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"Just two miles, ht to ave a box I had into the ostler's charge, to be kept till I

called for it; paid htening day gleailt letters, "The Rochester Arms" My heart leapt up: I was

already on ht

struck it:"Your ht

you know: and then, if he is at Thornfield Hall, towards which you

hasten, who besides hi to do with him: you dare not speak to him or seek his

presence You have lost your labour--you had better go no farther,"

urged the monitor "Ask inforive you all you seek: they can solve your doubts at once Go

up to that estion was sensible, and yet I could not force myself to act

on it I so dreaded a reply that would crush ht yet once more see the

Hall under the ray of her star There was the stile before h which I had hurried, blind, deaf, distracted

with a revengeful fury tracking and scourgingI

fled from Thornfield: ere I well knehat course I had resolved to

take, I was in the midst of them How fast I walked! How I ran