I mention that by her composite method of presenting characters, which Charlotte Brontë admitted to have employed, Dr. John Bretton, while often in the beginning representing Mr. Smith the publisher, becomes finally a representation of the Rev. Mr. Nicholls who married Miss Brontë.[74] So in _Jane Eyre_, St. John Rivers while in the main representing the Rev. Patrick Brontë, becomes associated temporarily with that priest I have called Charlotte Brontë's Brussels Fénélon. She tells us in _Villette_ that she broke off the seduction of visiting this priest and says:--"The probabilities are that had I visited ... at the ... day appointed, I might just now ... have been counting my beads in the cell of a ... convent...." Miss Brontë admits he had had great influence with her, and this fact and the testimony of her poem "Apostasy" just quoted show this priest and his admonitions were in her mind when she wrote the final scene between herself and St. John Rivers in _Jane Eyre_ (Chapter XXXV.). Therein, as in that poem and in _Wuthering Heights_, "Religion" and "Angels"[75] are set as being less to her than the vicinage of her lover. Indeed the India and the missionary life of _Jane Eyre_, and the marriage with St. John (see Chapter XXXIV.), may be said to have been in Miss Brontë's mind that life of religious consecration which in _Villette_ she owns to have been the likely result of her further listening to the advice of the priest, to whom she had given "the ... outline of my experience," as she terms it. Therefore it is interesting to observe that, as the woman in "Apostasy" suddenly hears the voice of her lover calling and says:-- "He calls--I come--my pulse scarce beats, My heart fails in my breast. Again that voice--how far away, How dreary sounds that tone! And I, methinks, am gone astray In trackless wastes and lone. "I fain would rest a little while: Where can I find a stay, Till dawn upon the hills shall smile, And show some trodden way?[76] I come! I come! in haste she said, 'Twas Walter's voice I heard!" Then up she sprang--but fell back, dead, His name her latest word. so in the scene in _Jane Eyre_: St. John ejaculates--