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1"On the morrow I was sad; partly because you were poorly, and partly that I wished my father knew, and approved of my
2excursions: but it was beautiful moonlight after tea; and, as I rode on, the gloom cleared. I shall have another happy
3evening, I thought to myself; and what delights me more, my pretty Linton will. I trotted up their garden, and was
4turning round to the back, when that fellow Earnshaw met me, took my bridle, and bid me go in by the front entrance. He
5patted Minny's neck, and said she was a bonny beast, and appeared as if he wanted me to speak to him. I only told him to
6leave my horse alone, or else it would kick him. He answered in his vulgar accent, 'It wouldn't do mitch hurt if it
7did;' and surveyed its legs with a smile. I was half inclined to make it try; however, he moved off to open the door,
8and, as he raised the latch, he looked up to the inscription above, and said, with a stupid mixture of awkwardness and
9elation: 'Miss Catherine! I can read yon, now.' "'Wonderful,' I exclaimed. 'Pray let us hear you--you are grown clever!'
10"He spelt, and drawled over by syllables, the name--'Hareton Earnshaw.' "'And the figures?' I cried, encouragingly,
11perceiving that he came to a dead halt. "'I cannot tell them yet,' he answered. "'Oh, you dunce!' I said, laughing
12heartily at his failure. "The fool stared, with a grin hovering about his lips, and a scowl gathering over his eyes, as
13if uncertain whether he might not join in my mirth: whether it were not pleasant familiarity, or what it really was,
14contempt. I settled his doubts, by suddenly retrieving my gravity and desiring him to walk away, for I came to see
15Linton, not him. He reddened--I saw that by the moonlight--dropped his hand from the latch, and skulked off, a picture
16of mortified vanity. He imagined himself to be as accomplished as Linton, I suppose, because he could spell his own
17name; and was marvellously discomfited that I didn't think the same." "Stop, Miss Catherine, dear!" I interrupted. "I
18shall not scold, but I don't like your conduct there. If you had remembered that Hareton was your cousin as much as
19Master Heathcliff, you would have felt how improper it was to behave in that way. At least, it was praiseworthy ambition
20for him to desire to be as accomplished as Linton; and probably he did not learn merely to show off: you had made him
21ashamed of his ignorance before, I have no doubt; and he wished to remedy it and please you. To sneer at his imperfect
22attempt was very bad breeding. Had you been brought up in his circumstances, would you be less rude? He was as quick and
23as intelligent a child as ever you were; and I'm hurt that he should be despised now, because that base Heathcliff has
24treated him so unjustly." "Well, Ellen, you won't cry about it, will you?" she exclaimed, surprised at my earnestness.
25"But wait, and you shall hear if he conned his A B C to please me; and if it were worth while being civil to the brute.
26I entered; Linton was lying on the settle, and half got up to welcome me. "'I'm ill to-night, Catherine, love,' he said;
27'and you must have all the talk, and let me listen. Come, and sit by me. I was sure you wouldn't break your word, and
28I'll make you promise again, before you go.' "I knew now that I mustn't tease him, as he was ill; and I spoke softly and
29put no questions, and avoided irritating him in any way. I had brought some of my nicest books for him: he asked me to
30read a little of one, and I was about to comply, when Earnshaw burst the door open: having gathered venom with
31reflection. He advanced direct to us, seized Linton by the arm, and swung him off the seat. "'Get to thy own room!' he
32said, in a voice almost inarticulate with passion; and his face looked swelled and furious. 'Take her there if she comes
33to see thee: thou shalln't keep me out of this. Begone wi' ye both!' "He swore at us, and left Linton no time to answer,
34nearly throwing him into the kitchen; and he clenched his fist as I followed, seemingly longing to knock me down. I was
35afraid for a moment, and I let one volume fall; he kicked it after me, and shut us out. I heard a malignant, crackly
36laugh by the fire, and turning, beheld that odious Joseph standing rubbing his bony hands, and quivering. "'I wer sure
37he'd sarve ye out! He's a grand lad! He's getten t' raight sperrit in him! He knaws--ay, he knaws, as weel as I do, who
38sud be t' maister yonder--Ech, ech, ech! He made ye skift properly! Ech, ech, ech!' "'Where must we go?' I asked of my
39cousin, disregarding the old wretch's mockery. "Linton was white and trembling. He was not pretty then, Ellen: oh, no!
40he looked frightful; for his thin face and large eyes were wrought into an expression of frantic, powerless fury. He
41grasped the handle of the door, and shook it: it was fastened inside. "'If you don't let me in, I'll kill you!--If you
42don't let me in, I'll kill you!' he rather shrieked than said. 'Devil! devil!--I'll kill you--I'll kill you!' "Joseph
43uttered his croaking laugh again. "'Thear, that's t' father!' he cried. 'That's father! We've allas summut o' either
44side in us. Niver heed, Hareton, lad--dunnut be 'feard--he cannot get at thee!' "I took hold of Linton's hands, and
45tried to pull him away; but he shrieked so shockingly that I dared not proceed. At last his cries were choked by a
46dreadful fit of coughing; blood gushed from his mouth, and he fell on the ground. I ran into the yard, sick with terror;
47and called for Zillah, as loud as I could. She soon heard me: she was milking the cows in a shed behind the barn, and
48hurrying from her work, she inquired what there was to do? I hadn't breath to explain; dragging her in, I looked about
49for Linton. Earnshaw had come out to examine the mischief he had caused, and he was then conveying the poor thing
50upstairs. Zillah and I ascended after him; but he stopped me at the top of the steps, and said I shouldn't go in: I must
51go home. I exclaimed that he had killed Linton, and I would enter. Joseph locked the door, and declared I should do 'no
52sich stuff,' and asked me whether I were 'bahn to be as mad as him.' I stood crying till the housekeeper reappeared. She
53affirmed he would be better in a bit, but he couldn't do with that shrieking and din; and she took me, and nearly
54carried me into the house. "Ellen, I was ready to tear my hair off my head! I sobbed and wept so that my eyes were
55almost blind; and the ruffian you have such sympathy with stood opposite: presuming every now and then to bid me
56'wisht,' and denying that it was his fault; and, finally, frightened by my assertions that I would tell papa, and that
57he should be put in prison and hanged, he commenced blubbering himself, and hurried out to hide his cowardly agitation.
58Still, I was not rid of him: when at length they compelled me to depart, and I had got some hundred yards off the
59premises, he suddenly issued from the shadow of the road-side, and checked Minny and took hold of me. "'Miss Catherine,
60I'm ill grieved,' he began, 'but it's rayther too bad--' "I gave him a cut with my whip, thinking perhaps he would
61murder me. He let go, thundering one of his horrid curses, and I galloped home more than half out of my senses.
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