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1"Ah! you are come, are you, Edgar Linton?" she said, with angry animation. "You are one of those things that are ever
2found when least wanted, and when you are wanted, never! I suppose we shall have plenty of lamentations now--I see we
3shall--but they can't keep me from my narrow home out yonder: my resting-place, where I'm bound before spring is over!
4There it is: not among the Lintons, mind, under the chapel-roof, but in the open air, with a head-stone; and you may
5please yourself whether you go to them or come to me!" "Catherine, what have you done?" commenced the master. "Am I
6nothing to you any more? Do you love that wretch Heath--" "Hush!" cried Mrs. Linton. "Hush, this moment! You mention
7that name and I end the matter instantly by a spring from the window! What you touch at present you may have; but my
8soul will be on that hill-top before you lay hands on me again. I don't want you, Edgar: I'm past wanting you. Return to
9your books. I'm glad you possess a consolation, for all you had in me is gone." "Her mind wanders, sir," I interposed.
10"She has been talking nonsense the whole evening; but let her have quiet, and proper attendance, and she'll rally.
11Hereafter, we must be cautious how we vex her." "I desire no further advice from you," answered Mr. Linton. "You knew
12your mistress's nature, and you encouraged me to harass her. And not to give me one hint of how she has been these three
13days! It was heartless! Months of sickness could not cause such a change!" I began to defend myself, thinking it too bad
14to be blamed for another's wicked waywardness. "I knew Mrs. Linton's nature to be headstrong and domineering," cried I:
15"but I didn't know that you wished to foster her fierce temper! I didn't know that, to humour her, I should wink at Mr.
16Heathcliff. I performed the duty of a faithful servant in telling you, and I have got a faithful servant's wages! Well,
17it will teach me to be careful next time. Next time you may gather intelligence for yourself!" "The next time you bring
18a tale to me you shall quit my service, Ellen Dean," he replied. "You'd rather hear nothing about it, I suppose, then,
19Mr. Linton?" said I. "Heathcliff has your permission to come a-courting to Miss, and to drop in at every opportunity
20your absence offers, on purpose to poison the mistress against you?" Confused as Catherine was, her wits were alert at
21applying our conversation. "Ah! Nelly has played traitor," she exclaimed, passionately. "Nelly is my hidden enemy. You
22witch! So you do seek elf-bolts to hurt us! Let me go, and I'll make her rue! I'll make her howl a recantation!" A
23maniac's fury kindled under her brows; she struggled desperately to disengage herself from Linton's arms. I felt no
24inclination to tarry the event; and, resolving to seek medical aid on my own responsibility, I quitted the chamber. In
25passing the garden to reach the road, at a place where a bridle hook is driven into the wall, I saw something white
26moved irregularly, evidently by another agent than the wind. Notwithstanding my hurry, I stayed to examine it, lest ever
27after I should have the conviction impressed on my imagination that it was a creature of the other world. My surprise
28and perplexity were great on discovering, by touch more than vision, Miss Isabella's springer, Fanny, suspended by a
29handkerchief, and nearly at its last gasp. I quickly released the animal, and lifted it into the garden. I had seen it
30follow its mistress upstairs when she went to bed; and wondered much how it could have got out there, and what
31mischievous person had treated it so. While untying the knot round the hook, it seemed to me that I repeatedly caught
32the beat of horses' feet galloping at some distance; but there were such a number of things to occupy my reflections
33that I hardly gave the circumstance a thought: though it was a strange sound, in that place, at two o'clock in the
34morning. Mr. Kenneth was fortunately just issuing from his house to see a patient in the village as I came up the
35street; and my account of Catherine Linton's malady induced him to accompany me back immediately. He was a plain rough
36man; and he made no scruple to speak his doubts of her surviving this second attack; unless she were more submissive to
37his directions than she had shown herself before. "Nelly Dean," said he, "I can't help fancying there's an extra cause
38for this. What has there been to do at the Grange? We've odd reports up here. A stout, hearty lass like Catherine does
39not fall ill for a trifle; and that sort of people should not either. It's hard work bringing them through fevers, and
40such things. How did it begin?" "The master will inform you," I answered; "but you are acquainted with the Earnshaws'
41violent dispositions, and Mrs. Linton caps them all. I may say this; it commenced in a quarrel. She was struck during a
42tempest of passion with a kind of fit. That's her account, at least: for she flew off in the height of it, and locked
43herself up. Afterwards, she refused to eat, and now she alternately raves and remains in a half dream; knowing those
44about her, but having her mind filled with all sorts of strange ideas and illusions." "Mr. Linton will be sorry?"
45observed Kenneth, interrogatively. "Sorry? he'll break his heart should anything happen!" I replied. "Don't alarm him
46more than necessary." "Well, I told him to beware," said my companion; "and he must bide the consequences of neglecting
47my warning! Hasn't he been intimate with Mr. Heathcliff lately?" "Heathcliff frequently visits at the Grange," answered
48I, "though more on the strength of the mistress having known him when a boy, than because the master likes his company.
49At present he's discharged from the trouble of calling; owing to some presumptuous aspirations after Miss Linton which
50he manifested. I hardly think he'll be taken in again." "And does Miss Linton turn a cold shoulder on him?" was the
51doctor's next question. "I'm not in her confidence," returned I, reluctant to continue the subject. "No, she's a sly
52one," he remarked, shaking his head. "She keeps her own counsel! But she's a real little fool. I have it from good
53authority that last night (and a pretty night it was!) she and Heathcliff were walking in the plantation at the back of
54your house above two hours; and he pressed her not to go in again, but just mount his horse and away with him! My
55informant said she could only put him off by pledging her word of honour to be prepared on their first meeting after
56that: when it was to be he didn't hear; but you urge Mr. Linton to look sharp!" This news filled me with fresh fears; I
57outstripped Kenneth, and ran most of the way back. The little dog was yelping in the garden yet. I spared a minute to
58open the gate for it, but instead of going to the house door, it coursed up and down snuffing the grass, and would have
59escaped to the road, had I not seized it and conveyed it in with me. On ascending to Isabella's room, my suspicions were
60confirmed: it was empty. Had I been a few hours sooner Mrs. Linton's illness might have arrested her rash step. But what
61could be done now? There was a bare possibility of overtaking them if pursued instantly. I could not pursue them,
62however; and I dared not rouse the family, and fill the place with confusion; still less unfold the business to my
63master, absorbed as he was in his present calamity, and having no heart to spare for a second grief! I saw nothing for
64it but to hold my tongue, and suffer matters to take their course; and Kenneth being arrived, I went with a badly
65composed countenance to announce him. Catherine lay in a troubled sleep: her husband had succeeded in soothing the
66excess of frenzy; he now hung over her pillow, watching every shade and every change of her painfully expressive
67features. The doctor, on examining the case for himself, spoke hopefully to him of its having a favourable termination,
68if we could only preserve around her perfect and constant tranquillity. To me, he signified the threatening danger was
69not so much death, as permanent alienation of intellect.
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