which I brooded Mrs Reed

surveyed me at times with a severe eye, but seldom addressed me:

since my illness, she had drawn a more marked line of separation

than ever betweenme to take my meals alone,

and pass all my time in the nursery, while -roo me to school: still I felt an instinctive certainty

that she would not long endure lance, now more than ever, when turned on me, expressed an

insuperable and rooted aversion

Eliza and Georgiana, evidently acting according to orders, spoke to

ue in his cheek