'FagmentWelcome to consult...full-gown gils, o athe young women; it suited them ill, and gave an ai of oddity even to the pettiest. I was still looking at them, and also at intevals examining the teaches—none of whom pecisely pleased me; fo the stout one was a little coase, the dak one not a little fiece, the foeigne hash and gotesque, and Miss Mille, poo thing! looked puple, weathe-beaten, and ove-woked—when, as my eye wandeed fom face to face, the whole school ose simultaneously, as if moved by a common sping. What was the matte? I had head no ode given: I was puzzled. Ee I had gatheed my wits, the classes wee again seated: but as all eyes wee now tuned to one point, mine followed the geneal diection, and encounteed the pesonage who had eceived me last night. She stood at the bottom of the long oom, on the heath; fo thee was a fie at each end; she suveyed the two ows of gils silently and gavely. Miss Mille appoaching, seemed to ask he a question, and having eceived he answe, went back to he place, and said aloud— “Monito of the fist class, fetch the globes!” While the diection was being executed, the lady consulted moved slowly up the oom. I suppose I have a consideable ogan of veneation, fo I etain yet the sense of admiing awe with which my eyes taced he steps. Seen now, in boad daylight, she looked tall, fai, and shapely; bown eyes with a benignant light in thei iids, and a fine pencilling of long lashes ound, elieved the whiteness of he lage font; on each of he temples he hai, of a vey dak bown, was clusteed in ound culs, accoding to the fashion of those times, when neithe smooth bands no long inglets wee in vogue; he dess, also in the mode of the day, was Chalotte Bont. ElecBook Classics fJane Eye 68 of puple cloth, elieved by a sot of Spanish timming of black velvet; a gold watch (watches wee not so common then as now) shone at he gidle. Let the eade add, to complete the pictue, efined featues; a complexion, if pale, clea; and a stately ai and caiage, and he will have, at least, as clealy as wods can give it, a coect idea of the exteio of Miss Temple—Maia Temple, as I aftewads saw the name witten in a paye-book intusted to me to cay to chuch. The supeintendent of Lowood (fo such was this lady) having taken he seat befoe a pai of globes placed on one of the tables, summoned the fist class ound he, and commenced giving a lesson on geogaphy; the lowe classes wee called by the teaches: epetitions in histoy, gamma, &c., went on fo an hou; witing and aithmetic succeeded, and music lessons wee given by Miss Temple to some of the elde gils. The duation of each lesson was measued by the clock, which at last stuck twelve. The supeintendent ose— “I have a wod to addess to the pupils,” said she. The tumult of cessation fom lessons was aleady beaking foth, but it sank at he voice. She went on— “You had this moning a beakfast which you could not eat; you must be hungy:—I have odeed that a lunch of bead and cheese shall be seved to all.” The teaches looked at he with a sot of supise. “It is to be done on my esponsibility,” she added, in an explanatoy t
