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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.