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But the Tin-soldier took no notice, and seemed not to hear. 'Very well, wait till to-morrow! said the imp. When it was morning, and the children had got up, the Tin-soldier was put in the window; and whether it was the wind or the little black imp, I don't know, but all at once the window flew open and out fell the little Tin-soldier, head over heels, from the third-storey window!
At last there was a minute's pause, permitting the younger one to interpose: "But you are making a mistake, it is not I you mean. It must be my elder brother." "Oh! very likely. Where does your brother live?" "Just underneath." A minute later there was a knock at the third-storey door beneath; it was opened, and without even stopping to sit down, the visitor began: "You are Brandes? I am Lehmann.
Far from desiring to publish the connection, he became as anxious to conceal it as myself. "To England, then, I conveyed her; a fearful voyage I had with such a monster in the vessel. Glad was I when I at last got her to Thornfield, and saw her safely lodged in that third-storey room, of whose secret inner cabinet she has now for ten years made a wild beast's den a goblin's cell.
The large front chambers I thought especially grand: and some of the third-storey rooms, though dark and low, were interesting from their air of antiquity.
Something gurgled and moaned. Ere long, steps retreated up the gallery towards the third-storey staircase: a door had lately been made to shut in that staircase; I heard it open and close, and all was still. "Was that Grace Poole? and is she possessed with a devil?" thought I. Impossible now to remain longer by myself: I must go to Mrs. Fairfax.
The birth took place on the night of a new moon, down a narrow alley into which neither moon nor sun ever penetrated beyond the third-storey windows and that is why the parents were so long in discovering their child's miraculous gift.
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