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1"Stop!" cried his father. "We'll respect Catherine's filial scruples. Nelly, take him in, and I'll follow your advice
2concerning the doctor, without delay." "You'll do well," replied I. "But I must remain with my mistress: to mind your
3son is not my business." "You are very stiff," said Heathcliff, "I know that: but you'll force me to pinch the baby and
4make it scream before it moves your charity. Come, then, my hero. Are you willing to return, escorted by me?" He
5approached once more, and made as if he would seize the fragile being; but, shrinking back, Linton clung to his cousin,
6and implored her to accompany him, with a frantic importunity that admitted no denial. However I disapproved, I couldn't
7hinder her: indeed, how could she have refused him herself? What was filling him with dread we had no means of
8discerning; but there he was, powerless under its gripe, and any addition seemed capable of shocking him into idiocy. We
9reached the threshold; Catherine walked in, and I stood waiting till she had conducted the invalid to a chair, expecting
10her out immediately; when Mr. Heathcliff, pushing me forward, exclaimed--"My house is not stricken with the plague,
11Nelly; and I have a mind to be hospitable to-day: sit down, and allow me to shut the door." He shut and locked it also.
12I started. "You shall have tea before you go home," he added. "I am by myself. Hareton is gone with some cattle to the
13Lees, and Zillah and Joseph are off on a journey of pleasure; and, though I'm used to being alone, I'd rather have some
14interesting company, if I can get it. Miss Linton, take your seat by him. I give you what I have: the present is hardly
15worth accepting; but I have nothing else to offer. It is Linton, I mean. How she does stare! It's odd what a savage
16feeling I have to anything that seems afraid of me! Had I been born where laws are less strict and tastes less dainty, I
17should treat myself to a slow vivisection of those two, as an evening's amusement." He drew in his breath, struck the
18table, and swore to himself, "By hell! I hate them." "I am not afraid of you!" exclaimed Catherine, who could not hear
19the latter part of his speech. She stepped close up; her black eyes flashing with passion and resolution. "Give me that
20key: I will have it!" she said. "I wouldn't eat or drink here, if I were starving." Heathcliff had the key in his hand
21that remained on the table. He looked up, seized with a sort of surprise at her boldness; or, possibly, reminded, by her
22voice and glance, of the person from whom she inherited it. She snatched at the instrument, and half succeeded in
23getting it out of his loosened fingers: but her action recalled him to the present; he recovered it speedily. "Now,
24Catherine Linton," he said, "stand off, or I shall knock you down; and that will make Mrs. Dean mad." Regardless of this
25warning, she captured his closed hand and its contents again. "We will go!" she repeated, exerting her utmost efforts to
26cause the iron muscles to relax; and finding that her nails made no impression, she applied her teeth pretty sharply.
27Heathcliff glanced at me a glance that kept me from interfering a moment. Catherine was too intent on his fingers to
28notice his face. He opened them suddenly, and resigned the object of dispute; but, ere she had well secured it, he
29seized her with the liberated hand, and, pulling her on his knee, administered with the other a shower of terrific slaps
30on both sides of the head, each sufficient to have fulfilled his threat, had she been able to fall. At this diabolical
31violence I rushed on him furiously. "You villain!" I began to cry, "you villain!" A touch on the chest silenced me: I am
32stout, and soon put out of breath; and, what with that and the rage, I staggered dizzily back, and felt ready to
33suffocate, or to burst a blood-vessel. The scene was over in two minutes; Catherine, released, put her two hands to her
34temples, and looked just as if she were not sure whether her ears were off or on. She trembled like a reed, poor thing,
35and leant against the table perfectly bewildered. "I know how to chastise children, you see," said the scoundrel,
36grimly, as he stooped to repossess himself of the key, which had dropped to the floor. "Go to Linton now, as I told you;
37and cry at your ease! I shall be your father, to-morrow--all the father you'll have in a few days--and you shall have
38plenty of that. You can bear plenty; you're no weakling: you shall have a daily taste, if I catch such a devil of a
39temper in your eyes again!" Cathy ran to me instead of Linton, and knelt down and put her burning cheek on my lap,
40weeping aloud. Her cousin had shrunk into a corner of the settle, as quiet as a mouse, congratulating himself, I dare
41say, that the correction had alighted on another than him. Mr. Heathcliff, perceiving us all confounded, rose, and
42expeditiously made the tea himself. The cups and saucers were laid ready. He poured it out, and handed me a cup. "Wash
43away your spleen," he said. "And help your own naughty pet and mine. It is not poisoned, though I prepared it. I'm going
44out to seek your horses." Our first thought, on his departure, was to force an exit somewhere. We tried the kitchen
45door, but that was fastened outside: we looked at the windows--they were too narrow for even Cathy's little figure.
46"Master Linton," I cried, seeing we were regularly imprisoned, "you know what your diabolical father is after, and you
47shall tell us, or I'll box your ears, as he has done your cousin's." "Yes, Linton, you must tell," said Catherine. "It
48was for your sake I came; and it will be wickedly ungrateful if you refuse." "Give me some tea, I'm thirsty, and then
49I'll tell you," he answered. "Mrs. Dean, go away. I don't like you standing over me. Now, Catherine, you are letting
50your tears fall into my cup. I won't drink that. Give me another." Catherine pushed another to him, and wiped her face.
51I felt disgusted at the little wretch's composure, since he was no longer in terror for himself. The anguish he had
52exhibited on the moor subsided as soon as ever he entered Wuthering Heights; so I guessed he had been menaced with an
53awful visitation of wrath if he failed in decoying us there; and, that accomplished, he had no further immediate fears.
54"Papa wants us to be married," he continued, after sipping some of the liquid. "And he knows your papa wouldn't let us
55marry now; and he's afraid of my dying if we wait; so we are to be married in the morning, and you are to stay here all
56night; and, if you do as he wishes, you shall return home next day, and take me with you." "Take you with her, pitiful
57changeling!" I exclaimed. "You marry? Why, the man is mad! or he thinks us fools, every one. And do you imagine that
58beautiful young lady, that healthy, hearty girl, will tie herself to a little perishing monkey like you? Are you
59cherishing the notion that anybody, let alone Miss Catherine Linton, would have you for a husband? You want whipping for
60bringing us in here at all, with your dastardly puling tricks: and--don't look so silly, now! I've a very good mind to
61shake you severely, for your contemptible treachery, and your imbecile conceit." I did give him a slight shaking; but it
62brought on the cough, and he took to his ordinary resource of moaning and weeping, and Catherine rebuked me. "Stay all
63night? No," she said, looking slowly round. "Ellen, I'll burn that door down but I'll get out." And she would have
64commenced the execution of her threat directly, but Linton was up in alarm for his dear self again. He clasped her in
65his two feeble arms sobbing:--"Won't you have me, and save me? not let me come to the Grange? Oh, darling Catherine! you
66mustn't go and leave, after all. You must obey my father--you must!" "I must obey my own," she replied, "and relieve him
67from this cruel suspense. The whole night! What would he think? He'll be distressed already. I'll either break or burn a
68way out of the house. Be quiet! You're in no danger; but if you hinder me--Linton, I love papa better than you!"
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