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seems her career there was very honourable: from a pupil, she

became a teacher, like yourself--really it strikes me there are

parallel points in her history and yours--she left it to be a

governess: there, again, your fates were analogous; she undertook

the education of the ward of a certain Mr Rochester"

"Mr Rivers!" I interrupted

"I can guess your feelings," he said, "but restrain them for a

while: I have nearly finished; hear , but the one fact that he

professed to offer honourable irl, and that

at the very altar she discovered he had a wife yet alive, though a

lunatic What his subsequent conduct and proposals were is a matter

of pure conjecture; but when an event transpired which rendered

inquiry after the governess necessary, it was discovered she was

gone--no one could tell when, where, or how She had left

Thornfield Hall in the night; every research after her course had

been vain: the country had been scoured far and wide; no vestige of

infor her Yet that she should

be found is becoency: advertisements have

been put in all the papers; I s, a solicitor, co the details I have just

imparted Is it not an odd tale?"