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"If JE, who advertised in the -shire Herald of last Thursday,

possesses the acquireive satisfactory references as to character and competency, a

situation can be offered her where there is but one pupil, a little

girl, under ten years of age; and where the salary is thirty pounds

per annum JE is requested to send references, name, address, and

all particulars to the direction:"Mrs Fairfax, Thornfield, near Millcote, -shire"

I exa was old-fashioned and

rather uncertain, like that of in elderly lady This circumstance

was satisfactory: a private fear had haunted uidance, I ran the risk of getting

into sos, I wished the result of le I now felt that an

elderly lady was no bad ingredient in the business I had on hand

Mrs Fairfax! I saw her in a black gown and 's cap; frigid,

perhaps, but not uncivil: a lish

respectability Thornfield! that, doubtless, was the nah I failed in my

efforts to conceive a correct plan of the premises Millcote, -

shire; I brushed up land, yes, I

saw it; both the shire and the town -shire was seventy miles

nearer London than the remote county where I now resided: that was

a recoo where there was life and