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her feigned voice, her anxiety to conceal her features. But UGG Boots Clearance my
mind had been running on Grace Poole—that living enigma, that
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mystery of mysteries, as I considered her. I had never thought of
Mr. Rochester.
“Well,” said he, “what are you musing about? What does that
grave smile signify?”
“Wonder and Jordan Heels self-congratulation, sir. I have your permission to
retire now, I suppose?”
“No; stay a moment; and tell me what the people in the
drawing-room yonder are doing.”
“Discussing the gipsy, I daresay.”
“Sit down!—Let me hear what they said about me.”
“I had better not stay long, sir; Nike high heels it must be near eleven o’clock.
Oh, are you aware, Mr. Rochester, that a stranger has arrived here
since you left this morning?”
“A stranger!—no; who can it be? I expected no one; is he
“No; he said he had known you long, and that he could take Jordan heels the
liberty of installing himself here till you returned.”
“The devil he did! Did he give his name?”
“His name is Mason, sir; and he comes from the West Indies;
from Spanish Town, in Jamaica, I think.”
Mr. Rochester was standing near me; he had taken my hand, UGG Boots Discount as
if to lead me to a chair. As I spoke he gave my wrist a convulsive
grip; the smile on his lips froze: apparently a spasm caught his
“Mason!—the West Indies!” he said, in the tone one might
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“Mason!—the West Indies!” he reiterated; and he went over the
syllables three times, growing, in the intervals of speaking, whiter
than ashes: he hardly seemed to know what he was doing.
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