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"
"
And
why
,
"
I
could
scarcely
ask
him
,
"
why
,
guardian
,
pray
tell
me
why
were
THEY
parted
?
"
"
It
was
her
act
,
and
she
kept
its
motives
in
her
inflexible
heart
.
He
afterwards
did
conjecture
(
but
it
was
mere
conjecture
)
that
some
injury
which
her
haughty
spirit
had
received
in
her
cause
of
quarrel
with
her
sister
had
wounded
her
beyond
all
reason
,
but
she
wrote
him
that
from
the
date
of
that
letter
she
died
to
him
—
as
in
literal
truth
she
did
—
and
that
the
resolution
was
exacted
from
her
by
her
knowledge
of
his
proud
temper
and
his
strained
sense
of
honour
,
which
were
both
her
nature
too
.
In
consideration
for
those
master
points
in
him
,
and
even
in
consideration
for
them
in
herself
,
she
made
the
sacrifice
,
she
said
,
and
would
live
in
it
and
die
in
it
.
She
did
both
,
I
fear
;
certainly
he
never
saw
her
,
never
heard
of
her
from
that
hour
.
Nor
did
any
one
.
"
"
Oh
,
guardian
,
what
have
I
done
!
"
I
cried
,
giving
way
to
my
grief
;
"
what
sorrow
have
I
innocently
caused
!
"
"
You
caused
,
Esther
?
"
"
Yes
,
guardian
.
Innocently
,
but
most
surely
.
That
secluded
sister
is
my
first
remembrance
.
"
"
No
,
no
!
"
he
cried
,
starting
.
"
Yes
,
guardian
,
yes
!
And
HER
sister
is
my
mother
!
"
I
would
have
told
him
all
my
mother
’
s
letter
,
but
he
would
not
hear
it
then
.
He
spoke
so
tenderly
and
wisely
to
me
,
and
he
put
so
plainly
before
me
all
I
had
myself
imperfectly
thought
and
hoped
in
my
better
state
of
mind
,
that
,
penetrated
as
I
had
been
with
fervent
gratitude
towards
him
through
so
many
years
,
I
believed
I
had
never
loved
him
so
dearly
,
never
thanked
him
in
my
heart
so
fully
,
as
I
did
that
night
And
when
he
had
taken
me
to
my
room
and
kissed
me
at
the
door
,
and
when
at
last
I
lay
down
to
sleep
,
my
thought
was
how
could
I
ever
be
busy
enough
,
how
could
I
ever
be
good
enough
,
how
in
my
little
way
could
I
ever
hope
to
be
forgetful
enough
of
myself
,
devoted
enough
to
him
,
and
useful
enough
to
others
,
to
show
him
how
I
blessed
and
honoured
him
.
My
guardian
called
me
into
his
room
next
morning
,
and
then
I
told
him
what
had
been
left
untold
on
the
previous
night
.
There
was
nothing
to
be
done
,
he
said
,
but
to
keep
the
secret
and
to
avoid
another
such
encounter
as
that
of
yesterday
.
He
understood
my
feeling
and
entirely
shared
it
.
He
charged
himself
even
with
restraining
Mr
.
Skimpole
from
improving
his
opportunity
.
One
person
whom
he
need
not
name
to
me
,
it
was
not
now
possible
for
him
to
advise
or
help
.
He
wished
it
were
,
but
no
such
thing
could
be
.
If
her
mistrust
of
the
lawyer
whom
she
had
mentioned
were
well
-
founded
,
which
he
scarcely
doubted
,
he
dreaded
discovery
.
He
knew
something
of
him
,
both
by
sight
and
by
reputation
,
and
it
was
certain
that
he
was
a
dangerous
man
.
Whatever
happened
,
he
repeatedly
impressed
upon
me
with
anxious
affection
and
kindness
,
I
was
as
innocent
of
as
himself
and
as
unable
to
influence
.
