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"Yes, Robert, I shall be ready: it seeo"

"I think so too, Miss Bessie said she was sure you would not

refuse: but I suppose you will have to ask leave before you can get

off?"

"Yes; and I will do it now;" and having directed him to the

servants' hall, and recommended him to the care of John's wife, and

the attentions of John himself, I went in search of Mr Rochester

He was not in any of the lower rooms; he was not in the yard, the

stables, or the grounds I asked Mrs Fairfax if she had seen hi billiards with Miss Ingram To

the billiard-room I hastened: the click of balls and the huram, the two Misses

Eshton, and their ade to disturb so interesting a party; my errand,

however, was one I could not defer, so I approached the rahtily: her eyes see creature want now?" and when I said, in a low voice, "Mr

Rochester," she made a movement as if tempted to order me away I

reraceful and very

striking: she wore a auzy azure