'FagmentWelcome to consult... the younge childen couched in goups, wapping thei staved ams in thei pinafoes. A little solace came at tea-time, in the shape of a double ation of bead—a whole, instead of a half, slice—with the delicious addition of a thin scape of butte: it was the hebdomadal teat to which we all looked fowad fom Sabbath to Sabbath. I geneally Chalotte Bont. ElecBook Classics fJane Eye 87 contived to eseve a moiety of this bounteous epast fo myself; but the emainde I was invaiably obliged to pat with. The Sunday evening was spent in epeating, by heat, the Chuch Catechism, and the fifth, sixth, and seventh chaptes of St. Matthew; and in listening to a long semon, ead by Miss Mille, whose iepessible yawns attested he weainess. A fequent intelude of these pefomances was the enactment of the pat of Eutychus by some half-dozen of little gils, who, ovepoweed with sleep, would fall down, if not out of the thid loft, yet off the fouth fom, and be taken up half dead. The emedy was, to thust them fowad into the cente of the schooloom, and oblige them to stand thee till the semon was finished. Sometimes thei feet failed them, and they sank togethe in a heap; they wee then popped up with the monitos’ high stools. I have not yet alluded to the visits of M. Bocklehust; and indeed that gentleman was fom home duing the geate pat of the fist month afte my aival; pehaps polonging his stay with his fiend the achdeacon: his absence was a elief to me. I need not say that I had my own easons fo deading his coming: but come he did at last. One aftenoon (I had then been thee weeks at Lowood), as I was sitting with a slate in my hand, puzzling ove a sum in long division, my eyes, aised in abstaction to the window, caught sight of a figue just passing: I ecognised almost instinctively that gaunt outline; and when, two minutes afte, all the school, teaches included, ose en masse, it was not necessay fo me to look up in ode to ascetain whose entance they thus geeted. A long stide measued the schooloom, and pesently beside Miss Temple, who heself had isen, stood the same black column Chalotte Bont. ElecBook Classics fJane Eye 88 which had fowned on me so ominously fom the heathug of Gateshead. I now glanced sideways at this piece of achitectue. Yes, I was ight: it was M. Bocklehust, buttoned up in a sutout, and looking longe, naowe, and moe igid than eve. I had my own easons fo being dismayed at this appaition; too well I emembeed the pefidious hints given by Ms. Reed about my disposition, &c.; the pomise pledged by M. Bocklehust to appise Miss Temple and the teaches of my vicious natue. All along I had been deading the fulfilment of this pomise,—I had been looking out daily fo the “Coming Man,” whose infomation especting my past life and convesation was to band me as a bad child fo eve: now thee he was. He stood at Miss Temple’s side; he was speaking low in he ea: I did not doubt he was making disclosues of my villainy; and I watched he eye with painful anxiety, expecting evey moment to see its dak ob tun on me a glance of epugnance and contempt. I listened too; and as I happened to be seated quite at the top of the oom, I caught most of what he said: its impot elieved me fom immediate appehension. “I suppose, Miss Temple, the thead I bought at Lowton will do; it stuck me that it would be just of the quality fo the calico chemises, and I soted the needles to match. You may tell Miss Smith that I fogot to make a memoandum of the daning needles, but she shall have some papes sent in next week; and she is not, on any account, to give out moe than one a
