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A week passed, and no news arrived of Mr Rochester: ten days, and

still he did not come Mrs Fairfax said she should not be

surprised if he were to go straight from the Leas to London, and

thence to the Continent, and not show his face again at Thornfield

for a year to come; he had not unfrequently quitted it in a manner

quite as abrupt and unexpected When I heard this, I was beginning

to feel a strange chill and failing at the heart I was actually

per sense of disappointment;

but rallyingmy principles, I at once

called ot over

the te Mr

Rochester's movements a matter in which I had any cause to take a

vital interest Not that I humbled myself by a slavish notion of

inferiority: on the contrary, I just said "You have nothing to do with the master of Thornfield, further than

to receive the salary he gives you for teaching his protegee, and to

be grateful for such respectful and kind treatht to expect at his hands Be sure that is