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you You land; confine her with

due attendance and precautions at Thornfield: then travel yourself

to what clime you will, and form what new tie you like That wo, so sullied your nahted your youth, is not your wife, nor

are you her husband See that she is cared for as her condition

demands, and you have done all that God and humanity require of you

Let her identity, her connection with yourself, be buried in

oblivion: you are bound to i Place

her in safety and coradation with secrecy,

and leave her' "I acted precisely on this suggestion My father and brother had

not e known to their acquaintance; because, in the

very first letter I wrote to apprise theun to experience extreust of its consequences,

and, fro a hideous

future opening to e to keep it secret:

and very soon the infamous conduct of the wife my father had

selected for hter-in-law Far fro to publish the connection, he

became as anxious to conceal it as myself