Jane Eyre 简爱 Chapter 13

MR. ROCHESTER, it seems, by the surgeon's orders, went to bed early that night; nor did he rise soon next morning. When he did come down, it was to attend to business: his agent and some of his tenants ¹ were arrived, and waiting to speak with him., ,Adele and I had now to vacate the library: it would be in daily requisition as a reception-room for callers. A fire was lit in an apartment upstairs, and there I carried our books, and arranged it for the future schoolroom. I discerned in the course of the morning that Thornfield Hall was a changed place: no longer silent as a church, it echoed every hour or two to a knock at the door, or a clang of the bell: steps, too, often traversed the hall, and new voices spoke ² in different keys below; a rill from the outer world was flowing through it; it had a master: for my part, I liked it better., ,Adele was not easy to teach that day; she could not apply: she kept running to the door and looking over the banisters to see if she could get a glimpse of Mr. Rochester; then she coined pretexts ³ to go downstairs, in order, as I shrewdly suspected, to visit the library, where I knew she was not wanted; then, when I got a little angry, and made her sit still, she continued to talk incessantly ⁴ of her 'ami, Monsieur Edouard Fairfax de Rochester,' as she dubbed ⁵ him (I had not before heard his prenomens), and to conjecture ⁶ what presents he had brought her: for it appears he had intimated the night before, that when his luggage came from Millcote, there would be found amongst it a little box in whose contents she had an interest., , ,Monsieur a parle de vous: il m'a demande le nom de ma gouvernante, et si elle n'etait pas une petite personne, assez mince ⁷ et un peu pale. J'ai dit qu'oui: car c'est vrai, n'est-ce pas, mademoiselle?', ,I and my pupil dined as usual in Mrs. Fairfax's parlour; the afternoon was wild and snowy, and we passed it in the schoolroom. At dark I allowed Adele to put away books and work, and to run downstairs; for, from the comparative silence below, and from the cessation of appeals to the door-bell, I conjectured ⁸ that Mr. Rochester was now at liberty. Left alone, I walked to the window; but nothing was to be seen thence: twilight ⁹ and snowflakes together thickened the air, and hid the very shrubs ¹⁰ on the lawn. I let down the curtain and went back to the fireside., ,Tenants are jointly and severally liable for payment of the rent. 租金由承租人共同且分别承担
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