"
Nor
do
I
understand
,
"
said
he
,
"
that
any
doubts
tend
towards
you
,
my
dear
.
Much
suspicion
may
exist
without
that
connexion
.
"
"
With
the
lawyer
,
"
I
returned
.
"
But
two
other
persons
have
come
into
my
mind
since
I
have
been
anxious
.
Then
I
told
him
all
about
Mr
.
Guppy
,
who
I
feared
might
have
had
his
vague
surmises
when
I
little
understood
his
meaning
,
but
in
whose
silence
after
our
last
interview
I
expressed
perfect
confidence
.
"
Well
,
"
said
my
guardian
.
"
Then
we
may
dismiss
him
for
the
present
.
Who
is
the
other
?
"
I
called
to
his
recollection
the
French
maid
and
the
eager
offer
of
herself
she
had
made
to
me
.
"
Ha
!
"
he
returned
thoughtfully
.
"
That
is
a
more
alarming
person
than
the
clerk
.
But
after
all
,
my
dear
,
it
was
but
seeking
for
a
new
service
.
She
had
seen
you
and
Ada
a
little
while
before
,
and
it
was
natural
that
you
should
come
into
her
head
.
She
merely
proposed
herself
for
your
maid
,
you
know
.
She
did
nothing
more
.
"
"
Her
manner
was
strange
,
"
said
I
.
"
Yes
,
and
her
manner
was
strange
when
she
took
her
shoes
off
and
showed
that
cool
relish
for
a
walk
that
might
have
ended
in
her
death
-
bed
,
"
said
my
guardian
.
"
It
would
be
useless
self
-
distress
and
torment
to
reckon
up
such
chances
and
possibilities
.
There
are
very
few
harmless
circumstances
that
would
not
seem
full
of
perilous
meaning
,
so
considered
.
Be
hopeful
,
little
woman
.
You
can
be
nothing
better
than
yourself
;
be
that
,
through
this
knowledge
,
as
you
were
before
you
had
it
.
It
is
the
best
you
can
do
for
everybody
’
s
sake
.
I
,
sharing
the
secret
with
you
—
"
"
And
lightening
it
,
guardian
,
so
much
,
"
said
I
.
"
—
will
be
attentive
to
what
passes
in
that
family
,
so
far
as
I
can
observe
it
from
my
distance
.
And
if
the
time
should
come
when
I
can
stretch
out
a
hand
to
render
the
least
service
to
one
whom
it
is
better
not
to
name
even
here
,
I
will
not
fail
to
do
it
for
her
dear
daughter
’
s
sake
.
"
I
thanked
him
with
my
whole
heart
.
What
could
I
ever
do
but
thank
him
!
I
was
going
out
at
the
door
when
he
asked
me
to
stay
a
moment
.
Quickly
turning
round
,
I
saw
that
same
expression
on
his
face
again
;
and
all
at
once
,
I
don
’
t
know
how
,
it
flashed
upon
me
as
a
new
and
far
-
off
possibility
that
I
understood
it
.
"
My
dear
Esther
,
"
said
my
guardian
,
"
I
have
long
had
something
in
my
thoughts
that
I
have
wished
to
say
to
you
.
"
"
Indeed
?
"
"
I
have
had
some
difficulty
in
approaching
it
,
and
I
still
have
.
I
should
wish
it
to
be
so
deliberately
said
,
and
so
deliberately
considered
.
Would
you
object
to
my
writing
it
?
"
"
Dear
guardian
,
how
could
I
object
to
your
writing
anything
for
ME
to
read
?
"
"
Then
see
,
my
love
,
"
said
he
with
his
cheery
smile
,
"
am
I
at
this
moment
quite
as
plain
and
easy
—
do
I
seem
as
open
,
as
honest
and
old
-
fashioned
—
as
I
am
at
any
time
?
"
I
answered
in
all
earnestness
,
"
Quite
.
