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you; but it was not right"

"Oh, you have been very correct--very careful, very sensible"

I reflected, and thought, on the whole, I had It was a couard al of ipsies and

fortune-tellers did not express the old woned voice, her

anxiety to conceal her features But ma, that ht of Mr Rochester

"Well," said he, "what are you nify?"

"Wonder and self-congratulation, sir I have your permission to

retire now, I suppose?"

"No; stay a -rooipsy, I daresay"

"Sit down!--Let me hear what they said about , sir; it must be near eleven o'clock

Oh, are you aware, Mr Rochester, that a stranger has arrived here

since you left this er!--no; who can it be? I expected no one; is he gone?"

"No; he said he had known you long, and that he could take the

liberty of installing hiive his name?"