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It
was
too
far
to
return
to
dinner
,
and
an
allowance
of
cold
meat
and
bread
,
in
the
same
penurious
proportion
observed
in
our
ordinary
meals
,
was
served
round
between
the
services
.
At
the
close
of
the
afternoon
service
we
returned
by
an
exposed
and
hilly
road
,
where
the
bitter
winter
wind
,
blowing
over
a
range
of
snowy
summits
to
the
north
,
almost
flayed
the
skin
from
our
faces
.
I
can
remember
Miss
Temple
walking
lightly
and
rapidly
along
our
drooping
line
,
her
plaid
cloak
,
which
the
frosty
wind
fluttered
,
gathered
close
about
her
,
and
encouraging
us
,
by
precept
and
example
,
to
keep
up
our
spirits
,
and
march
forward
,
as
she
said
,
"
like
stalwart
soldiers
.
"
The
other
teachers
,
poor
things
,
were
generally
themselves
too
much
dejected
to
attempt
the
task
of
cheering
others
.
How
we
longed
for
the
light
and
heat
of
a
blazing
fire
when
we
got
back
!
But
,
to
the
little
ones
at
least
,
this
was
denied
:
each
hearth
in
the
schoolroom
was
immediately
surrounded
by
a
double
row
of
great
girls
,
and
behind
them
the
younger
children
crouched
in
groups
,
wrapping
their
starved
arms
in
their
pinafores
.
A
little
solace
came
at
tea-time
,
in
the
shape
of
a
double
ration
of
bread
--
a
whole
,
instead
of
a
half
,
slice
--
with
the
delicious
addition
of
a
thin
scrape
of
butter
:
it
was
the
hebdomadal
treat
to
which
we
all
looked
forward
from
Sabbath
to
Sabbath
.
I
generally
contrived
to
reserve
a
moiety
of
this
bounteous
repast
for
myself
;
but
the
remainder
I
was
invariably
obliged
to
part
with
.
The
Sunday
evening
was
spent
in
repeating
,
by
heart
,
the
Church
Catechism
,
and
the
fifth
,
sixth
,
and
seventh
chapters
of
St.
Matthew
;
and
in
listening
to
a
long
sermon
,
read
by
Miss
Miller
,
whose
irrepressible
yawns
attested
her
weariness
.
A
frequent
interlude
of
these
performances
was
the
enactment
of
the
part
of
Eutychus
by
some
half-dozen
of
little
girls
,
who
,
overpowered
with
sleep
,
would
fall
down
,
if
not
out
of
the
third
loft
,
yet
off
the
fourth
form
,
and
be
taken
up
half
dead
.
The
remedy
was
,
to
thrust
them
forward
into
the
centre
of
the
schoolroom
,
and
oblige
them
to
stand
there
till
the
sermon
was
finished
.
Sometimes
their
feet
failed
them
,
and
they
sank
together
in
a
heap
;
they
were
then
propped
up
with
the
monitors
'
high
stools
.
I
have
not
yet
alluded
to
the
visits
of
Mr.
Brocklehurst
;
and
indeed
that
gentleman
was
from
home
during
the
greater
part
of
the
first
month
after
my
arrival
;
perhaps
prolonging
his
stay
with
his
friend
the
archdeacon
:
his
absence
was
a
relief
to
me
.
I
need
not
say
that
I
had
my
own
reasons
for
dreading
his
coming
:
but
come
he
did
at
last
.
One
afternoon
(
I
had
then
been
three
weeks
at
Lowood
)
,
as
I
was
sitting
with
a
slate
in
my
hand
,
puzzling
over
a
sum
in
long
division
,
my
eyes
,
raised
in
abstraction
to
the
window
,
caught
sight
of
a
figure
just
passing
:
I
recognised
almost
instinctively
that
gaunt
outline
;
and
when
,
two
minutes
after
,
all
the
school
,
teachers
included
,
rose
en
masse
,
it
was
not
necessary
for
me
to
look
up
in
order
to
ascertain
whose
entrance
they
thus
greeted
.
A
long
stride
measured
the
schoolroom
,
and
presently
beside
Miss
Temple
,
who
herself
had
risen
,
stood
the
same
black
column
which
had
frowned
on
me
so
ominously
from
the
hearthrug
of
Gateshead
.
I
now
glanced
sideways
at
this
piece
of
architecture
.
Yes
,
I
was
right
:
it
was
Mr.
Brocklehurst
,
buttoned
up
in
a
surtout
,
and
looking
longer
,
narrower
,
and
more
rigid
than
ever
.
I
had
my
own
reasons
for
being
dismayed
at
this
apparition
;
too
well
I
remembered
the
perfidious
hints
given
by
Mrs.
Reed
about
my
disposition
,
etc.
;
the
promise
pledged
by
Mr.
Brocklehurst
to
apprise
Miss
Temple
and
the
teachers
of
my
vicious
nature
.
All
along
I
had
been
dreading
the
fulfilment
of
this
promise
,
--
I
had
been
looking
out
daily
for
the
"
Coming
Man
,
"
whose
information
respecting
my
past
life
and
conversation
was
to
brand
me
as
a
bad
child
for
ever
:
now
there
he
was
.
