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"Adele may accompany us, may she not, sir?"

"I told her no I'll have no brats!--I'll have only you"

"Do let her go, Mr Rochester, if you please: it would be better"

"Not it: she will be a restraint"

He was quite peremptory, both in look and voice The chill of Mrs

Fairfax's warnings, and the da of unsubstantiality and uncertainty had beset my hopes I

half lost the sense of power over him I was about mechanically to

obey him, without further ree, he looked at my face

"What is the one Do you

really wish the bairn to go? Will it annoy you if she is left

behind?"

"I would far rather she went, sir"

"Then off for your bonnet, and back like a flash of lightning!"

cried he to Adele

She obeyed hi's interruption will not matter much,"

said he, "when I hts,

conversation, and co ratitude for my intercession: she was instantly stoay

into a corner on the other side of hihbour was too restrictive to him, in his