Endnotes

  1. Is that my governess? ↩

  2. Yes, to be sure. ↩

  3. The League of the Rats: fable by La Fontaine. ↩

  4. What news? what news? I pray you, speak. ↩

  5. Ladies, dinner is served!⁠ ⁠… I’m starved! ↩

  6. As an aside. ↩

  7. Come back soon, my friend, my dear Mademoiselle Jeanette. ↩

  8. That must mean⁠ ⁠… there is a present for me in it, and maybe for you, too, Mademoiselle. Monsieur has spoken of you: he asked me my governess’ name, and if she were small, rather thin and somewhat pale. I said yes, because it’s true, isn’t it, Mademoiselle? ↩

  9. There’s a present in your little trunk for Mademoiselle Eyre, isn’t there? ↩

  10. Presents. ↩

  11. Little trunk. ↩

  12. My box! my box! ↩

  13. Be quiet, child; do you understand? ↩

  14. Oh, heavens, how beautiful it is! ↩

  15. Little nun. ↩

  16. And I hold to it. ↩

  17. I must try it on⁠ ⁠… at once! ↩

  18. Does my dress not suit me?⁠ ⁠… and my slippers? and my stockings? I feel like dancing! ↩

  19. Thank you a thousand times for your kindness, Monsieur. ↩

  20. Mama acted just that way, didn’t she, Monsieur? ↩

  21. Just like this. ↩

  22. Deep passion. ↩

  23. Athlete’s figure. ↩

  24. Crunching. ↩

  25. My angel. ↩

  26. Male beauty. ↩

  27. Little girl. ↩

  28. What is it, Mademoiselle?⁠ ⁠… Your fingers are quivering, and your cheeks are red: red like cherries! ↩

  29. Out of fashion. ↩

  30. They’re changing. ↩

  31. At mama’s,⁠ ⁠… when people came, I followed them everywhere, to the drawing rooms and the bedrooms; often I watched the maids dress the ladies and arrange their hair, and it was so much fun; that’s the way one learns. ↩

  32. Yes, Mademoiselle; we haven’t eaten for five or six hours. ↩

  33. And what a shame [that would be]! ↩

  34. Could I take but one of these wonderful flowers, Mademoiselle? Only to complete my dress. ↩

  35. Pretty, but irregular. ↩

  36. Greetings, ladies. ↩

  37. Father character in tragedy and high comedy. ↩

  38. Too bad! ↩

  39. The tender passion. ↩

  40. Beware of this! ↩

  41. Monsieur Rochester is back! ↩

  42. The right opportunity. ↩

  43. Good evening. ↩

  44. Ready to love her little English mother. ↩

  45. Oh, how little comfort there will be for her! ↩

  46. A real liar. ↩

  47. Fairy-tales. ↩

  48. Fairies do not exist anyway, and even if they did: ↩

  49. In order to keep me in countenance. ↩

  50. And one stepped forth who, to look upon, was like a starlight night. ↩

  51. I weigh your thoughts in the balance of my wrath! and your deeds with the weight of my fury! ↩

  52. Still young. ↩