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Chapter 3

The next thing I remember is; waking up with a feeling as if I had had a frightful nightmare; and seeing before me a terrible red glare; crossed with thick black bars。 I heard voices; too; speaking with a hollow sound; and as if muffled by a rush of wind or water: agitation; uncertainty; and an all…predominating sense of terror confused my faculties。 Ere long; I became aware that some one was handling me; lifting me up and supporting me in a sitting posture; and that more tenderly than I had ever been raised or upheld before。 I rested my head against a pillow or an arm; and felt easy。

In five minutes more the cloud of bewilderment dissolved: I knew quite well that I was in my own bed; and that the red glare was the nursery fire。 It was night: a candle burnt on the table; Bessie stood at the bed…foot with a basin in her hand; and a gentleman sat in a chair near my pillow; leaning over me。

I felt an inexpressible relief; a soothing conviction of protection and security; when I knew that there was a stranger in the room; an individual not belonging to Gateshead。; and not related to Mrs。 Reed。 Turning from Bessie (though her presence was far less obnoxious to me than that of Abbot; for instance; would have been); I scrutinised the face of the gentleman: I knew him; it was Mr。 Lloyd; an apothecary; sometimes called in by Mrs。 Reed when the servants were ailing: for herself and the children she employed a physician。

“Well; who am I?” he asked。

I pronounced his name; offering him at the same time my hand: he took it; smiling and saying; “We shall do very well by…and…by。” Then he laid me down; and addressing Bessie; charged her to be very careful that I was not disturbed during the night。 Having given some further directions; and

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