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1"Since you are in the habit of passing dreadful nights," I said, "it won't be Miss who spoils your ease: you'd be the
2same had she never come. However, she shall not disturb you again; and perhaps you'll get quieter when we leave you."
3"Must I go?" asked Catherine dolefully, bending over him. "Do you want me to go, Linton?" "You can't alter what you've
4done," he replied pettishly, shrinking from her, "unless you alter it for the worse by teasing me into a fever." "Well,
5then, I must go?" she repeated. "Let me alone, at least," said he; "I can't bear your talking." She lingered, and
6resisted my persuasions to departure a tiresome while; but as he neither looked up nor spoke, she finally made a
7movement to the door, and I followed. We were recalled by a scream. Linton had slid from his seat on to the hearthstone,
8and lay writhing in the mere perverseness of an indulged plague of a child, determined to be as grievous and harassing
9as it can. I thoroughly gauged his disposition from his behaviour, and saw at once it would be folly to attempt
10humouring him. Not so my companion: she ran back in terror, knelt down, and cried, and soothed, and entreated, till he
11grew quiet from lack of breath: by no means from compunction at distressing her. "I shall lift him on to the settle," I
12said, "and he may roll about as he pleases: we can't stop to watch him. I hope you are satisfied, Miss Cathy, that you
13are not the person to benefit him; and that his condition of health is not occasioned by attachment to you. Now, then,
14there he is! Come away: as soon as he knows there is nobody by to care for his nonsense, he'll be glad to lie still."
15She placed a cushion under his head, and offered him some water; he rejected the latter, and tossed uneasily on the
16former, as if it were a stone or a block of wood. She tried to put it more comfortably. "I can't do with that," he said;
17"it's not high enough." Catherine brought another to lay above it. "That's too high," murmured the provoking thing. "How
18must I arrange it, then?" she asked despairingly. He twined himself up to her, as she half knelt by the settle, and
19converted her shoulder into a support. "No, that won't do," I said. "You'll be content with the cushion, Master
20Heathcliff. Miss has wasted too much time on you already: we cannot remain five minutes longer." "Yes, yes, we can!"
21replied Cathy. "He's good and patient now. He's beginning to think I shall have far greater misery than he will
22to-night, if I believe he is the worse for my visit: and then I dare not come again. Tell the truth about it, Linton;
23for I mustn't come, if I have hurt you." "You must come, to cure me," he answered. "You ought to come, because you have
24hurt me: you know you have extremely! I was not as ill when you entered as I am at present--was I?" "But you've made
25yourself ill by crying and being in a passion.--I didn't do it all," said his cousin. "However, we'll be friends now.
26And you want me: you would wish to see me sometimes, really?" "I told you I did," he replied impatiently. "Sit on the
27settle and let me lean on your knee. That's as mamma used to do, whole afternoons together. Sit quite still and don't
28talk: but you may sing a song, if you can sing; or you may say a nice long interesting ballad--one of those you promised
29to teach me; or a story. I'd rather have a ballad, though: begin." Catherine repeated the longest she could remember.
30The employment pleased both mightily. Linton would have another, and after that another, notwithstanding my strenuous
31objections; and so they went on until the clock struck twelve, and we heard Hareton in the court, returning for his
32dinner. "And to-morrow, Catherine, will you be here to-morrow?" asked young Heathcliff, holding her frock as she rose
33reluctantly. "No," I answered, "nor next day neither." She, however, gave a different response evidently, for his
34forehead cleared as she stooped and whispered in his ear. "You won't go to-morrow, recollect, Miss!" I commenced, when
35we were out of the house. "You are not dreaming of it, are you?" She smiled. "Oh, I'll take good care," I continued:
36"I'll have that lock mended, and you can escape by no way else." "I can get over the wall," she said laughing. "The
37Grange is not a prison, Ellen, and you are not my gaoler. And besides, I'm almost seventeen: I'm a woman. And I'm
38certain Linton would recover quickly if he had me to look after him. I'm older than he is, you know, and wiser: less
39childish, am I not? And he'll soon do as I direct him, with some slight coaxing. He's a pretty little darling when he's
40good. I'd make such a pet of him, if he were mine. We should never quarrel, should we, after we were used to each other?
41Don't you like him, Ellen?" "Like him!" I exclaimed. "The worst-tempered bit of a sickly slip that ever struggled into
42its teens. Happily, as Mr. Heathcliff conjectured, he'll not win twenty. I doubt whether he'll see spring, indeed. And
43small loss to his family whenever he drops off. And lucky it is for us that his father took him: the kinder he was
44treated, the more tedious and selfish he'd be. I'm glad you have no chance of having him for a husband, Miss Catherine."
45My companion waxed serious at hearing this speech. To speak of his death so regardlessly wounded her feelings. "He's
46younger than I," she answered, after a protracted pause of meditation, "and he ought to live the longest: he will--he
47must live as long as I do. He's as strong now as when he first came into the north; I'm positive of that. It's only a
48cold that ails him, the same as papa has. You say papa will get better, and why shouldn't he?" "Well, well," I cried,
49"after all, we needn't trouble ourselves; for listen, Miss,--and mind, I'll keep my word,--if you attempt going to
50Wuthering Heights again, with or without me, I shall inform Mr. Linton, and, unless he allow it, the intimacy with your
51cousin must not be revived." "It has been revived," muttered Cathy, sulkily. "Must not be continued, then," I said.
52"We'll see," was her reply, and she set off at a gallop, leaving me to toil in the rear. We both reached home before our
53dinner-time; my master supposed we had been wandering through the park, and therefore he demanded no explanation of our
54absence. As soon as I entered I hastened to change my soaked shoes and stockings; but sitting such a while at the
55Heights had done the mischief. On the succeeding morning I was laid up, and during three weeks I remained incapacitated
56for attending to my duties: a calamity never experienced prior to that period, and never, I am thankful to say, since.
57My little mistress behaved like an angel in coming to wait on me, and cheer my solitude; the confinement brought me
58exceedingly low. It is wearisome, to a stirring active body: but few have slighter reasons for complaint than I had. The
59moment Catherine left Mr. Linton's room she appeared at my bedside. Her day was divided between us; no amusement usurped
60a minute: she neglected her meals, her studies, and her play; and she was the fondest nurse that ever watched. She must
61have had a warm heart, when she loved her father so, to give so much to me. I said her days were divided between us; but
62the master retired early, and I generally needed nothing after six o'clock, thus the evening was her own. Poor thing! I
63never considered what she did with herself after tea. And though frequently, when she looked in to bid me good-night, I
64remarked a fresh colour in her cheeks and a pinkness over her slender fingers, instead of fancying the hue borrowed from
65a cold ride across the moors, I laid it to the charge of a hot fire in the library.
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