at the school
where he had placed her. Her frantic joy at beholding me again moved me much.
She looked pale and thin: she said she was not happy. I found the rules of the
establishment were too strict, its course of study too severe, for a child of
her age: I took her home with me. I meant to become her governess once more; but
I soon found this impracticable; my time and cares were now required by another
- my husband needed them all. So I sought out a school conducted on a more
indulgent system; and near enough to permit of my visiting her often, and
bringing her home sometimes. I took care she should never want for anything that
could contribute to her comfort: she soon settled in her new abode, became very
happy there, and made fair progress in her studies. As she grew up, a sound
English education corrected in a great measure her French defects; and when she
left school, I found in her a pleasing and obliging companion: docile,
good-tempered, and well-principled. By her grateful attention to me and mine,
she has long since well repaid any little kindness I ever had it in my power to
offer her.
    My tale draws to its close: one word respecting my experience of married
life, and one brief glance at the fortunes of those whose names have most
frequently recurred in this narrative, and I have done.
    I have now been married ten years. I know what it is to live entirely for
and with what I love best on earth. I hold myself supremely blest - blest beyond
what language can express; because I am my husband's life as fully as he is
mine. No woman was ever nearer to her mate than I am: ever more absolutely bone
of his bone, and flesh of his flesh. I know no weariness of my Edward's society:
he knows none of mine, any more than we each do of the pulsation of the heart
that beats in our separate bosoms; consequently, we are ever together. To be
together is for us to be at once as free as in solitude, as gay as in company.
We talk, I believe, all day long: to talk to each other is but a more animated
and an audible thinking. All my confidence is bestowed on him, all his
confidence is devoted to me; we are precisely suited in character - perfect
concord is the result.
    Mr. Rochester continued blind the first two years of our union: perhaps it
was that circumstance that drew us so very