I left Gateshead yesterday: and if you can get ready, Miss, I should like to take you back with me early to-morrow morning." "Yes, Robert, I shall be ready: it seems to me that I ought to go." "I think so too, Miss.

Bessie said she was sure you would not refuse: but I suppose you will have to ask leave before you can get off ?" "Yes; and I will do it now;" and having directed him to the servants' hall, and recommended him to the care of John's wife, and the attentions of John himself, I went in search of Mr.Rochester.
He was not in any of the lower rooms; he was not in the yard, the stables, or the grounds.

I asked Mrs.Fairfax if she had seen him;--yes: she believed he was playing billiards with Miss Ingram.

To the billiard- room I hastened: the click of balls and the hum of voices resounded thence; Mr.Rochester, Miss Ingram, the two Misses Eshton, and their admirers, were all busied in the game.

It required some courage to disturb so interesting a party; my errand, however, was one I could not defer, so I approached the master where he stood at Miss Ingram's side.
She turned as I drew near, and looked at me haughtily: her eyes seemed to demand, "What can the creeping creature want now ?" and when I said, in a low voice, "Mr.Rochester," she made a movement as if tempted to order me away.