"And who talks of error now? I scarcely think the notion that flittered across my brain was an error. I believe it was an inspiration rather than a temptation: it was very genial，very soothing- I know that. Here it es again! It is no devil，I assure you; or if it be，it has put on the robes of an angel of light. I think I must admit so fair a guest when it asks entrance to my heart."

"Distrust it，sir; it is not a true angel."

"Once more，how do you know? By what instinct do you pretend to distinguish between a fallen seraph of the abyss and a messenger from the eternal throne- between a guide and a seducer?"

"I judged by your countenance，sir，which was troubled when you said the suggestion had returned upon you. I feel sure it will work you more misery if you listen to it."

"Not at all- it bears the most gracious message in the world: for the rest，you are not my conscience-keeper，so don"t make yourself uneasy. Here，e in，bonny wanderer!"

He said this as if he spoke to a vision，viewless to any eye but his own; then，folding his arms，which he had half extended，on his chest，he seemed to enclose in their embrace the invisible being.

"Now," he continued，again addressing me，"I have received the pilgrim- a disguised deity，as I verily believe. Already it has done me good: my heart was a sort of charnel; it will now be a shrine."

"To speak truth，sir，I don"t understand you at all: I cannot keep up the conversation，because it has got out of my depth. Only one thing，I know: you said you were not as good as you should like to be，and that you regretted your own imperfection;- one thing I can prehend: you intimated that to have a sullied memory was a perpetual bane. It seems to me，that if you tried hard，you would in time find it possible to bee what you yourself would approve; and that if from this day you began with resolution to correct your thoughts and actions，you would in a few years have laid up a new and stainless store of recollections，to which you might revert with pleasure."

"Justly thought; rightly said，Miss Eyre; and，at this moment，I am paving hell with energy."