I had set that night. A dream
between _Wuthering out on my way home, had scarcely
Heights_ and _Jane with Joseph for a approached my ear
Eyre_. The trio will guide. The snow lay when it fled
be resumed in perfect yards deep in our affrighted.... There
sequence after road. We came to a was a demonia laugh
Montagu has rested a chapel.... Presently ... at my chamber
few bars in the the whole chapel door.... I thought
introduction. My resounded with the goblin laughter
reader will note with rappings and stood at my
sensational interest, counter-rappings; ... bedside.... Something
I am sure, that in at last, to my ... moaned. "Was that
both of Charlotte unspeakable relief, Grace Poole?" [the
Brontë's they awoke me.... thick-set servant]
introductions to the What ... had thought I.... There
appearance of the suggested the tumult? was a candle burning
candle-bearing, ... the branch of a outside.
frenzied, bedside fir-tree that touched
apparition, the my lattice as the
separate narrators blast wailed by.... Chapter XXV.
tell us that a gale
is blowing; that I dreamt again, if ... After I went to
they dreamed most possible still more bed I could not
disagreeably twice. disagreeably than sleep--a sense of
The first dream being before.... I heard anxious excitement
in each instance that the gusty wind, ... I depressed me. The
of journeying upon an thought I rose ... to gale still rising
unknown road, and the unhasp the casement. seemed to my ear to
second dream that of "I must stop [the fir muffle a ... doleful
an unknown ice-cold bough's teasing undersound.... During
little child (always sound]," I muttered, my first sleep I was
referred to in the knocking my hand following the
neuter "it"), which through the glass and windings of an
"wailed piteously" stretching an arm out unknown road; ...
and "clung" to the to seize the ... rain pelted me; I was
narrators in branch; instead of burdened with the
"terror," intense which my fingers charge of a little
horror being closed on the fingers child--a very small
accentuated by their of an ice-cold hand! creature, ... which
being unable to rid The intense horror of shivered in my cold
themselves of the nightmare came over arms and wailed
clinging, shivering me: I tried to draw piteously in my ear.
small "creature," as back my arm, but the
Charlotte Brontë hand clung to it, and I dreamt another
calls "it." The a most melancholy dream.... I still
"doleful" moaning and voice sobbed.... I carried the unknown
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