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is more beautiful than useful察being priceless but small。 My Lady察

changing her position察sees the papers on the table!looks at them 

nearer!looks at them nearer still!asks impulsively此

    ^Who copied that拭院

   Mr Tulkinghorn stops short察surprised by my Lady¨s animation 

and her unusual tone。 

    ^Is it what you people call law´hand拭院she asks察looking full at 

him in her careless way again察and toying with her screen。 

    ^Not    quite。   Probably ̄!Mr        Tulkinghorn       examines     it  as  he 

speaks!^the legal character it has察was acquired after the original 

hand was formed。 Why do you ask拭院

    ^Anything to vary this detestable monotony。 O察go on察do 院

   Mr    Tulkinghorn       reads   again。   The   heat   is  greater察 my    Lady 

screens her face。 Sir Leicester dozes察starts up suddenly察and cries 

^Eh拭what do you say拭院

    ^I say I am afraid察院says Mr Tulkinghorn察who has risen hastily察

^that Lady Dedlock is ill。 ̄ 



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   ^Faint察院my Lady murmurs察with white lips察 only that察but it is 

like the faintness of death。 Don¨t speak to me。 Ring察and take me to 

my room 院

   Mr   Tulkinghorn   retires   into   another   chamber察  bells   ring察  feet 

shuffle    and    patter察  silence   ensues。    Mercury     at   last  begs   Mr 

Tulkinghorn to return。 

   ^Better now察院quoth Sir Leicester察  motioning  the   lawyer  to  sit 

down and read to him alone。 ^I have been quite alarmed。 I never 

knew     my    Lady    swoon     before。   But   the   weather     is  extremely 

trying!and she really has been bored to death down at our place 

in Lincolnshire。 ̄ 



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                                  Chapter 3 



                                 A Progress 



      have     a  great   deal   of  difficulty   in  beginning      to  write   my 

      portion   of   these   pages察  for   I   know   I   am   not   clever。   I   always 

I 

      knew     that。  I  can   remember察     when    I  was   a  very   little  girl 

indeed察  I   used   to   say   to   my   doll察  when   we   were   alone   together察

^Now Dolly察I am not clever察you know very well察and you must be 

patient with me察like a dear 院And so she used to sit propped up in 

a   great   armchair察    with   her   beautiful   complexion   and      rosy   lips察

staring at me!or not so much at me察I think察as at nothing!while 

I busily stitched away察and told her every one of my secrets。 

    My   dear   old   doll   I   was   such   a   shy   little   thing   that   I   seldom 

dared     to   open  my   lips察 and   never   dared     to  open   my   heart察   to 

anybody else。 It almost makes me cry to think what a relief it used 

to be to me察when I cam home from school of a day察to run upstairs 

to my room察and say察 O you dear faithful Dolly察I knew you would 

be expecting me 院and then to sit down on the floor察leaning on the 

elbow   of   her   great   chair察  and   tell   her   all   I   had   noticed   since   we 

parted。   I   had   always   rather   a   noticing   way!not   a   quick   way察  O 

no a silent way of noticing what passed before me察and thinking 

I   should like   to  understand   it   better。   I   have   not   by   any   means   a 

quick understanding。 When I love a person very tenderly indeed察

it seems to brighten。 But even that may be my vanity。 

    I was brought up察from my earliest remembrance!like some of 

the princesses in the fairy stories察only I was not charming!by my 

godmother。 At least I only knew her as such。 She was a good察good 



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woman   She   went   to   church   three   times   every   Sunday察  and   to 

morning       prayers    on   Wednesdays        and   Fridays察   and    to  lectures 

whenever        there    were    lectures察   and    never     missed。     She    was 

handsome察and if she had ever smiled察would have been I used to 

think like an angel!but she never smiled。 She was always grave 

and     strict。  She   was    so  very    good    herself察  I  thought察   that   the 

badness      of  other   people    made     her   frown    all  her   life。  I  felt  so 

different      from    her察   even     making      every    allowance       for   the 

differences between a child and a woman察I felt so poor察so trifling察

and   so   far   off察  that   I   never   could   be   unrestrained   with   her!no察

could never  even   love   her  as  I   wished。   It  made   me   very   sorry   to 

consider how good she was察and how unworthy of her I was察and I 

used ardently to hope that I might have a better heart察and I talked 

it   over   very   often   with   the   dear   old   doll察  but   I   never   loved   my 

godmother as I ought to have loved her察and as I felt I must have 

loved her if I had been a better girl。 

    This    made     me察  I  dare   say察  more    timid   and    retiring   than    I 

naturally   was察  and   cast   me   upon   Dolly   as   the   only   friend     with 

whom   I   felt   at   ease。   But   something   happened   when   I   was   still 

quite a little thing察that helped it very much。 

    I had never heard my mama spoken of。 I had never heard of my 

papa     either察  but   I  felt   more  interested    about   my   mama。       I  had 

never worn a black frock察that I could recollect。 I had never been 

shown my mama¨s grave。 I had never been told where it was。 Yet I 

had never been taught to pray for any relation but my godmother。 

I had more than once approached this subject of my thoughts with 

Mrs Rachael察our only servant察who took my light away when I was 

in bed another very good woman察but austere to me察and she had 

only said察 Esther察good night 院and gone away and left me。 



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    Although   there       were    seven    girls  at  the   neighbouring       school 

where   I   was   a   day   boarder察  and   although   they   called   me         little 

Esther   Summerson察  I   knew   none   of   them   at   home。   All   of   them 

were older than I察to be sure I was the youngest there by a good 

deal察but  there   seemed   to  be   some   other   separation   between   us 

besides   that察and   besides   their  being  far more   clever  than   I   was察

and knowing much more than I did。 One of them察in the first week 

of   my   going   to   the   school   I   remember   it   very   well察  invited   me 

home to a little party察to my great joy。 But my godmother wrote a 

stiff letter察declining for me察and I never went。 I never went out at 

all。 

    It   was   my   birthday。   There   were   holidays   at   school        on   other 

birthdays!none on mine。 There were rejoicings at home on other 

birthdays察  as   I   knew   from   what   I   heard   the   girls   relate   to   one 

another!there   were   none   on   mine。   My   birthday   was   the              most 

melancholy day at home察in the whole year。 

    I have mentioned察that察unless my vanity should deceive me as 

I   know   it   may察  for   I   may   be   very   vain察  without   suspecting   it! 

though indeed I don¨t察my comprehension is quickened when my 

affection     is。  My   disposition     is  very   affectionate察    and   p

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