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Well
has
Solomon
said
--
"
Better
is
a
dinner
of
herbs
where
love
is
,
than
a
stalled
ox
and
hatred
therewith
.
"
I
would
not
now
have
exchanged
Lowood
with
all
its
privations
for
Gateshead
and
its
daily
luxuries
.
But
the
privations
,
or
rather
the
hardships
,
of
Lowood
lessened
.
Spring
drew
on
:
she
was
indeed
already
come
;
the
frosts
of
winter
had
ceased
;
its
snows
were
melted
,
its
cutting
winds
ameliorated
.
My
wretched
feet
,
flayed
and
swollen
to
lameness
by
the
sharp
air
of
January
,
began
to
heal
and
subside
under
the
gentler
breathings
of
April
;
the
nights
and
mornings
no
longer
by
their
Canadian
temperature
froze
the
very
blood
in
our
veins
;
we
could
now
endure
the
play-hour
passed
in
the
garden
:
sometimes
on
a
sunny
day
it
began
even
to
be
pleasant
and
genial
,
and
a
greenness
grew
over
those
brown
beds
,
which
,
freshening
daily
,
suggested
the
thought
that
Hope
traversed
them
at
night
,
and
left
each
morning
brighter
traces
of
her
steps
.
Flowers
peeped
out
amongst
the
leaves
;
snow-drops
,
crocuses
,
purple
auriculas
,
and
golden-eyed
pansies
.
On
Thursday
afternoons
(
half-holidays
)
we
now
took
walks
,
and
found
still
sweeter
flowers
opening
by
the
wayside
,
under
the
hedges
.
I
discovered
,
too
,
that
a
great
pleasure
,
an
enjoyment
which
the
horizon
only
bounded
,
lay
all
outside
the
high
and
spike-guarded
walls
of
our
garden
:
this
pleasure
consisted
in
prospect
of
noble
summits
girdling
a
great
hill-hollow
,
rich
in
verdure
and
shadow
;
in
a
bright
beck
,
full
of
dark
stones
and
sparkling
eddies
.
How
different
had
this
scene
looked
when
I
viewed
it
laid
out
beneath
the
iron
sky
of
winter
,
stiffened
in
frost
,
shrouded
with
snow
!
--
when
mists
as
chill
as
death
wandered
to
the
impulse
of
east
winds
along
those
purple
peaks
,
and
rolled
down
"
ing
"
and
holm
till
they
blended
with
the
frozen
fog
of
the
beck
!
That
beck
itself
was
then
a
torrent
,
turbid
and
curbless
:
it
tore
asunder
the
wood
,
and
sent
a
raving
sound
through
the
air
,
often
thickened
with
wild
rain
or
whirling
sleet
;
and
for
the
forest
on
its
banks
,
that
showed
only
ranks
of
skeletons
.
April
advanced
to
May
:
a
bright
serene
May
it
was
;
days
of
blue
sky
,
placid
sunshine
,
and
soft
western
or
southern
gales
filled
up
its
duration
.
And
now
vegetation
matured
with
vigour
;
Lowood
shook
loose
its
tresses
;
it
became
all
green
,
all
flowery
;
its
great
elm
,
ash
,
and
oak
skeletons
were
restored
to
majestic
life
;
woodland
plants
sprang
up
profusely
in
its
recesses
;
unnumbered
varieties
of
moss
filled
its
hollows
,
and
it
made
a
strange
ground-sunshine
out
of
the
wealth
of
its
wild
primrose
plants
:
I
have
seen
their
pale
gold
gleam
in
overshadowed
spots
like
scatterings
of
the
sweetest
lustre
.
All
this
I
enjoyed
often
and
fully
,
free
,
unwatched
,
and
almost
alone
:
for
this
unwonted
liberty
and
pleasure
there
was
a
cause
,
to
which
it
now
becomes
my
task
to
advert
.
Have
I
not
described
a
pleasant
site
for
a
dwelling
,
when
I
speak
of
it
as
bosomed
in
hill
and
wood
,
and
rising
from
the
verge
of
a
stream
?
Assuredly
,
pleasant
enough
:
but
whether
healthy
or
not
is
another
question
.
That
forest-dell
,
where
Lowood
lay
,
was
the
cradle
of
fog
and
fog-bred
pestilence
;
which
,
quickening
with
the
quickening
spring
,
crept
into
the
Orphan
Asylum
,
breathed
typhus
through
its
crowded
schoolroom
and
dormitory
,
and
,
ere
May
arrived
,
transformed
the
seminary
into
an
hospital
.
Semi-starvation
and
neglected
colds
had
predisposed
most
of
the
pupils
to
receive
infection
:
forty-five
out
of
the
eighty
girls
lay
ill
at
one
time
.
Classes
were
broken
up
,
rules
relaxed
.
The
few
who
continued
well
were
allowed
almost
unlimited
license
;
because
the
medical
attendant
insisted
on
the
necessity
of
frequent
exercise
to
keep
them
in
health
:
and
had
it
been
otherwise
,
no
one
had
leisure
to
watch
or
restrain
them
.
Miss
Temple
's
whole
attention
was
absorbed
by
the
patients
:
she
lived
in
the
sick-room
,
never
quitting
it
except
to
snatch
a
few
hours
'
rest
at
night
.
The
teachers
were
fully
occupied
with
packing
up
and
making
other
necessary
preparations
for
the
departure
of
those
girls
who
were
fortunate
enough
to
have
friends
and
relations
able
and
willing
to
remove
them
from
the
seat
of
contagion
.
Many
,
already
smitten
,
went
home
only
to
die
:
some
died
at
the
school
,
and
were
buried
quietly
and
quickly
,
the
nature
of
the
malady
forbidding
delay
.
While
disease
had
thus
become
an
inhabitant
of
Lowood
,
and
death
its
frequent
visitor
;
while
there
was
gloom
and
fear
within
its
walls
;
while
its
rooms
and
passages
steamed
with
hospital
smells
,
the
drug
and
the
pastille
striving
vainly
to
overcome
the
effluvia
of
mortality
,
that
bright
May
shone
unclouded
over
the
bold
hills
and
beautiful
woodland
out
of
doors
.
Its
garden
,
too
,
glowed
with
flowers
:
hollyhocks
had
sprung
up
tall
as
trees
,
lilies
had
opened
,
tulips
and
roses
were
in
bloom
;
the
borders
of
the
little
beds
were
gay
with
pink
thrift
and
crimson
double
daisies
;
the
sweetbriars
gave
out
,
morning
and
evening
,
their
scent
of
spice
and
apples
;
and
these
fragrant
treasures
were
all
useless
for
most
of
the
inmates
of
Lowood
,
except
to
furnish
now
and
then
a
handful
of
herbs
and
blossoms
to
put
in
a
coffin
.
