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1"These things happened last winter, sir," said Mrs. Dean; "hardly more than a year ago. Last winter, I did not think, at
2another twelve months' end, I should be amusing a stranger to the family with relating them! Yet, who knows how long
3you'll be a stranger? You're too young to rest always contented, living by yourself; and I some way fancy no one could
4see Catherine Linton and not love her. You smile; but why do you look so lively and interested when I talk about her?
5and why have you asked me to hang her picture over your fireplace? and why--?" "Stop, my good friend!" I cried. "It may
6be very possible that I should love her; but would she love me? I doubt it too much to venture my tranquillity by
7running into temptation: and then my home is not here. I'm of the busy world, and to its arms I must return. Go on. Was
8Catherine obedient to her father's commands?" "She was," continued the housekeeper. "Her affection for him was still the
9chief sentiment in her heart; and he spoke without anger: he spoke in the deep tenderness of one about to leave his
10treasure amid perils and foes, where his remembered words would be the only aid that he could bequeath to guide her. He
11said to me, a few days afterwards, 'I wish my nephew would write, Ellen, or call. Tell me, sincerely, what you think of
12him: is he changed for the better, or is there a prospect of improvement, as he grows a man?' "'He's very delicate,
13sir,' I replied; 'and scarcely likely to reach manhood: but this I can say, he does not resemble his father; and if Miss
14Catherine had the misfortune to marry him, he would not be beyond her control: unless she were extremely and foolishly
15indulgent. However, master, you'll have plenty of time to get acquainted with him and see whether he would suit her: it
16wants four years and more to his being of age.'" Edgar sighed; and, walking to the window, looked out towards Gimmerton
17Kirk. It was a misty afternoon, but the February sun shone dimly, and we could just distinguish the two fir-trees in the
18yard, and the sparely-scattered gravestones. "I've prayed often," he half soliloquised, "for the approach of what is
19coming; and now I begin to shrink, and fear it. I thought the memory of the hour I came down that glen a bridegroom
20would be less sweet than the anticipation that I was soon, in a few months, or, possibly, weeks, to be carried up, and
21laid in its lonely hollow! Ellen, I've been very happy with my little Cathy: through winter nights and summer days she
22was a living hope at my side. But I've been as happy musing by myself among those stones, under that old church: lying,
23through the long June evenings, on the green mound of her mother's grave, and wishing--yearning for the time when I
24might lie beneath it. What can I do for Cathy? How must I quit her? I'd not care one moment for Linton being
25Heathcliff's son; nor for his taking her from me, if he could console her for my loss. I'd not care that Heathcliff
26gained his ends, and triumphed in robbing me of my last blessing! But should Linton be unworthy--only a feeble tool to
27his father--I cannot abandon her to him! And, hard though it be to crush her buoyant spirit, I must persevere in making
28her sad while I live, and leaving her solitary when I die. Darling! I'd rather resign her to God, and lay her in the
29earth before me." "Resign her to God as it is, sir," I answered, "and if we should lose you--which may He forbid--under
30His providence, I'll stand her friend and counsellor to the last. Miss Catherine is a good girl: I don't fear that she
31will go wilfully wrong; and people who do their duty are always finally rewarded." Spring advanced; yet my master
32gathered no real strength, though he resumed his walks in the grounds with his daughter. To her inexperienced notions,
33this itself was a sign of convalescence; and then his cheek was often flushed, and his eyes were bright; she felt sure
34of his recovering. On her seventeenth birthday, he did not visit the churchyard: it was raining, and I observed--
35"You'll surely not go out to-night, sir?" He answered,--"No, I'll defer it this year a little longer." He wrote again to
36Linton, expressing his great desire to see him; and, had the invalid been presentable, I've no doubt his father would
37have permitted him to come. As it was, being instructed, he returned an answer, intimating that Mr. Heathcliff objected
38to his calling at the Grange; but his uncle's kind remembrance delighted him, and he hoped to meet him sometimes in his
39rambles, and personally to petition that his cousin and he might not remain long so utterly divided. That part of his
40letter was simple, and probably his own. Heathcliff knew he could plead eloquently for Catherine's company, then. "I do
41not ask," he said, "that she may visit here; but am I never to see her, because my father forbids me to go to her home,
42and you forbid her to come to mine? Do, now and then, ride with her towards the Heights; and let us exchange a few
43words, in your presence! We have done nothing to deserve this separation; and you are not angry with me: you have no
44reason to dislike me, you allow, yourself. Dear uncle! send me a kind note to-morrow, and leave to join you anywhere you
45please, except at Thrushcross Grange. I believe an interview would convince you that my father's character is not mine:
46he affirms I am more your nephew than his son; and though I have faults which render me unworthy of Catherine, she has
47excused them, and for her sake, you should also. You inquire after my health--it is better; but while I remain cut off
48from all hope, and doomed to solitude, or the society of those who never did and never will like me, how can I be
49cheerful and well?" Edgar, though he felt for the boy, could not consent to grant his request; because he could not
50accompany Catherine. He said, in summer, perhaps, they might meet: meantime, he wished him to continue writing at
51intervals, and engaged to give him what advice and comfort he was able by letter; being well aware of his hard position
52in his family. Linton complied; and had he been unrestrained, would probably have spoiled all by filling his epistles
53with complaints and lamentations: but his father kept a sharp watch over him; and, of course, insisted on every line
54that my master sent being shown; so, instead of penning his peculiar personal sufferings and distresses, the themes
55constantly uppermost in his thoughts, he harped on the cruel obligation of being held asunder from his friend and love;
56and gently intimated that Mr. Linton must allow an interview soon, or he should fear he was purposely deceiving him with
57empty promises. Cathy was a powerful ally at home; and between them they at length persuaded my master to acquiesce in
58their having a ride or a walk together about once a week, under my guardianship, and on the moors nearest the Grange:
59for June found him still declining. Though he had set aside yearly a portion of his income for my young lady's fortune,
60he had a natural desire that she might retain--or at least return in a short time to--the house of her ancestors; and he
61considered her only prospect of doing that was by a union with his heir; he had no idea that the latter was failing
62almost as fast as himself; nor had any one, I believe: no doctor visited the Heights, and no one saw Master Heathcliff
63to make report of his condition among us. I, for my part, began to fancy my forebodings were false, and that he must be
64actually rallying, when he mentioned riding and walking on the moors, and seemed so earnest in pursuing his object. I
65could not picture a father treating a dying child as tyrannically and wickedly as I afterwards learned Heathcliff had
66treated him, to compel this apparent eagerness: his efforts redoubling the more imminently his avaricious and unfeeling
67plans were threatened with defeat by death.
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