1 I will speak to Miss Temple and the teachers.
2 Soon will the twilight close moonless and dreary.
3 Continue to act as a good girl, and you will satisfy us.
4 I will tell anybody who asks me questions, this exact tale.
5 She will be glad: nobody here understands her: Madame Fairfax is all English.
6 I leave no one to regret me much: I have only a father; and he is lately married, and will not miss me.
7 I shall send Miss Temple notice that she is to expect a new girl, so that there will be no difficulty about receiving her.
8 They will have a great deal of money, and you will have none: it is your place to be humble, and to try to make yourself agreeable to them.
9 I shall return to Brocklehurst Hall in the course of a week or two: my good friend, the Archdeacon, will not permit me to leave him sooner.
10 It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
11 Had he been a handsome, heroic-looking young gentleman, I should not have dared to stand thus questioning him against his will, and offering my services unasked.
12 I say scarcely voluntary, for it seemed as if my tongue pronounced words without my will consenting to their utterance: something spoke out of me over which I had no control.
13 I will never come to see you when I am grown up; and if any one asks me how I liked you, and how you treated me, I will say the very thought of you makes me sick, and that you treated me with miserable cruelty.
14 It is far better to endure patiently a smart which nobody feels but yourself, than to commit a hasty action whose evil consequences will extend to all connected with you; and besides, the Bible bids us return good for evil.
15 I am only bound to invoke Memory where I know her responses will possess some degree of interest; therefore I now pass a space of eight years almost in silence: a few lines only are necessary to keep up the links of connection.
16 I abhor artifice, particularly in children; it is my duty to show you that tricks will not answer: you will now stay here an hour longer, and it is only on condition of perfect submission and stillness that I shall liberate you then.
17 Teachers and pupils may look coldly on you for a day or two, but friendly feelings are concealed in their hearts; and if you persevere in doing well, these feelings will ere long appear so much the more evidently for their temporary suppression.
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