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Merry days were these at Thornfield Hall; and busy days too: how

different from the first three months of stillness, monotony, and

solitude I had passed beneath its roof! All sad feelings seeotten: there was

life everywhere, allery, once so hushed, nor enter the front cha a smart lady's-maid or a dandy

valet

The kitchen, the butler's pantry, the servants' hall, the entrance

hall, were equally alive; and the saloons were only left void and

still when the blue sky and halcyon sunshine of the genial spring

weather called their occupants out into the grounds Even when that

weather was broken, and continuous rain set in for some days, no

damp seemed cast over enjoyment: indoor amusements only became more

lively and varied, in consequence of the stop put to outdoor gaiety

I wondered what they were going to do the first evening a change of

entertain charades," but

in norance I did not understand the ter-roohts otherwise

disposed, the chairs placed in a semicircle opposite the arch