简爱 Jane43 - Chapter 12 The Gypsy

　　Jane 43 简爱

　　PART THREE - A YOUNG WOMAN AT THORNFIELD

　　CHAPTER TWELVE

　　The Gypsy

　　Soon after Mr. Mason had met the other guests, a servant came into the sitting room and told them that an old gypsy woman had also come. She was supposed to be a fortune-teller. All the ladies were very excited and wanted to ask her their fortunes. Miss Ingram was first, and spent fifteen minutes with the old gypsy woman in the library. She came back looking angry.

　　"This is ridiculous! How can you people believe in that sort of thing?" I wondered if the fortune teller had told her something she did not like. Next, three young ladies went in together, and came back amazed.

　　"She's ugly, dirty, and old," they cried, "but she knows everything about us, everything!" Suddenly the servant entered the room again.

　　"Excuse me, Miss Eyre," he said to me. "The gypsy woman knows you are here. She will not leave the house until she sees you."