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第8章 识破人心

　　'Why are you come here, Jane? It is past eleven o'clock: I heard itstrike some minutes since.'

　　'That is curious,' said I, 'it is so easy to be careful.'

　　'Humph!' said Mr. Rochester, and he took his tea in silence.

　　'And Mrs. Reed?'

　　'No.'

　　'Of Mr. Reed's ghost I am: he died in that room, and was laid outthere. Neither Bessie nor any one else will go into it at night, ifthey can help it; and it was cruel to shut me up alone without acandle,- so cruel that I think I shall never forget it.'

　　The two ships becalmed on a torpid sea, I believed to be marinephantoms.

　　On the evening of the day on which I had seen Miss Scatcherd flogher pupil, Burns, I wandered as usual among the forms and tables andlaughing groups without a companion, yet not feeling lonely: when Ipassed the windows, I now and then lifted a blind, and looked out;it snowed fast, a drift was already forming against the lower panes;putting my ear close to the window, I could distinguish from thegleeful tumult within, the disconsolate moan of the wind outside.

　　'He says she'll not be here long.'