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1"I wouldn't be you for a kingdom, then!" Catherine declared, emphatically: and she seemed to speak sincerely. "Nelly,
2help me to convince her of her madness. Tell her what Heathcliff is: an unreclaimed creature, without refinement,
3without cultivation; an arid wilderness of furze and whinstone. I'd as soon put that little canary into the park on a
4winter's day, as recommend you to bestow your heart on him! It is deplorable ignorance of his character, child, and
5nothing else, which makes that dream enter your head. Pray, don't imagine that he conceals depths of benevolence and
6affection beneath a stern exterior! He's not a rough diamond--a pearl-containing oyster of a rustic: he's a fierce,
7pitiless, wolfish man. I never say to him, 'Let this or that enemy alone, because it would be ungenerous or cruel to
8harm them;' I say, 'Let them alone, because I should hate them to be wronged:' and he'd crush you like a sparrow's egg,
9Isabella, if he found you a troublesome charge. I know he couldn't love a Linton; and yet he'd be quite capable of
10marrying your fortune and expectations: avarice is growing with him a besetting sin. There's my picture: and I'm his
11friend--so much so, that had he thought seriously to catch you, I should, perhaps, have held my tongue, and let you fall
12into his trap." Miss Linton regarded her sister-in-law with indignation. "For shame! for shame!" she repeated, angrily.
13"You are worse than twenty foes, you poisonous friend!" "Ah! you won't believe me, then?" said Catherine. "You think I
14speak from wicked selfishness?" "I'm certain you do," retorted Isabella; "and I shudder at you!" "Good!" cried the
15other. "Try for yourself, if that be your spirit: I have done, and yield the argument to your saucy insolence."-- "And I
16must suffer for her egotism!" she sobbed, as Mrs. Linton left the room. "All, all is against me: she has blighted my
17single consolation. But she uttered falsehoods, didn't she? Mr. Heathcliff is not a fiend: he has an honourable soul,
18and a true one, or how could he remember her?" "Banish him from your thoughts, Miss," I said. "He's a bird of bad omen:
19no mate for you. Mrs. Linton spoke strongly, and yet I can't contradict her. She is better acquainted with his heart
20than I, or any one besides; and she never would represent him as worse than he is. Honest people don't hide their deeds.
21How has he been living? how has he got rich? why is he staying at Wuthering Heights, the house of a man whom he abhors?
22They say Mr. Earnshaw is worse and worse since he came. They sit up all night together continually, and Hindley has been
23borrowing money on his land, and does nothing but play and drink: I heard only a week ago--it was Joseph who told me--I
24met him at Gimmerton: 'Nelly,' he said, 'we's hae a crowner's 'quest enow, at ahr folks'. One on 'em 's a'most getten
25his finger cut off wi' hauding t' other fro' stickin' hisseln loike a cawlf. That's maister, yah knaw, 'at 's soa up o'
26going tuh t' grand 'sizes. He's noan feared o' t' bench o' judges, norther Paul, nur Peter, nur John, nur Matthew, nor
27noan on 'em, not he! He fair likes--he langs to set his brazened face agean 'em! And yon bonny lad Heathcliff, yah mind,
28he's a rare 'un. He can girn a laugh as well 's onybody at a raight divil's jest. Does he niver say nowt of his fine
29living amang us, when he goes to t' Grange? This is t' way on 't:--up at sun-down: dice, brandy, cloised shutters, und
30can'le-light till next day at noon: then, t' fooil gangs banning un raving to his cham'er, makking dacent fowks dig thur
31fingers i' thur lugs fur varry shame; un' the knave, why he can caint his brass, un' ate, un' sleep, un' off to his
32neighbour's to gossip wi' t' wife. I' course, he tells Dame Catherine how her fathur's goold runs into his pocket, and
33her fathur's son gallops down t' broad road, while he flees afore to oppen t' pikes!' Now, Miss Linton, Joseph is an old
34rascal, but no liar; and, if his account of Heathcliff's conduct be true, you would never think of desiring such a
35husband, would you?" "You are leagued with the rest, Ellen!" she replied. "I'll not listen to your slanders. What
36malevolence you must have to wish to convince me that there is no happiness in the world!" Whether she would have got
37over this fancy if left to herself, or persevered in nursing it perpetually, I cannot say: she had little time to
38reflect. The day after, there was a justice-meeting at the next town; my master was obliged to attend; and Mr.
39Heathcliff, aware of his absence, called rather earlier than usual. Catherine and Isabella were sitting in the library,
40on hostile terms, but silent: the latter alarmed at her recent indiscretion, and the disclosure she had made of her
41secret feelings in a transient fit of passion; the former, on mature consideration, really offended with her companion;
42and, if she laughed again at her pertness, inclined to make it no laughing matter to her. She did laugh as she saw
43Heathcliff pass the window. I was sweeping the hearth, and I noticed a mischievous smile on her lips. Isabella, absorbed
44in her meditations, or a book, remained till the door opened; and it was too late to attempt an escape, which she would
45gladly have done had it been practicable. "Come in, that's right!" exclaimed the mistress, gaily, pulling a chair to the
46fire. "Here are two people sadly in need of a third to thaw the ice between them; and you are the very one we should
47both of us choose. Heathcliff, I'm proud to show you, at last, somebody that dotes on you more than myself. I expect you
48to feel flattered. Nay, it's not Nelly; don't look at her! My poor little sister-in-law is breaking her heart by mere
49contemplation of your physical and moral beauty. It lies in your own power to be Edgar's brother! No, no, Isabella, you
50sha'n't run off," she continued, arresting, with feigned playfulness, the confounded girl, who had risen indignantly.
51"We were quarrelling like cats about you, Heathcliff; and I was fairly beaten in protestations of devotion and
52admiration: and, moreover, I was informed that if I would but have the manners to stand aside, my rival, as she will
53have herself to be, would shoot a shaft into your soul that would fix you for ever, and send my image into eternal
54oblivion!" "Catherine!" said Isabella, calling up her dignity, and disdaining to struggle from the tight grasp that held
55her, "I'd thank you to adhere to the truth and not slander me, even in joke! Mr. Heathcliff, be kind enough to bid this
56friend of yours release me: she forgets that you and I are not intimate acquaintances; and what amuses her is painful to
57me beyond expression." As the guest answered nothing, but took his seat, and looked thoroughly indifferent what
58sentiments she cherished concerning him, she turned and whispered an earnest appeal for liberty to her tormentor. "By no
59means!" cried Mrs. Linton in answer. "I won't be named a dog in the manger again. You shall stay: now then! Heathcliff,
60why don't you evince satisfaction at my pleasant news? Isabella swears that the love Edgar has for me is nothing to that
61she entertains for you. I'm sure she made some speech of the kind; did she not, Ellen? And she has fasted ever since the
62day before yesterday's walk, from sorrow and rage that I despatched her out of your society under the idea of its being
63unacceptable." "I think you belie her," said Heathcliff, twisting his chair to face them. "She wishes to be out of my
64society now, at any rate!" And he stared hard at the object of discourse, as one might do at a strange repulsive animal:
65a centipede from the Indies, for instance, which curiosity leads one to examine in spite of the aversion it raises. The
66poor thing couldn't bear that; she grew white and red in rapid succession, and, while tears beaded her lashes, bent the
67strength of her small fingers to loosen the firm clutch of Catherine; and perceiving that as fast as she raised one
68finger off her arm another closed down, and she could not remove the whole together, she began to make use of her nails;
69and their sharpness presently ornamented the detainer's with crescents of red.
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