简爱 Jane39 - Chapter 10 A Conversation with Grace Poole

　　Jane 39 简爱

　　PART THREE - A YOUNG WOMAN AT THORNFIELD

　　CHAPTER TEN

　　A Conversation with Grace Poole

　　Now I was even more impatient to see Mr. Rochester, but he did not appear. When I was having tea with Mrs. Fairfax that afternoon, she said, "It's a good day for the master's journey."

　　"Journey!" I cried. "Where did he go?"

　　"He left after breakfast, to visit a family in a big house about sixteen miles away. This family has asked many people to stay there for a party that will last for a week. The ladies at these parties always like Mr. Rochester very much, so he may not come back for a while." "Who are the ladies that will be at this party?" I asked.

　　"There are three sisters, who are very pretty young ladies, and their friends, Blanche and Mary Ingram. But Blanche is the most beautiful of them all. I saw her once when she came to a Christmas party at Thornfield, six or seven years ago."

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