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1I considered it best to depart without seeing Mr. Heathcliff, and bring a rescue for my young lady from the Grange. On
2reaching it, the astonishment of my fellow-servants to see me, and their joy also, was intense; and when they heard that
3their little mistress was safe, two or three were about to hurry up and shout the news at Mr. Edgar's door: but I
4bespoke the announcement of it myself. How changed I found him, even in those few days! He lay an image of sadness and
5resignation awaiting his death. Very young he looked: though his actual age was thirty-nine, one would have called him
6ten years younger, at least. He thought of Catherine; for he murmured her name. I touched his hand, and spoke.
7"Catherine is coming, dear master!" I whispered; "she is alive and well; and will be here, I hope, to-night." I trembled
8at the first effects of this intelligence: he half rose up, looked eagerly round the apartment, and then sank back in a
9swoon. As soon as he recovered, I related our compulsory visit, and detention at the Heights. I said Heathcliff forced
10me to go in: which was not quite true. I uttered as little as possible against Linton; nor did I describe all his
11father's brutal conduct--my intentions being to add no bitterness, if I could help it, to his already overflowing cup.
12He divined that one of his enemy's purposes was to secure the personal property, as well as the estate, to his son: or
13rather himself; yet why he did not wait till his decease was a puzzle to my master, because ignorant how nearly he and
14his nephew would quit the world together. However, he felt that his will had better be altered: instead of leaving
15Catherine's fortune at her own disposal, he determined to put it in the hands of trustees for her use during life, and
16for her children, if she had any, after her. By that means, it could not fall to Mr. Heathcliff should Linton die.
17Having received his orders, I despatched a man to fetch the attorney, and four more, provided with serviceable weapons,
18to demand my young lady of her jailor. Both parties were delayed very late. The single servant returned first. He said
19Mr. Green, the lawyer, was out when he arrived at his house, and he had to wait two hours for his re-entrance; and then
20Mr. Green told him he had a little business in the village that must be done; but he would be at Thrushcross Grange
21before morning. The four men came back unaccompanied also. They brought word that Catherine was ill: too ill to quit her
22room; and Heathcliff would not suffer them to see her. I scolded the stupid fellows well for listening to that tale,
23which I would not carry to my master; resolving to take a whole bevy up to the Heights, at daylight, and storm it
24literally, unless the prisoner were quietly surrendered to us. Her father shall see her, I vowed, and vowed again, if
25that devil be killed on his own door-stones in trying to prevent it! Happily, I was spared the journey and the trouble.
26I had gone downstairs at three o'clock to fetch a jug of water; and was passing through the hall with it in my hand,
27when a sharp knock at the front door made me jump. "Oh! it is Green," I said, recollecting myself--"only Green," and I
28went on, intending to send somebody else to open it; but the knock was repeated: not loud, and still importunately. I
29put the jug on the banister and hastened to admit him myself. The harvest moon shone clear outside. It was not the
30attorney. My own sweet little mistress sprang on my neck sobbing, "Ellen, Ellen! Is papa alive?" "Yes," I cried: "yes,
31my angel, he is, God be thanked, you are safe with us again!" She wanted to run, breathless as she was, upstairs to Mr.
32Linton's room; but I compelled her to sit down on a chair, and made her drink, and washed her pale face, chafing it into
33a faint colour with my apron. Then I said I must go first, and tell of her arrival; imploring her to say, she should be
34happy with young Heathcliff. She stared, but soon comprehending why I counselled her to utter the falsehood, she assured
35me she would not complain. I couldn't abide to be present at their meeting. I stood outside the chamber-door a quarter
36of an hour, and hardly ventured near the bed, then. All was composed, however: Catherine's despair was as silent as her
37father's joy. She supported him calmly, in appearance; and he fixed on her features his raised eyes that seemed dilating
38with ecstasy. He died blissfully, Mr. Lockwood: he died so. Kissing her cheek, he murmured,--"I am going to her; and
39you, darling child, shall come to us!" and never stirred or spoke again; but continued that rapt, radiant gaze, till his
40pulse imperceptibly stopped and his soul departed. None could have noticed the exact minute of his death, it was so
41entirely without a struggle. Whether Catherine had spent her tears, or whether the grief were too weighty to let them
42flow, she sat there dry-eyed till the sun rose: she sat till noon, and would still have remained brooding over that
43deathbed, but I insisted on her coming away and taking some repose. It was well I succeeded in removing her, for at
44dinner-time appeared the lawyer, having called at Wuthering Heights to get his instructions how to behave. He had sold
45himself to Mr. Heathcliff: that was the cause of his delay in obeying my master's summons. Fortunately, no thought of
46worldly affairs crossed the latter's mind, to disturb him, after his daughter's arrival. Mr. Green took upon himself to
47order everything and everybody about the place. He gave all the servants but me, notice to quit. He would have carried
48his delegated authority to the point of insisting that Edgar Linton should not be buried beside his wife, but in the
49chapel, with his family. There was the will, however, to hinder that, and my loud protestations against any infringement
50of its directions. The funeral was hurried over; Catherine, Mrs. Linton Heathcliff now, was suffered to stay at the
51Grange till her father's corpse had quitted it. She told me that her anguish had at last spurred Linton to incur the
52risk of liberating her. She heard the men I sent disputing at the door, and she gathered the sense of Heathcliff's
53answer. It drove her desperate. Linton who had been conveyed up to the little parlour soon after I left, was terrified
54into fetching the key before his father re-ascended. He had the cunning to unlock and re-lock the door, without shutting
55it; and when he should have gone to bed, he begged to sleep with Hareton, and his petition was granted for once.
56Catherine stole out before break of day. She dared not try the doors lest the dogs should raise an alarm; she visited
57the empty chambers and examined their windows; and, luckily, lighting on her mother's, she got easily out of its
58lattice, and on to the ground, by means of the fir-tree close by. Her accomplice suffered for his share in the escape,
59notwithstanding his timid contrivances.
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