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1We crowded round, and over Miss Cathy's head I had a peep at a dirty, ragged, black-haired child; big enough both to
2walk and talk: indeed, its face looked older than Catherine's; yet when it was set on its feet, it only stared round,
3and repeated over and over again some gibberish that nobody could understand. I was frightened, and Mrs. Earnshaw was
4ready to fling it out of doors: she did fly up, asking how he could fashion to bring that gipsy brat into the house,
5when they had their own bairns to feed and fend for? What he meant to do with it, and whether he were mad? The master
6tried to explain the matter; but he was really half dead with fatigue, and all that I could make out, amongst her
7scolding, was a tale of his seeing it starving, and houseless, and as good as dumb, in the streets of Liverpool, where
8he picked it up and inquired for its owner. Not a soul knew to whom it belonged, he said; and his money and time being
9both limited, he thought it better to take it home with him at once, than run into vain expenses there: because he was
10determined he would not leave it as he found it. Well, the conclusion was, that my mistress grumbled herself calm; and
11Mr. Earnshaw told me to wash it, and give it clean things, and let it sleep with the children. Hindley and Cathy
12contented themselves with looking and listening till peace was restored: then, both began searching their father's
13pockets for the presents he had promised them. The former was a boy of fourteen, but when he drew out what had been a
14fiddle, crushed to morsels in the great-coat, he blubbered aloud; and Cathy, when she learned the master had lost her
15whip in attending on the stranger, showed her humour by grinning and spitting at the stupid little thing; earning for
16her pains a sound blow from her father, to teach her cleaner manners. They entirely refused to have it in bed with them,
17or even in their room; and I had no more sense, so I put it on the landing of the stairs, hoping it might be gone on the
18morrow. By chance, or else attracted by hearing his voice, it crept to Mr. Earnshaw's door, and there he found it on
19quitting his chamber. Inquiries were made as to how it got there; I was obliged to confess, and in recompense for my
20cowardice and inhumanity was sent out of the house. This was Heathcliff's first introduction to the family. On coming
21back a few days afterwards (for I did not consider my banishment perpetual), I found they had christened him
22"Heathcliff": it was the name of a son who died in childhood, and it has served him ever since, both for Christian and
23surname. Miss Cathy and he were now very thick; but Hindley hated him: and to say the truth I did the same; and we
24plagued and went on with him shamefully: for I wasn't reasonable enough to feel my injustice, and the mistress never put
25in a word on his behalf when she saw him wronged. He seemed a sullen, patient child; hardened, perhaps, to
26ill-treatment: he would stand Hindley's blows without winking or shedding a tear, and my pinches moved him only to draw
27in a breath and open his eyes, as if he had hurt himself by accident, and nobody was to blame. This endurance made old
28Earnshaw furious, when he discovered his son persecuting the poor fatherless child, as he called him. He took to
29Heathcliff strangely, believing all he said (for that matter, he said precious little, and generally the truth), and
30petting him up far above Cathy, who was too mischievous and wayward for a favourite. So, from the very beginning, he
31bred bad feeling in the house; and at Mrs. Earnshaw's death, which happened in less than two years after, the young
32master had learned to regard his father as an oppressor rather than a friend, and Heathcliff as a usurper of his
33parent's affections and his privileges; and he grew bitter with brooding over these injuries. I sympathised a while; but
34when the children fell ill of the measles, and I had to tend them, and take on me the cares of a woman at once, I
35changed my idea. Heathcliff was dangerously sick; and while he lay at the worst he would have me constantly by his
36pillow: I suppose he felt I did a good deal for him, and he hadn't wit to guess that I was compelled to do it. However,
37I will say this, he was the quietest child that ever nurse watched over. The difference between him and the others
38forced me to be less partial. Cathy and her brother harassed me terribly: he was as uncomplaining as a lamb; though
39hardness, not gentleness, made him give little trouble. He got through, and the doctor affirmed it was in a great
40measure owing to me, and praised me for my care. I was vain of his commendations, and softened towards the being by
41whose means I earned them, and thus Hindley lost his last ally: still I couldn't dote on Heathcliff, and I wondered
42often what my master saw to admire so much in the sullen boy; who never, to my recollection, repaid his indulgence by
43any sign of gratitude. He was not insolent to his benefactor, he was simply insensible; though knowing perfectly the
44hold he had on his heart, and conscious he had only to speak and all the house would be obliged to bend to his wishes.
45As an instance, I remember Mr. Earnshaw once bought a couple of colts at the parish fair, and gave the lads each one.
46Heathcliff took the handsomest, but it soon fell lame, and when he discovered it, he said to Hindley-- "You must
47exchange horses with me: I don't like mine; and if you won't I shall tell your father of the three thrashings you've
48given me this week, and show him my arm, which is black to the shoulder." Hindley put out his tongue, and cuffed him
49over the ears. "You'd better do it at once," he persisted, escaping to the porch (they were in the stable): "you will
50have to: and if I speak of these blows, you'll get them again with interest." "Off, dog!" cried Hindley, threatening him
51with an iron weight used for weighing potatoes and hay. "Throw it," he replied, standing still, "and then I'll tell how
52you boasted that you would turn me out of doors as soon as he died, and see whether he will not turn you out directly."
53Hindley threw it, hitting him on the breast, and down he fell, but staggered up immediately, breathless and white; and,
54had not I prevented it, he would have gone just so to the master, and got full revenge by letting his condition plead
55for him, intimating who had caused it. "Take my colt, Gipsy, then!" said young Earnshaw. "And I pray that he may break
56your neck: take him, and be damned, you beggarly interloper! and wheedle my father out of all he has: only afterwards
57show him what you are, imp of Satan.--And take that, I hope he'll kick out your brains!" Heathcliff had gone to loose
58the beast, and shift it to his own stall; he was passing behind it, when Hindley finished his speech by knocking him
59under its feet, and without stopping to examine whether his hopes were fulfilled, ran away as fast as he could. I was
60surprised to witness how coolly the child gathered himself up, and went on with his intention; exchanging saddles and
61all, and then sitting down on a bundle of hay to overcome the qualm which the violent blow occasioned, before he entered
62the house. I persuaded him easily to let me lay the blame of his bruises on the horse: he minded little what tale was
63told since he had what he wanted. He complained so seldom, indeed, of such stirs as these, that I really thought him not
64vindictive: I was deceived completely, as you will hear.
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