Pride and Prejudice (Clandestine Classics) (56 page)

BOOK: Pride and Prejudice (Clandestine Classics)

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“What! what!” he cried. “Did she say that to me? Did you hear her, Eliza and Georgiana? Won’t I tell Mama? but first—”

He ran headlong at me. I felt him grasp my hair and my shoulder, he had closed with a desperate thing. I really saw in him a tyrant, a murderer. I felt a drop or two of blood from my head trickle down my neck, and was sensible of somewhat pungent suffering. These sensations for the time predominated over fear, and I received him in frantic sort. I don’t very well know what I did with my hands, but he called me “Rat! Rat!” and bellowed out aloud. Aid was near him. Eliza and Georgiana had run for Mrs Reed, who was gone upstairs, she now came upon the scene, followed by Bessie and her maid Abbot. We were parted. I heard the words—

“Dear! dear! What a fury to fly at Master John!”

“Did ever anybody see such a picture of passion!”

Then Mrs Reed subjoined, “Take her away to the red room, and lock her in there.” Four hands were immediately laid upon me, and I was borne upstairs.

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