"
With
the
strictest
truth
,
for
his
momentary
hesitation
was
gone
(
it
had
not
lasted
a
minute
)
,
and
his
fine
,
sensible
,
cordial
,
sterling
manner
was
restored
.
"
Do
I
look
as
if
I
suppressed
anything
,
meant
anything
but
what
I
said
,
had
any
reservation
at
all
,
no
matter
what
?
"
said
he
with
his
bright
clear
eyes
on
mine
.
I
answered
,
most
assuredly
he
did
not
.
"
Can
you
fully
trust
me
,
and
thoroughly
rely
on
what
I
profess
,
Esther
?
"
"
Most
thoroughly
,
"
said
I
with
my
whole
heart
.
"
My
dear
girl
,
"
returned
my
guardian
,
"
give
me
your
hand
.
"
He
took
it
in
his
,
holding
me
lightly
with
his
arm
,
and
looking
down
into
my
face
with
the
same
genuine
freshness
and
faithfulness
of
manner
—
the
old
protecting
manner
which
had
made
that
house
my
home
in
a
moment
—
said
,
"
You
have
wrought
changes
in
me
,
little
woman
,
since
the
winter
day
in
the
stage
-
coach
.
First
and
last
you
have
done
me
a
world
of
good
since
that
time
.
"
"
Ah
,
guardian
,
what
have
you
done
for
me
since
that
time
!
"
"
But
,
"
said
he
,
"
that
is
not
to
be
remembered
now
.
"
"
It
never
can
be
forgotten
.
"
"
Yes
,
Esther
,
"
said
he
with
a
gentle
seriousness
,
"
it
is
to
be
forgotten
now
,
to
be
forgotten
for
a
while
.
You
are
only
to
remember
now
that
nothing
can
change
me
as
you
know
me
.
Can
you
feel
quite
assured
of
that
,
my
dear
?
"
"
I
can
,
and
I
do
,
"
I
said
.
"
That
’
s
much
,
"
he
answered
.
"
That
’
s
everything
.
But
I
must
not
take
that
at
a
word
.
I
will
not
write
this
something
in
my
thoughts
until
you
have
quite
resolved
within
yourself
that
nothing
can
change
me
as
you
know
me
.
If
you
doubt
that
in
the
least
degree
,
I
will
never
write
it
.
If
you
are
sure
of
that
,
on
good
consideration
,
send
Charley
to
me
this
night
week
—
’
for
the
letter
.
’
But
if
you
are
not
quite
certain
,
never
send
.
Mind
,
I
trust
to
your
truth
,
in
this
thing
as
in
everything
.
If
you
are
not
quite
certain
on
that
one
point
,
never
send
!
"
"
Guardian
,
"
said
I
,
"
I
am
already
certain
,
I
can
no
more
be
changed
in
that
conviction
than
you
can
be
changed
towards
me
.
I
shall
send
Charley
for
the
letter
.
"
He
shook
my
hand
and
said
no
more
.
Nor
was
any
more
said
in
reference
to
this
conversation
,
either
by
him
or
me
,
through
the
whole
week
.
When
the
appointed
night
came
,
I
said
to
Charley
as
soon
as
I
was
alone
,
"
Go
and
knock
at
Mr
.
Jarndyce
’
s
door
,
Charley
,
and
say
you
have
come
from
me
—
’
for
the
letter
.
’
"
Charley
went
up
the
stairs
,
and
down
the
stairs
,
and
along
the
passages
—
the
zig
-
zag
way
about
the
old
-
fashioned
house
seemed
very
long
in
my
listening
ears
that
night
—
and
so
came
back
,
along
the
passages
,
and
down
the
stairs
,
and
up
the
stairs
,
and
brought
the
letter
.
"
Lay
it
on
the
table
,
Charley
,
"
said
I
.
So
Charley
laid
it
on
the
table
and
went
to
bed
,
and
I
sat
looking
at
it
without
taking
it
up
,
thinking
of
many
things
.
