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"I believe she thought I had forgotten my station, and yours, sir"

"Station! station!--your station is in my heart, and on the necks of

those ould insult you, now or hereafter--Go"

I was soon dressed; and when I heard Mr Rochester quit Mrs

Fairfax's parlour, I hurried down to it The old lady, had been

reading herportion of Scripture--the Lesson for the day;

her Bible lay open before her, and her spectacles were upon it Her

occupation, suspended by Mr Rochester's announcement, seemed now

forgotten: her eyes, fixed on the blank wall opposite, expressed

the surprise of a quiet

me, she roused herself: she made a sort of effort to sratulation; but the smile expired, and the

sentence was abandoned unfinished She put up her spectacles, shut

the Bible, and pushed her chair back froan, "I hardly knohat to say to

you, Miss Eyre I have surely not been drea alone and fancy things that

have never happened It has seemed to me more than once when I have

been in a doze, that my dear husband, who died fifteen years since,

has come in and sat down beside me; and that I have even heard him