Mr. Rochester that night was absent from home; nor was he yet returned: business had called him to a small estate of two or three farms he possessed thirty miles off--business it was requisite he should settle in person, previous to his meditated departure from England.
Quel giorno il signor Rochester s'era assentato e non era ancora tornato; i suoi affari lo avevano chiamato in una delle sue terre, distante una trentina di miglia, della quale doveva occuparsi prima di lasciare l'Inghilterra.