Catherine (Charlotte) relates Jane (Charlotte) relates her
her fears of the locked room: fears of the locked room: How
How she thought it haunted; she she thought it haunted; she
showed fear of the mirror, and showed fear of the mirror, and
describes excitedly to Mrs. Dean describes excitedly to Bessie
(Tabitha) her terrifying (Tabitha) her terrifying
sensations previous to her sensations previous to her
losing consciousness, and how losing consciousness. She
she supposed she must supposed she must immediately
immediately have had a species have had a species of fit.
of fit.
Mrs. Dean (Tabitha) suggests Bessie (Tabitha) suggests sleep
sleep to Catherine (Charlotte to Jane (Charlotte Brontë).
Brontë).
Mrs. Dean (Tabitha) believes Bessie (Tabitha) believes that
that to see the apparition of a the apparition of a child is a
child is a sign of calamity sign of calamity having befallen
having befallen some one near some one near akin. Jane dreams
akin. One day Mrs. Dean sees a of a child-apparition, and fears
child-apparition, and fears it it may be a sign of calamity,
may be a sign of calamity to and the day following Bessie's
Catherine's (Charlotte's) husband brings word of the
brother, Hindley Earnshaw disgrace of John Reed (Branwell
(Branwell Brontë). He is really Brontë, Charlotte's brother).
in disgrace.
Catherine falls in love with Jane falls in love with a
a morose, "sallow-cheeked" morose, "olive-cheeked"
individual with deep eyes, that individual with deep eyes, that
have a singular expression, have a singular expression,
which makes the narrator which makes the narrator
associate "hell's light" with associate "hell's light" with
them. He has a handsome, erect them. He has a handsome, erect
carry, but is rather negligent carry, but is rather negligent
in his apparel. His speech is in his apparel. His speech is
abrupt. (His name is abrupt. (His name is Rochester.)
Heathcliffe.)
But Catherine loved him, and he But Jane loved him, and he loved
loved Catherine. Indeed, Jane. Indeed, Jane likens
Catherine likens themselves to a themselves to a cloven tree,
cloven tree by saying that which is one at the root, but
whosoever would come between divided by storm. Thus she
them to divide them would meet believes in the "twin-soul" or
the fate of Mïlo, who, of the elective affinities, and
course, endeavoured to drive says of Rochester:--
asunder a cloven tree held
firmly at its base, and was
himself trapped by it for his
pains. Thus she believes in the
"twin-soul" or the elective
affinities, and says:--
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