I
began
with
my
overshadowed
childhood
,
and
passed
through
those
timid
days
to
the
heavy
time
when
my
aunt
lay
dead
,
with
her
resolute
face
so
cold
and
set
,
and
when
I
was
more
solitary
with
Mrs
.
Rachael
than
if
I
had
had
no
one
in
the
world
to
speak
to
or
to
look
at
.
I
passed
to
the
altered
days
when
I
was
so
blest
as
to
find
friends
in
all
around
me
,
and
to
be
beloved
.
I
came
to
the
time
when
I
first
saw
my
dear
girl
and
was
received
into
that
sisterly
affection
which
was
the
grace
and
beauty
of
my
life
.
I
recalled
the
first
bright
gleam
of
welcome
which
had
shone
out
of
those
very
windows
upon
our
expectant
faces
on
that
cold
bright
night
,
and
which
had
never
paled
.
I
lived
my
happy
life
there
over
again
,
I
went
through
my
illness
and
recovery
,
I
thought
of
myself
so
altered
and
of
those
around
me
so
unchanged
;
and
all
this
happiness
shone
like
a
light
from
one
central
figure
,
represented
before
me
by
the
letter
on
the
table
.
I
opened
it
and
read
it
.
It
was
so
impressive
in
its
love
for
me
,
and
in
the
unselfish
caution
it
gave
me
,
and
the
consideration
it
showed
for
me
in
every
word
,
that
my
eyes
were
too
often
blinded
to
read
much
at
a
time
.
But
I
read
it
through
three
times
before
I
laid
it
down
.
I
had
thought
beforehand
that
I
knew
its
purport
,
and
I
did
.
It
asked
me
,
would
I
be
the
mistress
of
Bleak
House
.
It
was
not
a
love
letter
,
though
it
expressed
so
much
love
,
but
was
written
just
as
he
would
at
any
time
have
spoken
to
me
.
I
saw
his
face
,
and
heard
his
voice
,
and
felt
the
influence
of
his
kind
protecting
manner
in
every
line
.
It
addressed
me
as
if
our
places
were
reversed
,
as
if
all
the
good
deeds
had
been
mine
and
all
the
feelings
they
had
awakened
his
.
It
dwelt
on
my
being
young
,
and
he
past
the
prime
of
life
;
on
his
having
attained
a
ripe
age
,
while
I
was
a
child
;
on
his
writing
to
me
with
a
silvered
head
,
and
knowing
all
this
so
well
as
to
set
it
in
full
before
me
for
mature
deliberation
.
It
told
me
that
I
would
gain
nothing
by
such
a
marriage
and
lose
nothing
by
rejecting
it
,
for
no
new
relation
could
enhance
the
tenderness
in
which
he
held
me
,
and
whatever
my
decision
was
,
he
was
certain
it
would
be
right
.
But
he
had
considered
this
step
anew
since
our
late
confidence
and
had
decided
on
taking
it
,
if
it
only
served
to
show
me
through
one
poor
instance
that
the
whole
world
would
readily
unite
to
falsify
the
stern
prediction
of
my
childhood
.
I
was
the
last
to
know
what
happiness
I
could
bestow
upon
him
,
but
of
that
he
said
no
more
,
for
I
was
always
to
remember
that
I
owed
him
nothing
and
that
he
was
my
debtor
,
and
for
very
much
.
He
had
often
thought
of
our
future
,
and
foreseeing
that
the
time
must
come
,
and
fearing
that
it
might
come
soon
,
when
Ada
(
now
very
nearly
of
age
)
would
leave
us
,
and
when
our
present
mode
of
life
must
be
broken
up
,
had
become
accustomed
to
reflect
on
this
proposal
.
Thus
he
made
it
.
