A day or two afterwards, I But there was no answer!... I learned that Miss Temple, on called again--then a third, and returning to her own room at a fourth time! But still ... no dawn, had found me laid in a reply! Wondering at this little crib; my face against silence, ... I listened for that Helen Burn's shoulder, my arms hard breathing I knew so well. round her neck. I was asleep, But nothing--not a sound could I and Helen was--dead. hear! Alarmed, but unwilling to trust my fears, I felt for her hand. Oh, God! it was cold as ice, and rigid as stone! Wild with affright, ... I started up ... and rushed out to call the Superintendent [Miss Temple]. I found her preparing to come to us.... When we entered the chamber, we found no Agnes there! No; her spirit had fled, and all we saw was the lifeless body of a poor houseless girl. Another biographical passage occurs where Catherine Bell first sees the Miss Temple of "Lagrange's Manuscript," who herself, under the name of Ashton (Eshton),[59] is at times Miss Brontë, who took the name of the original of Miss Temple (Evans) for herself in the phase of Frances Evans Henri in _The Professor_, a work not published, we must note, till after Charlotte Brontë's death:-- "I love you, madam," I said. "Your name, I believe, is Catherine Bell, is it not?" "Kitty Bell, if you please, madam," I answered. "Kitty Bell at home, my dear, but here we must call you Catherine; for a school, you know, is where many forms must be observed. How old are you?" "I shall be ten next birthday, madam." "And when will that be?" "On the 23rd of April." "Shakespeare's Day, I declare!" The above is, of course, not in _Jane Eyre_. There is a stroke of sarcasm in the last sentence. It would appear that Currer Bell playfully had moved her birthday forward two days, in her private conversation with one from whom M. Sue had gleaned information--and this could be only M. Héger himself. Charlotte Brontë, as Lucy Snowe, in _Villette_, Chapter XLI., tells us that M. Paul Emanuel (M. Héger) said:--