Thornfield Hall
“I had to wake her, and I tried to persuade Grace, bribing her with the last of the money Jenny had given me, to tell me more of her wretched charge’s whereabouts. For the cell door was swinging open—and the strange woman was nowhere to be seen.
It was just as I thought: those who wish to fly away have only one idea, at Thornfield; and Grace, who has no head for heights, refused to accompany me to the small staircase with the window that opens out onto the roof. Only Mrs. Fairfax—I had been into... the housekeeper’s room barely half an hour earlier; she had brushed out my hair and given me a mug of the sweet pink tea as a reward for putting up with the pain of the fifty brushstrokes and ensuing agony of ringlets—was bustling along the top passage of the house with a pile of starched pillowcases and the like, saw me, and said sharply that there’d be trouble in store if I started mucking about on the roof again. But I dodged past her and went ahead all the same. Once there, I gazed once more with pride at the cannon up there on the highest roof, trained on any enemy of our master, Papa!MoreLess
It was just as I thought: those who wish to fly away have only one idea, at Thornfield; and Grace, who has no head for heights, refused to accompany me to the small staircase with the window that opens out onto the roof. Only Mrs. Fairfax—I had been into... the housekeeper’s room barely half an hour earlier; she had brushed out my hair and given me a mug of the sweet pink tea as a reward for putting up with the pain of the fifty brushstrokes and ensuing agony of ringlets—was bustling along the top passage of the house with a pile of starched pillowcases and the like, saw me, and said sharply that there’d be trouble in store if I started mucking about on the roof again. But I dodged past her and went ahead all the same. Once there, I gazed once more with pride at the cannon up there on the highest roof, trained on any enemy of our master, Papa!MoreLess
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