Джейн Эйр / Jane Eyre

If even this stranger had smiled and been good-humoured to me when I addressed him; if he had put off my offer of assistance gaily and with thanks, I should have gone on my way and not felt any vocation to renew inquiries; but the frown, the roughness of the traveller, set me at my ease; I retained my station when he waved to me to go, and announced:

�I cannot think of leaving you, sir, at so late an hour, in this solitary lane, till I see you are fit to mount your horse.’

He looked at me when I said this; he had hardly turned his eyes in my direction before.

�I should think you ought to be at home yourself,’ said he, �if you have a home in this neighbourhood; where do you come from?’

�From just below; and I am not at all afraid of being out late when it is moonlight; I will run over to Hay for you with pleasure, if you wish it; indeed, I am going there to post a letter.’

�You live just below – do you mean at that house with the battlements?’ pointing to Thornfield Hall, on which the moon cast a hoary gleam, bringing it out distinct and pale from the woods that, by contrast with the western sky, now seemed one mass of shadow.

�Yes, sir.’

�Whose house is it?’

�Mr. Rochester’s.’

�Do you know Mr. Rochester?’

�No, I have never seen him.’

�He is not resident, then?’

�No.’

�Can you tell me where he is?’

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Цитата из поэмы «Времена года» («Осень») шотландского поэта и драматурга Джеймса Томпсона (1700–1748).