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1Joseph mumbled indistinctly in the depths of the cellar, but gave no intimation of ascending; so his master dived down
2to him, leaving me vis-à-vis the ruffianly bitch and a pair of grim shaggy sheep-dogs, who shared with her a jealous
3guardianship over all my movements. Not anxious to come in contact with their fangs, I sat still; but, imagining they
4would scarcely understand tacit insults, I unfortunately indulged in winking and making faces at the trio, and some turn
5of my physiognomy so irritated madam, that she suddenly broke into a fury and leapt on my knees. I flung her back, and
6hastened to interpose the table between us. This proceeding aroused the whole hive: half-a-dozen four-footed fiends, of
7various sizes and ages, issued from hidden dens to the common centre. I felt my heels and coat-laps peculiar subjects of
8assault; and parrying off the larger combatants as effectually as I could with the poker, I was constrained to demand,
9aloud, assistance from some of the household in re-establishing peace. Mr. Heathcliff and his man climbed the cellar
10steps with vexatious phlegm: I don't think they moved one second faster than usual, though the hearth was an absolute
11tempest of worrying and yelping. Happily, an inhabitant of the kitchen made more dispatch; a lusty dame, with tucked-up
12gown, bare arms, and fire-flushed cheeks, rushed into the midst of us flourishing a frying-pan: and used that weapon,
13and her tongue, to such purpose, that the storm subsided magically, and she only remained, heaving like a sea after a
14high wind, when her master entered on the scene. "What the devil is the matter?" he asked, eyeing me in a manner that I
15could ill endure after this inhospitable treatment. "What the devil, indeed!" I muttered. "The herd of possessed swine
16could have had no worse spirits in them than those animals of yours, sir. You might as well leave a stranger with a
17brood of tigers!" "They won't meddle with persons who touch nothing," he remarked, putting the bottle before me, and
18restoring the displaced table. "The dogs do right to be vigilant. Take a glass of wine?" "No, thank you." "Not bitten,
19are you?" "If I had been, I would have set my signet on the biter." Heathcliff's countenance relaxed into a grin. "Come,
20come," he said, "you are flurried, Mr. Lockwood. Here, take a little wine. Guests are so exceedingly rare in this house
21that I and my dogs, I am willing to own, hardly know how to receive them. Your health, sir?" I bowed and returned the
22pledge; beginning to perceive that it would be foolish to sit sulking for the misbehaviour of a pack of curs; besides, I
23felt loth to yield the fellow further amusement at my expense; since his humour took that turn. He--probably swayed by
24prudential consideration of the folly of offending a good tenant--relaxed a little in the laconic style of chipping off
25his pronouns and auxiliary verbs, and introduced what he supposed would be a subject of interest to me,--a discourse on
26the advantages and disadvantages of my present place of retirement. I found him very intelligent on the topics we
27touched; and before I went home, I was encouraged so far as to volunteer another visit to-morrow. He evidently wished no
28repetition of my intrusion. I shall go, notwithstanding. It is astonishing how sociable I feel myself compared with him.
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