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her mind again rally: at twelve o’clock that night she died。 I was not present to close her eyes; nor were either of her daughters。 They came to tell us the next morning that all was over。 She was by that time laid out。 Eliza and I went to look at her: Georgiana; who had burst out into loud weeping; said she dared not go。 There was stretched Sarah Reed’s once robust and active frame; rigid and still: her eye of flint was covered with its cold lid; her brow and strong traits wore yet the impress of her inexorable soul。 A strange and solemn object was that corpse to me。 I gazed on it with gloom and pain: nothing soft; nothing sweet; nothing pitying; or hopeful; or subduing did it inspire; only a grating anguish for her woes—not my loss—and a sombre tearless dismay at the fearfulness of death in such a form。

Eliza surveyed her parent calmly。 After a silence of some minutes she observed—

“With her constitution she should have lived to a good old age: her life was shortened by trouble。” And then a spasm constricted her mouth for an instant: as it passed away she turned and left the room; and so did I。 Neither of us had dropt a tear。

Chapter 22

Mr。 Rochester had given me but one week’s leave of absence: yet a month elapsed before I quitted Gateshead。 I wished to leave immediately after the funeral; but Georgiana entreated me to stay till she could get off to London; whither she was now at last invited by her uncle; Mr。 Gibson; who had e down to direct hi

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