"Take me out!" was my cry. "These ... awful nights; I've never closed my lids--and oh!... "... Are you hurt? Have you seen I've been ... haunted, Nelly! something?" demanded Bessie [Tabitha]. But I begin to fancy [Tabitha]. you don't like me.... They have all turned to enemies; ... "Oh! I ... thought a ghost would _they_ have, the people _here_." come." Tossing about, she increased her "She has screamed on purpose," feverish bewilderment of declared Abbot [?].... "And what madness.... "Don't you see that a scream! If she had been in face?" she inquired, gazing pain one would have excused it, nervously at the mirror.... "Oh! but she only wanted to bring us Nelly [Tabitha], the room is all here: I know her naughty haunted! I'm afraid of being tricks." left alone...." ... Mrs. Reed [Aunt Branwell] I [Nelly Dean--Tabitha] came.... "Silence!" she attempted to steal to the door exclaimed; "this scene is ... but I was summoned back by a repulsive." I was a precocious piercing scream. actor in her eyes. She sincerely looked upon me [Charlotte] as a ... "As soon as ever I barred compound of virulent passions, the door," proceeded Catherine mean spirit, and dangerous [Charlotte Brontë], "utter duplicity.... I suppose I had a darkness overwhelmed me, and I species of fit: unconsciousness fell on the floor. I couldn't closed the scene.... The next explain ... how certain I felt thing I remembered is waking ... of having a fit, or going mad." with a feeling as if I had had a frightful nightmare ... "A sound sleep would do you agitation, uncertainty, and a good," said Nelly Dean--Tabitha predominant sense of terror Aykroyd. confused my faculties.... Bessie [Tabby] stood at the bed-foot with a basin in her hand. "Do you feel as if you could sleep, Miss?" asked Bessie [Tabitha Aykroyd] rather softly. For me [Charlotte] the watches of that long night passed in ghostly watchfulness; ear, eye, and mind were alike strained by dread, such dread as children only can feel.