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1Catherine loved it too: but she said it sounded sweetest at the top of the steps, and she went up in the dark: I
2followed. They shut the house door below, never noting our absence, it was so full of people. She made no stay at the
3stairs'-head, but mounted farther, to the garret where Heathcliff was confined, and called him. He stubbornly declined
4answering for a while: she persevered, and finally persuaded him to hold communion with her through the boards. I let
5the poor things converse unmolested, till I supposed the songs were going to cease, and the singers to get some
6refreshment: then I clambered up the ladder to warn her. Instead of finding her outside, I heard her voice within. The
7little monkey had crept by the skylight of one garret, along the roof, into the skylight of the other, and it was with
8the utmost difficulty I could coax her out again. When she did come, Heathcliff came with her, and she insisted that I
9should take him into the kitchen, as my fellow-servant had gone to a neighbour's, to be removed from the sound of our
10"devil's psalmody," as it pleased him to call it. I told them I intended by no means to encourage their tricks: but as
11the prisoner had never broken his fast since yesterday's dinner, I would wink at his cheating Mr. Hindley that once. He
12went down: I set him a stool by the fire, and offered him a quantity of good things: but he was sick and could eat
13little, and my attempts to entertain him were thrown away. He leant his two elbows on his knees, and his chin on his
14hands, and remained rapt in dumb meditation. On my inquiring the subject of his thoughts, he answered gravely--"I'm
15trying to settle how I shall pay Hindley back. I don't care how long I wait, if I can only do it at last. I hope he will
16not die before I do!" "For shame, Heathcliff!" said I. "It is for God to punish wicked people; we should learn to
17forgive." "No, God won't have the satisfaction that I shall," he returned. "I only wish I knew the best way! Let me
18alone, and I'll plan it out: while I'm thinking of that I don't feel pain." But, Mr. Lockwood, I forget these tales
19cannot divert you. I'm annoyed how I should dream of chattering on at such a rate; and your gruel cold, and you nodding
20for bed! I could have told Heathcliff's history, all that you need hear, in half a dozen words. Thus interrupting
21herself, the housekeeper rose, and proceeded to lay aside her sewing; but I felt incapable of moving from the hearth,
22and I was very far from nodding. "Sit still, Mrs. Dean," I cried; "do sit still another half-hour. You've done just
23right to tell the story leisurely. That is the method I like; and you must finish it in the same style. I am interested
24in every character you have mentioned, more or less." "The clock is on the stroke of eleven, sir." "No matter--I'm not
25accustomed to go to bed in the long hours. One or two is early enough for a person who lies till ten." "You shouldn't
26lie till ten. There's the very prime of the morning gone long before that time. A person who has not done one-half his
27day's work by ten o'clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone." "Nevertheless, Mrs. Dean, resume your chair;
28because to-morrow I intend lengthening the night till afternoon. I prognosticate for myself an obstinate cold, at
29least." "I hope not, sir. Well, you must allow me to leap over some three years; during that space Mrs. Earnshaw--" "No,
30no, I'll allow nothing of the sort! Are you acquainted with the mood of mind in which, if you were seated alone, and the
31cat licking its kitten on the rug before you, you would watch the operation so intently that puss's neglect of one ear
32would put you seriously out of temper?" "A terribly lazy mood, I should say." "On the contrary, a tiresomely active one.
33It is mine, at present; and, therefore, continue minutely. I perceive that people in these regions acquire over people
34in towns the value that a spider in a dungeon does over a spider in a cottage, to their various occupants; and yet the
35deepened attraction is not entirely owing to the situation of the looker-on. They do live more in earnest, more in
36themselves, and less in surface, change, and frivolous external things. I could fancy a love for life here almost
37possible; and I was a fixed unbeliever in any love of a year's standing. One state resembles setting a hungry man down
38to a single dish, on which he may concentrate his entire appetite and do it justice; the other, introducing him to a
39table laid out by French cooks: he can perhaps extract as much enjoyment from the whole; but each part is a mere atom in
40his regard and remembrance." "Oh! here we are the same as anywhere else, when you get to know us," observed Mrs. Dean,
41somewhat puzzled at my speech. "Excuse me," I responded; "you, my good friend, are a striking evidence against that
42assertion. Excepting a few provincialisms of slight consequence, you have no marks of the manners which I am habituated
43to consider as peculiar to your class. I am sure you have thought a great deal more than the generality of servants
44think. You have been compelled to cultivate your reflective faculties for want of occasions for frittering your life
45away in silly trifles." Mrs. Dean laughed. "I certainly esteem myself a steady, reasonable kind of body," she said; "not
46exactly from living among the hills and seeing one set of faces, and one series of actions, from year's end to year's
47end; but I have undergone sharp discipline, which has taught me wisdom; and then, I have read more than you would fancy,
48Mr. Lockwood. You could not open a book in this library that I have not looked into, and got something out of also:
49unless it be that range of Greek and Latin, and that of French; and those I know one from another: it is as much as you
50can expect of a poor man's daughter. However, if I am to follow my story in true gossip's fashion, I had better go on;
51and instead of leaping three years, I will be content to pass to the next summer--the summer of 1778, that is nearly
52twenty-three years ago."
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