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I that evening shut ainst the voice that kept warning rief When tea was over and Mrs Fairfax had

taken her knitting, and I had assu on the carpet, had nestled close up to me, and a

sense of olden peace, I uttered a silent prayer that we ht not be parted

far or soon; but when, as we thus sat, Mr Rochester entered,

unannounced, and looking at us, seeroup so aht now that she had got her adopted daughter back

again, and added that he saw Adele was "prete e croquer sa petite

laise"--I half ventured to hope that he would, even after

his ether somewhere under the shelter of his

protection, and not quite exiled froht of dubious cal was said of theon for such an event Almost every day I asked Mrs Fairfax

if she had yet heard anything decided: her ansas always in the

negative Once she said she had actually put the question to Mr

Rochester as to when he was going to bring his bride home; but he