Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë Chapter 27 Page 11

avoid fluctuations of feeling, and continual combats with recollections and associations, there is only one way — Ad�le must have a new governess, sir.”

“Oh, Ad�le will go to school — I have settled that already; nor do I mean to torment you with the hideous associations and recollections of Thornfield Hall — this accursed place — this tent of Achan — this insolent vault, offering the ghastliness of living death to the light of the open sky — this narrow stone hell, with its one real fiend, worse than a legion of such as we imagine.

Jane, you shall not stay here, nor will I. I was wrong ever to bring you to Thornfield Hall, knowing as I did how it was haunted. I charged them to conceal from you, before I ever saw you, all knowledge of the