If
I
felt
that
I
could
ever
give
him
the
best
right
he
could
have
to
be
my
protector
,
and
if
I
felt
that
I
could
happily
and
justly
become
the
dear
companion
of
his
remaining
life
,
superior
to
all
lighter
chances
and
changes
than
death
,
even
then
he
could
not
have
me
bind
myself
irrevocably
while
this
letter
was
yet
so
new
to
me
,
but
even
then
I
must
have
ample
time
for
reconsideration
.
In
that
case
,
or
in
the
opposite
case
,
let
him
be
unchanged
in
his
old
relation
,
in
his
old
manner
,
in
the
old
name
by
which
I
called
him
.
And
as
to
his
bright
Dame
Durden
and
little
housekeeper
,
she
would
ever
be
the
same
,
he
knew
.
This
was
the
substance
of
the
letter
,
written
throughout
with
a
justice
and
a
dignity
as
if
he
were
indeed
my
responsible
guardian
impartially
representing
the
proposal
of
a
friend
against
whom
in
his
integrity
he
stated
the
full
case
.
But
he
did
not
hint
to
me
that
when
I
had
been
better
looking
he
had
had
this
same
proceeding
in
his
thoughts
and
had
refrained
from
it
.
That
when
my
old
face
was
gone
from
me
,
and
I
had
no
attractions
,
he
could
love
me
just
as
well
as
in
my
fairer
days
.
That
the
discovery
of
my
birth
gave
him
no
shock
.
That
his
generosity
rose
above
my
disfigurement
and
my
inheritance
of
shame
.
That
the
more
I
stood
in
need
of
such
fidelity
,
the
more
firmly
I
might
trust
in
him
to
the
last
.
But
I
knew
it
,
I
knew
it
well
now
.
It
came
upon
me
as
the
close
of
the
benignant
history
I
had
been
pursuing
,
and
I
felt
that
I
had
but
one
thing
to
do
.
To
devote
my
life
to
his
happiness
was
to
thank
him
poorly
,
and
what
had
I
wished
for
the
other
night
but
some
new
means
of
thanking
him
?
Still
I
cried
very
much
,
not
only
in
the
fullness
of
my
heart
after
reading
the
letter
,
not
only
in
the
strangeness
of
the
prospect
—
for
it
was
strange
though
I
had
expected
the
contents
—
but
as
if
something
for
which
there
was
no
name
or
distinct
idea
were
indefinitely
lost
to
me
.
I
was
very
happy
,
very
thankful
,
very
hopeful
;
but
I
cried
very
much
.
By
and
by
I
went
to
my
old
glass
.
My
eyes
were
red
and
swollen
,
and
I
said
,
"
Oh
,
Esther
,
Esther
,
can
that
be
you
!
"
I
am
afraid
the
face
in
the
glass
was
going
to
cry
again
at
this
reproach
,
but
I
held
up
my
finger
at
it
,
and
it
stopped
.
"
That
is
more
like
the
composed
look
you
comforted
me
with
,
my
dear
,
when
you
showed
me
such
a
change
!
"
said
I
,
beginning
to
let
down
my
hair
.
"
When
you
are
mistress
of
Bleak
House
,
you
are
to
be
as
cheerful
as
a
bird
.
In
fact
,
you
are
always
to
be
cheerful
;
so
let
us
begin
for
once
and
for
all
.
"
I
went
on
with
my
hair
now
,
quite
comfortably
.
I
sobbed
a
little
still
,
but
that
was
because
I
had
been
crying
,
not
because
I
was
crying
then
.
"
And
so
Esther
,
my
dear
,
you
are
happy
for
life
.
Happy
with
your
best
friends
,
happy
in
your
old
home
,
happy
in
the
power
of
doing
a
great
deal
of
good
,
and
happy
in
the
undeserved
love
of
the
best
of
men
.
"
I
thought
,
all
at
once
,
if
my
guardian
had
married
some
one
else
,
how
should
I
have
felt
,
and
what
should
I
have
done
!
That
would
have
been
a
change
indeed
.
