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"In ay is he peculiar?"

"I don't know--it is not easy to describe--nothing striking, but you

feel it when he speaks to you; you cannot be always sure whether he

is in jest or earnest, whether he is pleased or the contrary; you

don't thoroughly understand him, in short--at least, I don't: but

it is of no consequence, he is a very good ot from Mrs Fairfax of her employer and

a

character, or observing and describing salient points, either in

persons or things: the good lady evidently belonged to this class;

my queries puzzled, but did not draw her out Mr Rochester was Mr

Rochester in her eyes; a gentle

more: she inquired and searched no further, and evidently wondered

at ain a more definite notion of his identity

When we left the dining-room, she proposed to show me over the rest

of the house; and I followed her upstairs and downstairs, aded and handsorand: and soh dark and loere interesting from their air of

antiquity The furniture once appropriated to the lower apartments