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“Voile; Monsieur Rochester; qui revient!”

I turned; and Miss Ingram darted forwards from her sofa: the others; too; looked up from their several occupations; for at the same time a crunching of wheels and a splashing tramp of horse…hoofs became audible on the wet gravel。 A post…chaise was approaching。

“What can possess him to e home in that style?” said Miss Ingram。 “He rode Mesrour (the black horse); did he not; when he went out? and Pilot was with him:… what has he done with the animals?”

As she said this; she approached her tall person and ample garments so near the window; that I was obliged to bend back almost to the breaking of my spine: in her eagerness she did not observe me at first; but when she did; she curled her lip and moved to another casement。 The post…chaise stopped; the driver rang the door…bell; and a gentleman alighted attired in travelling garb; but it was not Mr。 Rochester; it was a tall; fashionable…looking man; a stranger。

“How provoking!” exclaimed Miss Ingram: “you tiresome monkey!” (apostrophising Adèle); “who perched you up in the window to give false intelligence?” and she cast on me an angry glance; as if I were in fault。

Some parleying was audible in the hall; and soon the new…er entered。 He bowed to Lady Ingram; as deeming her the eldest lady present。

“It appears I e at an inopportune time; madam;” said he; “when my friend; Mr。 Rochester; is from home; but I arrive from a very long journey; and I think I may presume so far on old and intimate acquaintance as to instal myself here till he returns。”

His manner was polite; his accent; in speaking; struck me as being somewhat unusual;—not precisely foreign; but still not altogether English: his age might be about Mr。 Rochester’s;—between th

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