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r identity; her connection with yourself; be buried in oblivion: you are bound to impart them to no living being。 Place her in safety and fort: shelter her degradation with secrecy; and leave her。’

“I acted precisely on this suggestion。 My father and brother had not made my marriage known to their acquaintance; because; in the very first letter I wrote to apprise them of the union—having already begun to experience extreme disgust of its consequences; and; from the family character and constitution; seeing a hideous future opening to me—I added an urgent charge to keep it secret: and very soon the infamous conduct of the wife my father had selected for me was such as to make him blush to own her as his daughter…in…law。 Far from desiring to publish the connection; he became as anxious to conceal it as myself。

“To England; then; I conveyed her; a fearful voyage I had with such a monster in the vessel。 Glad was I when I at last got her to Thornfield; and saw her safely lodged in that third…storey room; of whose secret inner cabi she has now for ten years made a wild beast’s den—a goblin’s cell。 I had some trouble in finding an attendant for her; as it was necessary to select one on whose fidelity dependence could be placed; for her ravings would inevitably betray my secret: besides; she had lucid intervals of days—sometimes weeks—which she filled up with abuse of me。 At last I hired Grace Poole from the Grimbsy Retreat。 She and the surgeon; Carter (who dressed Mason’s wounds that night he was stabbed and worried); are the only two I have ever admitted to my confidence。 Mrs。 Fairfax may indeed have suspected something; but she could have gained no precise knowledge as to facts。 Grace has; on the whole; proved a good keeper; though; owing partly to a fault 

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