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Have I not described a pleasant site for a dwelling, when I speak of

it as bosoe of a

streah: but whether healthy or not is

another question

That forest-dell, where Lowood lay, was the cradle of fog and fog-

bred pestilence; which, quickening with the quickening spring, crept

into the Orphan Asyluh its crowded

schoolroom and dormitory, and, ere May arrived, transformed the

selected colds had predisposed most of the

pupils to receive infection: forty-five out of the eighty girls lay

ill at one time Classes were broken up, rules relaxed The feho continued ere allowed almost unlimited license; because

the medical attendant insisted on the necessity of frequent exercise

to keep them in health: and had it been otherwise, no one had

leisure to watch or restrain them Miss Temple's whole attention

was absorbed by the patients: she lived in the sick-roo it except to snatch a few hours' rest at night The

teachers were fully occupied with packing up andother

necessary preparations for the departure of those girls ere

fortunate enough to have friends and relations able and willing to

reion Many, already smitten, went

home only to die: some died at the school, and were buried quietly

and quickly, the nature of thedelay