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Hitherto
I
have
recorded
in
detail
the
events
of
my
insignificant
existence
:
to
the
first
ten
years
of
my
life
I
have
given
almost
as
many
chapters
.
But
this
is
not
to
be
a
regular
autobiography
.
I
am
only
bound
to
invoke
Memory
where
I
know
her
responses
will
possess
some
degree
of
interest
;
therefore
I
now
pass
a
space
of
eight
years
almost
in
silence
:
a
few
lines
only
are
necessary
to
keep
up
the
links
of
connection
.
When
the
typhus
fever
had
fulfilled
its
mission
of
devastation
at
Lowood
,
it
gradually
disappeared
from
thence
;
but
not
till
its
virulence
and
the
number
of
its
victims
had
drawn
public
attention
on
the
school
.
Inquiry
was
made
into
the
origin
of
the
scourge
,
and
by
degrees
various
facts
came
out
which
excited
public
indignation
in
a
high
degree
.
The
unhealthy
nature
of
the
site
;
the
quantity
and
quality
of
the
children
's
food
;
the
brackish
,
fetid
water
used
in
its
preparation
;
the
pupils
'
wretched
clothing
and
accommodations
--
all
these
things
were
discovered
,
and
the
discovery
produced
a
result
mortifying
to
Mr.
Brocklehurst
,
but
beneficial
to
the
institution
.
Several
wealthy
and
benevolent
individuals
in
the
county
subscribed
largely
for
the
erection
of
a
more
convenient
building
in
a
better
situation
;
new
regulations
were
made
;
improvements
in
diet
and
clothing
introduced
;
the
funds
of
the
school
were
intrusted
to
the
management
of
a
committee
.
Mr.
Brocklehurst
,
who
,
from
his
wealth
and
family
connections
,
could
not
be
overlooked
,
still
retained
the
post
of
treasurer
;
but
he
was
aided
in
the
discharge
of
his
duties
by
gentlemen
of
rather
more
enlarged
and
sympathising
minds
:
his
office
of
inspector
,
too
,
was
shared
by
those
who
knew
how
to
combine
reason
with
strictness
,
comfort
with
economy
,
compassion
with
uprightness
.
The
school
,
thus
improved
,
became
in
time
a
truly
useful
and
noble
institution
.
I
remained
an
inmate
of
its
walls
,
after
its
regeneration
,
for
eight
years
:
six
as
pupil
,
and
two
as
teacher
;
and
in
both
capacities
I
bear
my
testimony
to
its
value
and
importance
.
During
these
eight
years
my
life
was
uniform
:
but
not
unhappy
,
because
it
was
not
inactive
.
I
had
the
means
of
an
excellent
education
placed
within
my
reach
;
a
fondness
for
some
of
my
studies
,
and
a
desire
to
excel
in
all
,
together
with
a
great
delight
in
pleasing
my
teachers
,
especially
such
as
I
loved
,
urged
me
on
:
I
availed
myself
fully
of
the
advantages
offered
me
.
In
time
I
rose
to
be
the
first
girl
of
the
first
class
;
then
I
was
invested
with
the
office
of
teacher
;
which
I
discharged
with
zeal
for
two
years
:
but
at
the
end
of
that
time
I
altered
.
Miss
Temple
,
through
all
changes
,
had
thus
far
continued
superintendent
of
the
seminary
:
to
her
instruction
I
owed
the
best
part
of
my
acquirements
;
her
friendship
and
society
had
been
my
continual
solace
;
she
had
stood
me
in
the
stead
of
mother
,
governess
,
and
,
latterly
,
companion
.
At
this
period
she
married
,
removed
with
her
husband
(
a
clergyman
,
an
excellent
man
,
almost
worthy
of
such
a
wife
)
to
a
distant
county
,
and
consequently
was
lost
to
me
.
From
the
day
she
left
I
was
no
longer
the
same
:
with
her
was
gone
every
settled
feeling
,
every
association
that
had
made
Lowood
in
some
degree
a
home
to
me
.
I
had
imbibed
from
her
something
of
her
nature
and
much
of
her
habits
:
more
harmonious
thoughts
:
what
seemed
better
regulated
feelings
had
become
the
inmates
of
my
mind
.
I
had
given
in
allegiance
to
duty
and
order
;
I
was
quiet
;
I
believed
I
was
content
:
to
the
eyes
of
others
,
usually
even
to
my
own
,
I
appeared
a
disciplined
and
subdued
character
.
But
destiny
,
in
the
shape
of
the
Rev.
Mr.
Nasmyth
,
came
between
me
and
Miss
Temple
:
I
saw
her
in
her
travelling
dress
step
into
a
post-chaise
,
shortly
after
the
marriage
ceremony
;
I
watched
the
chaise
mount
the
hill
and
disappear
beyond
its
brow
;
and
then
retired
to
my
own
room
,
and
there
spent
in
solitude
the
greatest
part
of
the
half-holiday
granted
in
honour
of
the
occasion
.
I
walked
about
the
chamber
most
of
the
time
.
I
imagined
myself
only
to
be
regretting
my
loss
,
and
thinking
how
to
repair
it
;
but
when
my
reflections
were
concluded
,
and
I
looked
up
and
found
that
the
afternoon
was
gone
,
and
evening
far
advanced
,
another
discovery
dawned
on
me
,
namely
,
that
in
the
interval
I
had
undergone
a
transforming
process
;
that
my
mind
had
put
off
all
it
had
borrowed
of
Miss
Temple
--
or
rather
that
she
had
taken
with
her
the
serene
atmosphere
I
had
been
breathing
in
her
vicinity
--
and
that
now
I
was
left
in
my
natural
element
,
and
beginning
to
feel
the
stirring
of
old
emotions
.
It
did
not
seem
as
if
a
prop
were
withdrawn
,
but
rather
as
if
a
motive
were
gone
:
it
was
not
the
power
to
be
tranquil
which
had
failed
me
,
but
the
reason
for
tranquillity
was
no
more
.
My
world
had
for
some
years
been
in
Lowood
:
my
experience
had
been
of
its
rules
and
systems
;
now
I
remembered
that
the
real
world
was
wide
,
and
that
a
varied
field
of
hopes
and
fears
,
of
sensations
and
excitements
,
awaited
those
who
had
courage
to
go
forth
into
its
expanse
,
to
seek
real
knowledge
of
life
amidst
its
perils
.
I
went
to
my
window
,
opened
it
,
and
looked
out
.
There
were
the
two
wings
of
the
building
;
there
was
the
garden
;
there
were
the
skirts
of
Lowood
;
there
was
the
hilly
horizon
.
My
eye
passed
all
other
objects
to
rest
on
those
most
remote
,
the
blue
peaks
;
it
was
those
I
longed
to
surmount
;
all
within
their
boundary
of
rock
and
heath
seemed
prison-ground
,
exile
limits
.
