""Oh," returned the fairy，"that does not signify! Here is a talisman will remove all difficulties"; and she held out a pretty gold ring. "put it," she said，"on the fourth finger of my left hand，and I am yours，and you are mine; and we shall leave earth，and make our own heaven yonder." She nodded again at the moon. The ring，Adele，is in my breeches-pocket，under the disguise of a sovereign: but I mean soon to change it to a ring again."

"But what has mademoiselle to do with it? I don"t care for the fairy: you said it was mademoiselle you would take to the moon?"

"Mademoiselle is a fairy," he said，whispering mysteriously.

Whereupon I told her not to mind his badinage; and she，on her part，evinced a fund of genuine French scepticism: denominating Mr. Rochester "un vrai menteur," and assuring him that she made no account whatever of his "contes de fee," and that "du reste，il n"y avait pas de fees，et quand meme il y en avait": she was sure they would never appear to him，nor ever give him rings，or offer to live with him in the moon.

The hour spent at Millcote was a somewhat harassing one to me.

Mr. Rochester obliged me to go to a certain silk warehouse: there I was ordered to choose half a dozen dresses. I hated the business，I begged leave to defer it: no- it should be gone through with now. By dint of entreaties expressed in energetic whispers，I reduced the half-dozen to two: these，however，he vowed he would select himself.

With anxiety I watched his eye rove over the gay stores: he fixed on a rich silk of the most brilliant amethyst dye，and a superb pink satin.