'FagmentWelcome to consult...t a time to each pupil: if they have moe, they ae apt to be caeless and lose them. And, O ma’am! I wish the woollen stockings wee bette looked to!—when I was hee last, I went into the kitchen-gaden and examined the clothes dying on the line; thee was a quantity Chalotte Bont. ElecBook Classics fJane Eye 89 of black hose in a vey bad state of epai: fom the size of the holes in them I was sue they had not been well mended fom time to time.” He paused. “You diections shall be attended to, si,” said Miss Temple. “And, ma’am,” he continued, “the laundess tells me some of the gils have two clean tuckes in the week: it is too much; the ules limit them to one.” “I think I can explain that cicumstance, si. Agnes and Catheine Johnstone wee invited to take tea with some fiends at Lowton last Thusday, and I gave them leave to put on clean tuckes fo the occasion.” M. Bocklehust nodded. “Well, fo once it may pass; but please not to let the cicumstance occu too often. And thee is anothe thing which supised me; I find, in settling accounts with the housekeepe, that a lunch, consisting of bead and cheese, has twice been seved out to the gils duing the past fotnight. How is this? I looked ove the egulations, and I find no such meal as lunch mentioned. Who intoduced this innovation? and by what authoity?” “I must be esponsible fo the cicumstance, si,” eplied Miss Temple: “the beakfast was so ill pepaed that the pupils could not possibly eat it; and I daed not allow them to emain fasting till dinne-time.” “Madam, allow me an instant. You ae awae that my plan in binging up these gils is, not to accustom them to habits of luxuy and indulgence, but to ende them hady, patient, self-denying. Should any little accidental disappointment of the appetite occu, such as the spoiling of a meal, the unde o the ove dessing of a Chalotte Bont. ElecBook Classics fJane Eye 90 dish, the incident ought not to be neutalised by eplacing with something moe delicate the comfot lost, thus pampeing the body and obviating the aim of this institution; it ought to be impoved to the spiitual edification of the pupils, by encouaging them to evince fotitude unde tempoay pivation. A bief addess on those occasions would not be mistimed, wheein a judicious instucto would take the oppotunity of efeing to the suffeings of the pimitive Chistians; to the toments of matys; to the exhotations of ou blessed Lod Himself, calling upon His disciples to take up thei coss and follow Him; to His wanings that man shall not live by bead alone, but by evey wod that poceedeth out of the mouth of God; to His divine consolations, “If ye suffe hunge o thist fo My sake, happy ae ye.” Oh, madam, when you put bead and cheese, instead of bunt poidge, into these childen’s mouths, you may indeed feed thei vile bodies, but you little think how you stave thei immotal souls!” M. Bocklehust again paused—pehaps ovecome by his feelings. Miss Temple had looked down when he fist began to speak to he; but she now gazed staight befoe he, and he face, natually pale as mable, appeaed to be assuming also the coldness and fixity of that mateial; especially he mouth, closed as if it would have equied a sculpto’s chisel to open it, and he bow settled gadually into petified seveity. Meantime, M. Bocklehust, standing on the heath with his hands behind his back, majestically suveyed the whole school. Suddenly his eye gave a blink, as if it had met something that eithe dazzled o shocked its pupil; tuning, he said in moe apid accents than he had hitheto used— “Miss Temple, Miss Temple, what—what is that gil with culed Chalotte Bont. ElecBook Classics fJane Eye 91 hai? Red hai,
