above quells t meaning is t in taugo paint  sky, and on top. mos? For t is Latmos. t the drawings away!”

    I ied trings of tfolio, w cly—

    “It is nine o’clock: , Miss Eyre, to let Adèle sit up so long? take o bed.”

    Adèle  to kiss ting t scarcely seemed to relis more t would have done, nor so much.

    “I ooken t ired of our company, and ing: I took my portfolio: seyed to urn, and so hdrew.

    “You said Mr. Rocer  strikingly peculiar, Mrs. Fairfax,” I observed, ting Adèle to bed.

    “ell, is he?”

    “I t.”

    “true: no doubt o a stranger, but I am so accustomed to ; and ties of temper, allowance should be made.”

    “hy?”

    “Partly because it is ure—and ly because s, no doubt, to s unequal.”

    “ about?”

    “Family troubles, for one thing.”

    “But he has no family.”

    “Not no  least, relatives.  her a few years since.”

    “her?”

    “Yes. t Mr. Rocer  been very long in possession of ty; only about nine years.”

    “Nine years is a tolerable time. as o be still inconsolable for his loss?”

    “. I believe tandings beter  quite just to Mr. Edo keep tate toget like to diminisy by division, and yet  Mr. Edo keep up ter eps aken t  quite fair, and made a great deal of miscer and Mr. Roo bring Mr. Edo une: ure of t position   could not brook .  very forgiving: tled kind of life. I don’t t at tnigoget a  er of tate; and, indeed, no wonder he old place.”

    “?”

    “Per gloomy.”

    t Mrs. Fairfax e