PART FOUR - LIFE AT MOOR HOUSE
CHAPTER NINETEEN
Finding a Home

For three days and nights I lay in bed, tired from the awful experience at Thornfield. I hardly knew where I was. When I began to feel stronger, Hannah, the old lady, came to sit with me and told me all about the three people in the house. She had cared for them since they were children. Their family name was Rivers, and both their parents were dead. Their father, sadly, had died only three weeks before this. The girls were named Diana and Mary. They had no money and had to work as governesses. Their brother, St. John, worked at the church in the nearest village. [-----1-----]. The house I had found was called Moor House, and the Rivers family did not come here often.

Diana and Mary were very kind to me when I became stronger. [-----2-----]. He was young and very handsome. I knew that Diana and Mary wanted to know all about me, but they did not want to ask questions that would hurt me, so we did not talk of the past. But St. John asked me many questions. I only told him a little about myself. I said that after going to Lowood School, I became a governess for a rich family. Then an unfortunate event, that was not my fault, made me have to leave the house. That was all I would tell him. I offered to do any kind of work, such as teaching, sewing, or cleaning, so that [-----3-----]. St. John was very gald that I wanted to work, and promised to find me a job.

Vocabulary Focus

St. John：圣约翰。St.为Saint的缩略语，常放置人名或地名前，尤指经基督教会宣布的，例如牧师。