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Reader, it was on Monday night--near ht--that I too had

received the mysterious summons: those were the very words by which

I replied to it I listened to Mr Rochester's narrative, but made

no disclosure in return The coincidence struck me as too awful and

inexplicable to be co,

my tale would be such as must necessarily make a profound impression

on the s

too prone to gloom, needed not the deeper shade of the supernatural

I kept these things then, and pondered them in my heart

"You cannot noonder," continued my ht, I had difficulty in believing

you any other than athat would