CHAPTER XX 268
" 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.