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" You thought ! you thought ! Yes , it makes me impatient to hear you : but , however , you have suffered , and are likely to suffer enough for not taking my advice ; so I ' ll say no more . Carter -- hurry ! -- hurry ! The sun will soon rise , and I must have him off ."
" Directly , sir ; the shoulder is just bandaged . I must look to this other wound in the arm : she has had her teeth here too , I think ."
" She sucked the blood : she said she ' d drain my heart ," said Mason .
I saw Mr . Rochester shudder : a singularly marked expression of disgust , horror , hatred , warped his countenance almost to distortion ; but he only said -
" Come , be silent , Richard , and never mind her gibberish : don ' t repeat it ." " I wish I could forget it ," was the answer .
" You will when you are out of the country : when you get back to Spanish Town , you may think of her as dead and buried -- or rather , you need not think of her at all ."
" Impossible to forget this night !"
" It is not impossible : have some energy , man . You thought you were as dead as a herring two hours since , and you are all alive and talking now . There ! -- Carter has done with you or nearly so ; I ' ll make you decent in a trice . Jane " ( he turned to me for the first time since his re-entrance ), " take this key : go down into my bedroom , and walk straight forward into my dressing-room : open the top drawer of the wardrobe and take out a clean shirt and neck-handkerchief : bring them here ; and be nimble ."
I went ; sought the repository he had mentioned , found the articles named , and returned with them .