Miss Temple，through all changes，had thus far.c continued superintendent of the seminary: to her instruction I owed the best part of my acquirements; her friendship and society had been my continual solace; she had stood me in the stead of mother，governess，and，latterly，panion. At this period she married，removed with her husband (a clergyman，an excellent man，almost worthy of such a wife) to a distant county，and consequently was lost to me.

From the day she left I was no longer the same: with her was gone every settled feeling，every association that had made Lowood in some degree a home to me. I had imbibed from her something of her nature and much of her habits: more harmonious thoughts: what seemed better regulated feelings had bee the inmates of my mind. I had given in allegiance to duty and order; I was quiet; I believed I was content: to the eyes of others，usually even to my own，I appeared a disciplined and subdued character.

But destiny，in the shape of the Rev. Mr. Nasmyth，came between me and Miss Temple: I saw her in her travelling dress step into a post-chaise，shortly after the marriage ceremony; I watched the chaise mount the hill and disappear beyond its brow; and then retired to my own room，and there spent in solitude the greatest part of the half-holiday granted in honour of the occasion.

I walked about the chamber most of the time. I imagined myself only to be regretting my loss，and thinking how to repair it; but when my reflections were concluded，and I looked up and found that the afternoon was gone，and evening far advanced，another discovery dawned on me，namely，that in the interval I had undergone a transforming process; that my mind had put off all it had borrowed of Miss Temple- or rather that she had taken with her the serene atmosphere I had been breathing in her vicinity- and that now I was left in my natural element，and beginning to feel the stirring of old emotions.