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never   had   a   hope   inspired   by察  made   an   enduring   impression   on 

my  memory!I   say   I   explained察  or   tried   to   do   it察  how   I   had   only 

hoped that Mr Jarndyce察who had been the best of fathers to me察

might be able to afford some counsel and support to her。 But my 

mother   answered   no察  it   was   impossible察  no   one   could   help   her。 

Through the desert that lay before her察she must go alone。 

    ^My child察my child 院she said。 ^For the last time These kisses 

for the last time These arms upon my neck for the last time We 

shall   meet no  more。   To   hope   to   do   what   I   seek   to   do察  I   must  be 

what   I   have   been   so   long。   Such   is   my   reward   and   doom。   If   you 

hear of Lady Dedlock察brilliant察prosperous察and flattered察think of 

your     wretched       mother察    conscience´stricken察        underneath        that 

mask   Think   that   the   reality   is   in   her   suffering察  in   her   useless 

remorse察  in   her   murdering   within   her   breast   the   only   love   and 

truth of which it is capable And then forgive her察if you can察and 

cry to Heaven to forgive her察which it never can 院

    We held one another for a little space yet察but she was so firm察

that   she    took   my   hands   away察     and   put   them    back    against   my 

breast察and察with a last kiss as she held them there察released them察

and went from me into the wood。 I was alone察and察calm and quiet 

below me in the sun and shade察lay the old house察with its terraces 

and turrets察on which there had seemed to me to be such complete 

repose when I first saw it察but which now looked like the obdurate 

and unpitying watcher of my mother¨s misery。 



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    Stunned   as   I   was察  as   weak   and   helpless   at   first   as   I   had   ever 

been   in   my   sick   chamber察  the   necessity   of   guarding   against   the 

danger   of   discovery察  or   even   of   the   remotest   suspicion察  did   me 

service。   I   took   such  precautions   as   I   could   to   hide   from   Charley 

that I had been crying察and I constrained myself to think of every 

sacred      obligation    that    there   was    upon     me   to   be   careful    and 

collected。 It was not a little while before I could succeed察or could 

even restrain bursts of grief察but after an hour or so察I was better察

and   felt   that   I   might   return。   I   went   home   very   slowly察  and   told 

Charley察whom I found at the gate looking for me察that I had been 

tempted   to  extend my  walk   after  Lady  Dedlock   had   left me察  and 

that I was overtired察and would lie down。 Safe in my own room I 

read     the  letter。   I  clearly   derived     from   it!and      that   was   much 

then!that   I   had   not   been   abandoned   by   my   mother。   Her   elder 

and only sister察the godmother of my childhood察discovering signs 

of life in me when I had been laid aside as dead察had察in her stern 

sense   of   duty察  with   no   desire    or   willingness     that   I   should   live察

reared      me   in   rigid   secrecy察   and    had    never    again    beheld     my 

mother¨s   face   from   within   a   few   hours   of   my  birth。   So   strangely 

did   I  hold my  place in   this   world察  that察  until   within   a   short   time 

back察I had never察to my own mother¨s knowledge察breathed!had 

been buried!had never been endowed with life!had never borne 

a name。 When she had first seen me in the church察she had been 

startled察and   had  thought  of  what  would   have   been   like   me察  if  it 

had ever lived察and had lived on察but that was all察then。 

    What more the letter told me察needs not to be repeated here。 It 

has its own times and places in my story。 

    My first care was to burn what my mother had written察and to 

consume even its ashes。 I hope it may not appear very unnatural 



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or bad in me察that I then became heavily sorrowful to think I had 

ever been reared。 That I felt as if I knew it would have been better 

and happier for many people察if indeed I had never breathed。 That 

I had a terror of myself察as the danger and the possible disgrace of 

my     own    mother察    and    of  a   proud    family    name。     That    I  was    so 

confused   and   shaken察  as   to   be   possessed   by   a   belief   that   it   was 

right察  and   had been intended察  that  I   should   die   in   my   birth察  and 

that it was wrong察and not intended that I should be then alive。 

    These   are   the   real   feelings   that   I   had。   I   fell   asleep察  worn   out察

and when I awoke察I cried afresh  to  think   that  I   was back   in   the 

world察  with   my   load   of   trouble   for   others。   I   was   more   than   ever 

frightened of myself thinking anew of her察  against  whom I   was a 

witness察  of   the   owner   of   Chesney   Wold察  of   the   new   and   terrible 

meaning   of   the   old   words察  now   moaning   in   my   ear   like   a   surge 

upon the shore察 Your mother察Esther察was your disgrace察and you 

are   hers。   The   time   will   come!and   soon   enough!when   you   will 

understand   this   better察  will   feel   it   too察  as   no   one   save   a   woman 

can。 ̄ With them察those other words returned察 Pray daily that the 

sins    of   others    be    not   visited    upon     your    head。 ̄     I  could    not 

disentangle   all  that  was   about  me察and   I   felt  as  if  the   blame   and 

the shame were all in me察and the visitation had come down。 

    The day waned into a gloomy evening察overcast and sad察and I 

still contended with the same distress。 I went out alone察and察after 

walking a little in the park察watching the dark shades falling on the 

trees察  and   the   fitful   flight   of   the   bats察 which   sometimes   almost 

touched me察was attracted to the house for the first time。 Perhaps I 

might not have gone near it察if I had been in a stronger  frame   of 

mind。 As it was察I took the path that led close by it。 

    I   did  not  dare   to  linger  or  to   look   up察  but   I   passed   before   the 



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terrace garden with its fragrant odours察and its broad walks察and 

its   well´kept  beds   and  smooth  turf察  and   I   saw   how   beautiful   and 

grave it was察and how the old stone balustrades and parapets察and 

wide  flights   of  shallow  steps察  were  seamed   by   time   and   weather察

and how the trained moss and   ivy  grew  about  them察  and around 

the   old   stone   pedestal   of   the   sundial察  and   I   heard   the   fountain 

falling。    Then     the    way    went     by   long    lines   of   dark    windows察

diversified   by   turreted   towers察  and   porches察  of   eccentric   shapes察

where      old   stone   lions   and    grotesque      monsters      bristled    outside 

dens     of   shadow察     and    snarled    at   the   evening      gloom     over    the 

escutcheons        they    held    in  their    grip。   Thence      the   path    wound 

underneath         a   gateway察     and    through      a   courtyard      where      the 

principal entrance   was   I   hurried   quickly  on察  and by  the   stables 

where      none     but    deep    voices     seemed      to  be察  whether       in   the 

murmuring of the wind through t

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