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have you learnt French?”

“Yes; Bessie; I can both read it and speak it。”

“And you can work on muslin and canvas?”

“I can。”

“Oh; you are quite a lady; Miss Jane! I knew you would be: you will get on whether your relations notice you or not。 There was something I wanted to ask you。 Have you ever heard anything from your father’s kinsfolk; the Eyres?”

“Never in my life。”

“Well; you know Missis always said they were poor and quite despicable: and they may be poor; but I believe they are as much gentry as the Reeds are; for one day; nearly seven years ago; a Mr。 Eyre came to Gateshead and wanted to see you; Missis said you were it school fifty miles off; he seemed so much disappointed; for he could not stay: he was going on a voyage to a foreign country; and the ship was to sail from London in a day or tan; and I believe he was your father’s brother。”

“What foreign country was he going to; Bessie?”

“An island thousands of miles off; where they make wine—the butler did tell me—”

“Madeira?” I suggested。

“Yes; that is it—that is the very word。”

“So he went?”

“Yes; he did not stay many minutes in the house: Missis was very high with him; she called him afterwards a ‘sneaking tradesman。’ My Robert believes he was a wine…merchant。”

“Very likely;” I returned; “or perhaps clerk or agent to a wine… merchant。”

Bessie and I conversed about old times an hour longer; and then she was obliged to le

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