PART THREE - A YOUNG WOMAN AT THORNFIELD
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
I return to Gateshead

I was so amazed that I could not speak for a few minutes. I had been poor all my life. Now, someone wanted to give me money and property! "Aunt, I never knew of this letter. Why?"
Mrs. Reed tried to sit up in bed, looking at me angrily. "I wrote to your uncle and told him you had died, died of fever at the Lowood School!" [-----1-----] "That was my revenge on you, child. My family always hated your father, for taking my sister away--and I always disliked you! YOu were always so angry and violent, such a bad child... but now I am dying... I thought you should know the truth," she said.
"[-----2-----], aunt," I said gently. "It is true I was angry at you, but I would have loved you, if you had let me. Forget it all, and kiss me now, dear aunt."
But she had disliked me for too many years, or she was ashamed at what she had done. [-----3-----] After a moment I left the room. She died that night, and no one at Gateshead missed her.

Vocabulary Focus

my revenge on you:我对你的报复。revenge后如接对象为人时用介词on，为物时用介词for。例如：1、Why do you take revenge on me?（你为何报复我？）2、I won't have any revenge for your irresponsibility.（我不会对你的不负责任进行任何报复。）