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1That Friday made the last of our fine days for a month. In the evening the weather broke: the wind shifted from south to
2north-east, and brought rain first, and then sleet and snow. On the morrow one could hardly imagine that there had been
3three weeks of summer: the primroses and crocuses were hidden under wintry drifts; the larks were silent, the young
4leaves of the early trees smitten and blackened. And dreary, and chill, and dismal, that morrow did creep over! My
5master kept his room; I took possession of the lonely parlour, converting it into a nursery: and there I was, sitting
6with the moaning doll of a child laid on my knee; rocking it to and fro, and watching, meanwhile, the still driving
7flakes build up the uncurtained window, when the door opened, and some person entered, out of breath and laughing! My
8anger was greater than my astonishment for a minute. I supposed it one of the maids, and I cried--"Have done! How dare
9you show your giddiness here? What would Mr. Linton say if he heard you?" "Excuse me!" answered a familiar voice; "but I
10know Edgar is in bed, and I cannot stop myself." With that the speaker came forward to the fire, panting and holding her
11hand to her side. "I have run the whole way from Wuthering Heights!" she continued, after a pause; "except where I've
12flown. I couldn't count the number of falls I've had. Oh, I'm aching all over! Don't be alarmed! There shall be an
13explanation as soon as I can give it; only just have the goodness to step out and order the carriage to take me on to
14Gimmerton, and tell a servant to seek up a few clothes in my wardrobe." The intruder was Mrs. Heathcliff. She certainly
15seemed in no laughing predicament: her hair streamed on her shoulders, dripping with snow and water; she was dressed in
16the girlish dress she commonly wore, befitting her age more than her position: a low frock with short sleeves, and
17nothing on either head or neck. The frock was of light silk, and clung to her with wet, and her feet were protected
18merely by thin slippers; add to this a deep cut under one ear, which only the cold prevented from bleeding profusely, a
19white face scratched and bruised, and a frame hardly able to support itself through fatigue; and you may fancy my first
20fright was not much allayed when I had had leisure to examine her. "My dear young lady," I exclaimed, "I'll stir
21nowhere, and hear nothing, till you have removed every article of your clothes, and put on dry things; and certainly you
22shall not go to Gimmerton to-night, so it is needless to order the carriage." "Certainly I shall," she said; "walking or
23riding: yet I've no objection to dress myself decently. And--ah, see how it flows down my neck now! The fire does make
24it smart." She insisted on my fulfilling her directions, before she would let me touch her; and not till after the
25coachman had been instructed to get ready, and a maid set to pack up some necessary attire, did I obtain her consent for
26binding the wound and helping to change her garments. "Now, Ellen," she said, when my task was finished and she was
27seated in an easy-chair on the hearth, with a cup of tea before her, "you sit down opposite me, and put poor Catherine's
28baby away: I don't like to see it! You mustn't think I care little for Catherine, because I behaved so foolishly on
29entering: I've cried, too, bitterly--yes, more than any one else has reason to cry. We parted unreconciled, you
30remember, and I sha'n't forgive myself. But, for all that, I was not going to sympathise with him--the brute beast! Oh,
31give me the poker! This is the last thing of his I have about me:" she slipped the gold ring from her third finger, and
32threw it on the floor. "I'll smash it!" she continued, striking it with childish spite, "and then I'll burn it!" and she
33took and dropped the misused article among the coals. "There! he shall buy another, if he gets me back again. He'd be
34capable of coming to seek me, to tease Edgar. I dare not stay, lest that notion should possess his wicked head! And
35besides, Edgar has not been kind, has he? And I won't come suing for his assistance; nor will I bring him into more
36trouble. Necessity compelled me to seek shelter here; though, if I had not learned he was out of the way, I'd have
37halted at the kitchen, washed my face, warmed myself, got you to bring what I wanted, and departed again to anywhere out
38of the reach of my accursed--of that incarnate goblin! Ah, he was in such a fury! If he had caught me! It's a pity
39Earnshaw is not his match in strength: I wouldn't have run till I'd seen him all but demolished, had Hindley been able
40to do it!" "Well, don't talk so fast, Miss!" I interrupted; "you'll disorder the handkerchief I have tied round your
41face, and make the cut bleed again. Drink your tea, and take breath, and give over laughing: laughter is sadly out of
42place under this roof, and in your condition!" "An undeniable truth," she replied. "Listen to that child! It maintains a
43constant wail--send it out of my hearing for an hour; I sha'n't stay any longer." I rang the bell, and committed it to a
44servant's care; and then I inquired what had urged her to escape from Wuthering Heights in such an unlikely plight, and
45where she meant to go, as she refused remaining with us. "I ought, and I wished to remain," answered she, "to cheer
46Edgar and take care of the baby, for two things, and because the Grange is my right home. But I tell you he wouldn't let
47me! Do you think he could bear to see me grow fat and merry--could bear to think that we were tranquil, and not resolve
48on poisoning our comfort? Now, I have the satisfaction of being sure that he detests me, to the point of its annoying
49him seriously to have me within ear-shot or eyesight: I notice, when I enter his presence, the muscles of his
50countenance are involuntarily distorted into an expression of hatred; partly arising from his knowledge of the good
51causes I have to feel that sentiment for him, and partly from original aversion. It is strong enough to make me feel
52pretty certain that he would not chase me over England, supposing I contrived a clear escape; and therefore I must get
53quite away. I've recovered from my first desire to be killed by him: I'd rather he'd kill himself! He has extinguished
54my love effectually, and so I'm at my ease. I can recollect yet how I loved him; and can dimly imagine that I could
55still be loving him, if--no, no! Even if he had doted on me, the devilish nature would have revealed its existence
56somehow. Catherine had an awfully perverted taste to esteem him so dearly, knowing him so well. Monster! would that he
57could be blotted out of creation, and out of my memory!" "Hush, hush! He's a human being," I said. "Be more charitable:
58there are worse men than he is yet!" "He's not a human being," she retorted; "and he has no claim on my charity. I gave
59him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death, and flung it back to me. People feel with their hearts, Ellen: and
60since he has destroyed mine, I have not power to feel for him: and I would not, though he groaned from this to his dying
61day, and wept tears of blood for Catherine! No, indeed, indeed, I wouldn't!" And here Isabella began to cry; but,
62immediately dashing the water from her lashes, she recommenced. "You asked, what has driven me to flight at last? I was
63compelled to attempt it, because I had succeeded in rousing his rage a pitch above his malignity. Pulling out the nerves
64with red hot pincers requires more coolness than knocking on the head. He was worked up to forget the fiendish prudence
65he boasted of, and proceeded to murderous violence. I experienced pleasure in being able to exasperate him: the sense of
66pleasure woke my instinct of self-preservation, so I fairly broke free; and if ever I come into his hands again he is
67welcome to a signal revenge.
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