Montagu is shown to Lockwood is shown to Jane, in bed one
bed up a step-ladder bed, and sleeps only night, sleeps only
that leads through a fitfully, dreaming. fitfully, dreaming.
trap, and sleeps only He hears noises and She hears noises and
fitfully, dreaming. perceives a gleam of perceives a gleam of
He hears noises and light. He starts to light. She starts to
perceives a gleam of find the white-faced find the apparition
light He starts to apparition of his of her master's wife
find the white-faced host standing at his standing at her
apparition of his bedside, lighted bedside, lighted
hostess standing at candle in hand, his candle in hand, her
his bedside, lighted features convulsed features convulsed
candle in hand, her with diabolical rage. with diabolical rage.
features convulsed The harsh-voiced, The harsh-voiced,
with diabolical rage. Yorkshire peculiar female
The deep-voiced, dialect-speaking servant Jane first
Yorkshire man-servant, a sour encountered after
dialect-speaking old man (Charlotte having gone to the
peculiar man-servant Brontë's Method II., attics and through a
he sees by looking the altering of the trap-door to the
down the step-ladder age of a character roof.
through the trap. portrayed), comes
down a step-ladder
that vanished through
a trap.
In the literal extracts I now give the reader will perceive that in the
description of the bedside, candle-bearing apparition in _Jane Eyre_,
Charlotte Brontë followed Montagu almost word for word, and in the whole
staging of the midnight episode at the house of the inhospitable host in
_Wuthering Heights_ followed him entirely in outlining the story. Both
the _Wuthering Heights_ and _Jane Eyre_ versions give unequivocal
evidence of being refractions from Montagu conveyed through one brain
alone, the peculiar idiosyncrasy and elective sensitiveness of which are
undeniably recognizable as Charlotte Brontë's:--
MONTAGU. _Wuthering Heights._ _Jane Eyre._
A Night's Repose. A Night's Repose. A Night's Repose.
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