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1The mortal terror he felt of Mr. Heathcliff's anger restored to the boy his coward's eloquence. Catherine was near
2distraught: still, she persisted that she must go home, and tried entreaty in her turn, persuading him to subdue his
3selfish agony. While they were thus occupied, our jailor re-entered. "Your beasts have trotted off," he said, "and--now
4Linton! snivelling again? What has she been doing to you? Come, come--have done, and get to bed. In a month or two, my
5lad, you'll be able to pay her back her present tyrannies with a vigorous hand. You're pining for pure love, are you
6not? nothing else in the world: and she shall have you! There, to bed! Zillah won't be here to-night; you must undress
7yourself. Hush! hold your noise! Once in your own room, I'll not come near you: you needn't fear. By chance, you've
8managed tolerably. I'll look to the rest." He spoke these words, holding the door open for his son to pass, and the
9latter achieved his exit exactly as a spaniel might which suspected the person who attended on it of designing a
10spiteful squeeze. The lock was re-secured. Heathcliff approached the fire, where my mistress and I stood silent.
11Catherine looked up, and instinctively raised her hand to her cheek: his neighbourhood revived a painful sensation.
12Anybody else would have been incapable of regarding the childish act with sternness, but he scowled on her and
13muttered--"Oh! you are not afraid of me? Your courage is well disguised: you seem damnably afraid!" "I am afraid now,"
14she replied, "because, if I stay, papa will be miserable: and how can I endure making him miserable--when he--when
15he--Mr. Heathcliff, let me go home! I promise to marry Linton: papa would like me to: and I love him. Why should you
16wish to force me to do what I'll willingly do of myself?" "Let him dare to force you," I cried. "There's law in the
17land, thank God! there is; though we be in an out-of-the-way place. I'd inform if he were my own son: and it's felony
18without benefit of clergy!" "Silence!" said the ruffian. "To the devil with your clamour! I don't want you to speak.
19Miss Linton, I shall enjoy myself remarkably in thinking your father will be miserable: I shall not sleep for
20satisfaction. You could have hit on no surer way of fixing your residence under my roof for the next twenty-four hours
21than informing me that such an event would follow. As to your promise to marry Linton, I'll take care you shall keep it;
22for you shall not quit this place till it is fulfilled." "Send Ellen, then, to let papa know I'm safe!" exclaimed
23Catherine, weeping bitterly. "Or marry me now. Poor papa! Ellen, he'll think we're lost. What shall we do?" "Not he!
24He'll think you are tired of waiting on him, and run off for a little amusement," answered Heathcliff. "You cannot deny
25that you entered my house of your own accord, in contempt of his injunctions to the contrary. And it is quite natural
26that you should desire amusement at your age; and that you would weary of nursing a sick man, and that man only your
27father. Catherine, his happiest days were over when your days began. He cursed you, I dare say, for coming into the
28world (I did, at least); and it would just do if he cursed you as he went out of it. I'd join him. I don't love you! How
29should I? Weep away. As far as I can see, it will be your chief diversion hereafter; unless Linton make amends for other
30losses: and your provident parent appears to fancy he may. His letters of advice and consolation entertained me vastly.
31In his last he recommended my jewel to be careful of his; and kind to her when he got her. Careful and kind--that's
32paternal. But Linton requires his whole stock of care and kindness for himself. Linton can play the little tyrant well.
33He'll undertake to torture any number of cats, if their teeth be drawn and their claws pared. You'll be able to tell his
34uncle fine tales of his kindness, when you get home again, I assure you." "You're right there!" I said; "explain your
35son's character. Show his resemblance to yourself: and then, I hope, Miss Cathy will think twice before she takes the
36cockatrice!" "I don't much mind speaking of his amiable qualities now," he answered; "because she must either accept him
37or remain a prisoner, and you along with her, till your master dies. I can detain you both, quite concealed, here. If
38you doubt, encourage her to retract her word, and you'll have an opportunity of judging!" "I'll not retract my word,"
39said Catherine. "I'll marry him within this hour, if I may go to Thrushcross Grange afterwards. Mr. Heathcliff, you're a
40cruel man, but you're not a fiend; and you won't, from mere malice, destroy irrevocably all my happiness. If papa
41thought I had left him on purpose, and if he died before I returned, could I bear to live? I've given over crying: but
42I'm going to kneel here, at your knee; and I'll not get up, and I'll not take my eyes from your face till you look back
43at me! No, don't turn away! do look! you'll see nothing to provoke you. I don't hate you. I'm not angry that you struck
44me. Have you never loved anybody in all your life, uncle? never? Ah! you must look once. I'm so wretched, you can't help
45being sorry and pitying me." "Keep your eft's fingers off; and move, or I'll kick you!" cried Heathcliff, brutally
46repulsing her. "I'd rather be hugged by a snake. How the devil can you dream of fawning on me? I detest you!" He
47shrugged his shoulders: shook himself, indeed, as if his flesh crept with aversion; and thrust back his chair; while I
48got up, and opened my mouth, to commence a downright torrent of abuse. But I was rendered dumb in the middle of the
49first sentence, by a threat that I should be shown into a room by myself the very next syllable I uttered. It was
50growing dark--we heard a sound of voices at the garden-gate. Our host hurried out instantly: he had his wits about him;
51we had not. There was a talk of two or three minutes, and he returned alone. "I thought it had been your cousin
52Hareton," I observed to Catherine. "I wish he would arrive! Who knows but he might take our part?" "It was three
53servants sent to seek you from the Grange," said Heathcliff, overhearing me. "You should have opened a lattice and
54called out: but I could swear that chit is glad you didn't. She's glad to be obliged to stay, I'm certain." At learning
55the chance we had missed, we both gave vent to our grief without control; and he allowed us to wail on till nine
56o'clock. Then he bid us go upstairs, through the kitchen, to Zillah's chamber; and I whispered my companion to obey:
57perhaps we might contrive to get through the window there, or into a garret, and out by its skylight. The window,
58however, was narrow, like those below, and the garret trap was safe from our attempts; for we were fastened in as
59before. We neither of us lay down: Catherine took her station by the lattice, and watched anxiously for morning; a deep
60sigh being the only answer I could obtain to my frequent entreaties that she would try to rest. I seated myself in a
61chair, and rocked to and fro, passing harsh judgment on my many derelictions of duty; from which, it struck me then, all
62the misfortunes of my employers sprang. It was not the case, in reality, I am aware; but it was, in my imagination, that
63dismal night; and I thought Heathcliff himself less guilty than I. At seven o'clock he came, and inquired if Miss Linton
64had risen. She ran to the door immediately, and answered, "Yes." "Here, then," he said, opening it, and pulling her out.
65I rose to follow, but he turned the lock again. I demanded my release. "Be patient," he replied; "I'll send up your
66breakfast in a while." I thumped on the panels, and rattled the latch angrily; and Catherine asked why I was still shut
67up? He answered, I must try to endure it another hour, and they went away. I endured it two or three hours; at length, I
68heard a footstep: not Heathcliff's. "I've brought you something to eat," said a voice; "oppen t' door!" Complying
69eagerly, I beheld Hareton, laden with food enough to last me all day. "Tak' it," he added, thrusting the tray into my
70hand. "Stay one minute," I began. "Nay," cried he, and retired, regardless of any prayers I could pour forth to detain
71him. And there I remained enclosed the whole day, and the whole of the next night; and another, and another. Five nights
72and four days I remained, altogether, seeing nobody but Hareton once every morning; and he was a model of a jailor:
73surly, and dumb, and deaf to every attempt at moving his sense of justice or compassion.
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