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" Yes , that is it -- that is the very word ."
" So he went ?"
" Yes ; he did not stay many minutes in the house : Missis was very high with him ; she called him afterwards a ' sneaking tradesman .' My Robert believes he was a wine-merchant ."
" Very likely ," I returned ; " or perhaps clerk or agent to a wine-merchant ."
Bessie and I conversed about old times an hour longer , and then she was obliged to leave me : I saw her again for a few minutes the next morning at Lowton , while I was waiting for the coach . We parted finally at the door of the Brocklehurst Arms there : each went her separate way ; she set off for the brow of Lowood Fell to meet the conveyance which was to take her back to Gateshead , I mounted the vehicle which was to bear me to new duties and a new life in the unknown environs of Millcote .