Chapter 2
I RESISTED all the way: a new thing for me, and a circumstance which greatly strengthened the bad opinion Bessie and Miss Abbot were dispod to entertain of me. The fact is, I was a trifle beside mylf; or rather out of mylf, as the French would say. I was conscious that a moment's mutiny had already rendered me liable to strange penaltics, and, like any other rebel slave, I felt resolved, in my desperation, to go all lengths.
'Hold her arms, Miss Abbot: she's like a mad cat.'
'For shame, for shame!' cried the lady's-maid. 'What shocking conduct, Miss Eyre, to strike a young gentleman, your benefactress's son! Your young master.'
'Master! How is he my master? Am I a rvant?'
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'No; you are less than a rvant, for you do nothing for your keep. There, sit down, and think over your wickedness.'
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They had got me by this time into the apartment indicated by Mrs Reed, and had thrust me upon a stool: my impul was to ri from it like a spring; their two pair of hands arrested me instantly.
'If you don't sit still, you must be tied down, ' said Bessie. 'Miss Abbot, lend me your garters; she would break mine directly.'
Miss Abbot turned to divest a stout leg of the necessary ligature. This preparation for bonds, and the additional ignominy it inferred, took a little of the excitement out of me.
'Don't take them off, ' I cried; 'I will not stir.'
In guarantee whereof, I attached mylf to my at by my hands.
'Mind you don't, ' said Bessie; and when she had ascertained that I was really subsiding, she looned her hold of me; then she and Miss Abbot stood with folded arms, looking darkly and doubtfully on my face, as incredulous of my sanity.
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'She never did so before, ' at last said Bessie, turning to the Abigail.
'But it was always in her, ' was the reply. 'I've told missis often my opinion about the child, and missis agreed with me. She's an underhand little thing: I never saw a girl of her age with so much cover.'
Bessie answered not; but ere long, addressing me, she said:
'You ought to be aware, miss, that you are under obligations to Mrs Reed: she keeps you: if she were to turn you off you would have to go to the poorhou.'
I had nothing to say to the words: they were not new to me: my very first recollections of existence included hints of the same kind. This reproach of my dependence had become a vague sing-song in my ear; very painful and crushing, but only half intelligible. Miss Abbot joined in:
'And you ought not to think yourlf on an equality with the Miss Reed and Master Reed, becau missis kindly allows you to be brought up with them. They will have a great deal of money and you will have none: it is your place to be humble, and to try to make yourlf agreeable to them.'
'What we tell you is for your good, ' added Bessie, in no harsh voice: 'you should try to be uful and pleasant, then, perhaps, you would have a home here; but if you become passionate and rude, missis will nd you away, I am sure.'
icbc 爱存不存 'Besides, ' said Miss Abbot, 'God will punish her: He might strike her dead in the midst of her tantrums, and then where would she go? Come, Bessie, we will leave her: I wouldn't have her heart for anything. Say your prayers, Miss Eyre, when you are by yourlf; for if you don't repent, something bad might be permitted to come down the chimney and fetch you away.' 国民教育毕业生>波特率
They went, shutting the door, and locking it behind them.
词根背单词 The red-room was a spare chabmer very ldom slept in: I might say never, indeed, unless when a chance influx of visitors at Gateshead-hall rendered it necessary to turn to account all the accommodation it contained: yet it was one of the largest and stateliest chambers in the mansion. A bed supported on massive pillars of mahogany, hung with curtains of deep red damask, stood out like a tabernacle in the centre, the two large wind
ows, with their blinds always drawn down, were half shrouded in festoons and falls of similar drapery; the carpet was red; the table at the foot of the bed was covered with a crimson cloth; the walls were a soft fawn colour, with a blush of pink in it; the wardrobe, the toilet-table, the chairs, were of darkly- polished old mahogany. Out of the deep surrounding shades ro high, and glared white, the piled-up mattress and pillows of the bed, spread with a snowy Marilles counterpane. Scarcely less prominent was an ample cushioned easy-chair near the head of the bed, also white, with a footstool before it, and looking, as I thought, like a pale throne.
This room was chill, becau it ldom had a fire; it was silent, becau remote from the nurry and kitchens; solemn, becau it was known to be so ldom entered. The houmaid alone came here on Saturdays, to wipe from the mirrors and the furniture a week's quiet dust; and Mrs Reed herlf, at far intervals, visited it to review the contents of a certain cret drawer in the wardrobe, where were stored divers parchments, her jewel-casket, and a miniature of her decead husband; and in tho last words lies the cret of the red- room — the spell which kept it so lonely in spite of its grandeur.
Mr Reed had been dead nine years: it was in this chamber he breathed his last; here he lay in state; hence his coffin was borne by the undertaker's men; and, since that day, a n of dreary concration had guarded it from frequent intrusion. provisions
