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As
I
sat
in
my
usual
nook
,
and
looked
at
him
with
the
light
of
the
girandoles
on
the
mantelpiece
beaming
full
over
him
--
for
he
occupied
an
arm-chair
drawn
close
to
the
fire
,
and
kept
shrinking
still
nearer
,
as
if
he
were
cold
,
I
compared
him
with
Mr.
Rochester
.
I
think
(
with
deference
be
it
spoken
)
the
contrast
could
not
be
much
greater
between
a
sleek
gander
and
a
fierce
falcon
:
between
a
meek
sheep
and
the
rough-coated
keen-eyed
dog
,
its
guardian
.
He
had
spoken
of
Mr.
Rochester
as
an
old
friend
.
A
curious
friendship
theirs
must
have
been
:
a
pointed
illustration
,
indeed
,
of
the
old
adage
that
"
extremes
meet
.
"
Two
or
three
of
the
gentlemen
sat
near
him
,
and
I
caught
at
times
scraps
of
their
conversation
across
the
room
.
At
first
I
could
not
make
much
sense
of
what
I
heard
;
for
the
discourse
of
Louisa
Eshton
and
Mary
Ingram
,
who
sat
nearer
to
me
,
confused
the
fragmentary
sentences
that
reached
me
at
intervals
.
These
last
were
discussing
the
stranger
;
they
both
called
him
"
a
beautiful
man
.
"
Louisa
said
he
was
"
a
love
of
a
creature
,
"
and
she
"
adored
him
;
"
and
Mary
instanced
his
"
pretty
little
mouth
,
and
nice
nose
,
"
as
her
ideal
of
the
charming
.
"
And
what
a
sweet-tempered
forehead
he
has
!
"
cried
Louisa
,
--
"
so
smooth
--
none
of
those
frowning
irregularities
I
dislike
so
much
;
and
such
a
placid
eye
and
smile
!
"
And
then
,
to
my
great
relief
,
Mr.
Henry
Lynn
summoned
them
to
the
other
side
of
the
room
,
to
settle
some
point
about
the
deferred
excursion
to
Hay
Common
.
I
was
now
able
to
concentrate
my
attention
on
the
group
by
the
fire
,
and
I
presently
gathered
that
the
new-comer
was
called
Mr.
Mason
;
then
I
learned
that
he
was
but
just
arrived
in
England
,
and
that
he
came
from
some
hot
country
:
which
was
the
reason
,
doubtless
,
his
face
was
so
sallow
,
and
that
he
sat
so
near
the
hearth
,
and
wore
a
surtout
in
the
house
.
Presently
the
words
Jamaica
,
Kingston
,
Spanish
Town
,
indicated
the
West
Indies
as
his
residence
;
and
it
was
with
no
little
surprise
I
gathered
,
ere
long
,
that
he
had
there
first
seen
and
become
acquainted
with
Mr.
Rochester
.
He
spoke
of
his
friend
's
dislike
of
the
burning
heats
,
the
hurricanes
,
and
rainy
seasons
of
that
region
.
I
knew
Mr.
Rochester
had
been
a
traveller
:
Mrs.
Fairfax
had
said
so
;
but
I
thought
the
continent
of
Europe
had
bounded
his
wanderings
;
till
now
I
had
never
heard
a
hint
given
of
visits
to
more
distant
shores
.
I
was
pondering
these
things
,
when
an
incident
,
and
a
somewhat
unexpected
one
,
broke
the
thread
of
my
musings
.
Mr.
Mason
,
shivering
as
some
one
chanced
to
open
the
door
,
asked
for
more
coal
to
be
put
on
the
fire
,
which
had
burnt
out
its
flame
,
though
its
mass
of
cinder
still
shone
hot
and
red
.
The
footman
who
brought
the
coal
,
in
going
out
,
stopped
near
Mr.
Eshton
's
chair
,
and
said
something
to
him
in
a
low
voice
,
of
which
I
heard
only
the
words
,
"
old
woman
,
"
--
"
quite
troublesome
.
"
"
Tell
her
she
shall
be
put
in
the
stocks
if
she
does
not
take
herself
off
,
"
replied
the
magistrate
.
