ily—applying myself to take pains , and imitating as closely as possible tion of my teacain degree of readiness and correctness in t likely to be muc a loss  I , I addressed some po ongue: s first, but after ed at table, and sen minutes tering fluently.

    “Aer does: I can talk to you as I can to ands  s smoked— did smoke!—and I ty room called ttle beds in anot of mine; it was like a s is your name?”

    “Eyre—Jane Eyre.”

    “Aire? Ba say it. ell, our sopped in t e daylig a great city—a y,  at all like tty clean toer, and  into a coacook us to a beautiful large el. e stayed to  green place full of trees, called tiful birds in it, t I fed h crumbs.”

    “Can you understand ?” asked Mrs. Fairfax.

    I understood omed to t tongue of Madame Pierrot.

    “I ion or t s: I wonder if shem?”

    “Adèle,” I inquired, “ pretty clean town you spoke of?”

    “I lived long ago  so to teaco dance and sing, and to say verses. A great many gentlemen and ladies came to see mama, and I used to dance before to sit on to t. S you hear me sing now?”

    S, so I permitted o give a specimen of s. Descending from tle ing o t rain of a forsaken lady, o tendant to deck est jeo meet t nig a ball, and prove to y of tle ion ed her.

    t seemed strangely c singer; but I suppose t of tion lay in es of love and jealousy aste t point  least I t so.

    Adèle sang tte tunefully enougé of  you some poetry.”

    Assuming an attitude, ss: fable de La Fontaine.” Stle piece t