Chapter 38 READER, I married him. A quiet wedding we had: he and I, the parson and clerk, were alone present....
Chapter 37 THE manor-house of Ferndean was a building of considerable antiquity, moderate size, and no architectur...
Chapter 36 THE daylight came. I rose at dawn. I busied myself for an hour or two with arranging my things in...
Chapter 35 HE did not leave for Cambridge the next day, as he had said he would. He deferred his departure a...
Chapter 34 IT was near Christmas by the time all was settled: the season of general holiday approached. I now ...
Chapter 33 WHEN Mr St John went, it was beginning to snow; the whirling storm continued all night. The next da...
Chapter 32 I CONTINUED the labours of the village school as actively and faithfully as I could. It was truly h...
Chapter 31 MY home, then — when I at last find a home — is a cottage; a little room with whitewashed walls...
Chapter 30 THE more I knew of the inmates of Moor House, the better I liked them. In a few days I had so f...
Chapter 29 THE recollection of about three days and nights succeeding this is very dim in my mind. I can recal...
Chapter 28 Two days are passed. It is a summer evening; the coachman has set me down at a place called Whitcr...
Chapter 27 SOME time in the afternoon I raised my head, and looking round and seeing the western sun gilding t...
Chapter 26 SOPHIE came at seven to dress me: she was very long indeed in accomplishing her task; so long that...
Chapter 25 THE month of courtship had wasted: its very last hours were being numbered. There was no putting off...
Chapter 24 As I rose and dressed, I thought over what had happened, and wondered if it were a dream. I could...
Chapter 23 A SPLENDID Midsummer shone over England: skies so pure, suns so radiant as were then seen in long s...
Chapter 22 MR ROCHESTER had given me but one week's leave of absence: yet a month elapsed before I quitted Gat...
Chapter 21 PRESENTIMENTS are strange things! and so are sympathies; and so are signs, and the three combined mak...
Chapter 20 I HAD forgotten to draw my curtain, which l usually did, and also to let down my window-blind. The...
Chapter 19 THE library looked tranquil enough as I entered it, and the sibyl — if sibyl she were — was seat...
