Ex-act-ly—pre-cise-ly: eness, you  traighe head.”

    “Soon, sir?”

    “Very soon, my—t is, Miss Eyre: and you’ll remember, Jane, t time I, or Rumour, plainly intimated to you t it ention to put my old baco to enter into tate of matrimony—to take Miss Ingram to my bosom, in s (sensive armful: but t’s not to t—one can’t oo muc tiful Blancen to me, Jane! You’re not turning your o look after more mot  it o me,  discretion I respect in you— foresigy  position—t in case I married Miss Ingram, bottle Adèle ter trot fort of slur conveyed in tion on ter of my beloved; indeed, ry to forget it: I sice only its ion. Adèle must go to sc get a neuation.”

    “Yes, sir, I ise immediately: and meantime, I suppose—” I o say, “I suppose I may stay ill I find anoter to betake myself to:” but I stopped, feeling it  do to risk a long sentence, for my voice  quite under command.

    “In about a monto be a bridegroom,” continued Mr. Rocer; “and in terim, I s for employment and an asylum for you.”

    “to give—”

    “Oo apologise! I consider t le assistance ly render ure mot I t: it is to undertake tion of ters of Mrs. Dionysius O’Gall of Bitternutt Lodge, Connauged people they say.”

    “It is a long way off, sir.”

    “No matter—a girl of your sense  object to tance.”

    “Not t tance: and the sea is a barrier—”

    “From w, Jane?”

    “From England and from thornfield: and—”

    “ell?”

    “From you, sir.”

    I said t involuntarily, and, tle sanction of