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Theof considerable

antiquity, moderate size, and no architectural pretensions, deep

buried in a wood I had heard of it before Mr Rochester often

spoke of it, and sometimes went there His father had purchased the

estate for the sake of the game covers He would have let the

house, but could find no tenant, in consequence of its ineligible

and insalubrious site Ferndean then remained uninhabited and

unfurnished, with the exception of some two or three rooms fitted up

for the accommodation of the squire when he went there in the season

to shoot

To this house I ca ale, and continued s rain The last

dismissed the chaise and driver with the double remuneration I had

promised Even ithin a very short distance of theof it, so thick and dark grew the

tiranite

pillars showed h theht of close-ranked trees There was a

grass-grown track descending the forest aisle between hoar and

knotty shafts and under branched arches I followed it, expecting

soon to reach the dwelling; but it stretched on and on, it would far