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1The evening after the funeral, my young lady and I were seated in the library; now musing mournfully--one of us
2despairingly--on our loss, now venturing conjectures as to the gloomy future. We had just agreed the best destiny which
3could await Catherine would be a permission to continue resident at the Grange; at least during Linton's life: he being
4allowed to join her there, and I to remain as housekeeper. That seemed rather too favourable an arrangement to be hoped
5for; and yet I did hope, and began to cheer up under the prospect of retaining my home and my employment, and, above
6all, my beloved young mistress; when a servant--one of the discarded ones, not yet departed--rushed hastily in, and said
7"that devil Heathcliff" was coming through the court: should he fasten the door in his face? If we had been mad enough
8to order that proceeding, we had not time. He made no ceremony of knocking or announcing his name: he was master, and
9availed himself of the master's privilege to walk straight in, without saying a word. The sound of our informant's voice
10directed him to the library; he entered and motioning him out, shut the door. It was the same room into which he had
11been ushered, as a guest, eighteen years before: the same moon shone through the window; and the same autumn landscape
12lay outside. We had not yet lighted a candle, but all the apartment was visible, even to the portraits on the wall: the
13splendid head of Mrs. Linton, and the graceful one of her husband. Heathcliff advanced to the hearth. Time had little
14altered his person either. There was the same man: his dark face rather sallower and more composed, his frame a stone or
15two heavier, perhaps, and no other difference. Catherine had risen with an impulse to dash out, when she saw him.
16"Stop!" he said, arresting her by the arm. "No more runnings away! Where would you go? I'm come to fetch you home; and I
17hope you'll be a dutiful daughter and not encourage my son to further disobedience. I was embarrassed how to punish him
18when I discovered his part in the business: he's such a cobweb, a pinch would annihilate him; but you'll see by his look
19that he has received his due! I brought him down one evening, the day before yesterday, and just set him in a chair, and
20never touched him afterwards. I sent Hareton out, and we had the room to ourselves. In two hours, I called Joseph to
21carry him up again; and since then my presence is as potent on his nerves as a ghost; and I fancy he sees me often,
22though I am not near. Hareton says he wakes and shrieks in the night by the hour together, and calls you to protect him
23from me; and, whether you like your precious mate, or not, you must come: he's your concern now; I yield all my interest
24in him to you." "Why not let Catherine continue here," I pleaded, "and send Master Linton to her? As you hate them both,
25you'd not miss them: they can only be a daily plague to your unnatural heart." "I'm seeking a tenant for the Grange," he
26answered; "and I want my children about me, to be sure. Besides, that lass owes me her services for her bread. I'm not
27going to nurture her in luxury and idleness after Linton is gone. Make haste and get ready, now; and don't oblige me to
28compel you." "I shall," said Catherine. "Linton is all I have to love in the world, and though you have done what you
29could to make him hateful to me, and me to him, you cannot make us hate each other. And I defy you to hurt him when I am
30by, and I defy you to frighten me!" "You are a boastful champion," replied Heathcliff; "but I don't like you well enough
31to hurt him: you shall get the full benefit of the torment, as long as it lasts. It is not I who will make him hateful
32to you--it is his own sweet spirit. He's as bitter as gall at your desertion and its consequences: don't expect thanks
33for this noble devotion. I heard him draw a pleasant picture to Zillah of what he would do if he were as strong as I:
34the inclination is there, and his very weakness will sharpen his wits to find a substitute for strength." "I know he has
35a bad nature," said Catherine: "he's your son. But I'm glad I've a better, to forgive it; and I know he loves me, and
36for that reason I love him. Mr. Heathcliff, you have nobody to love you; and, however miserable you make us, we shall
37still have the revenge of thinking that your cruelty arises from your greater misery. You are miserable, are you not?
38Lonely, like the devil, and envious like him? Nobody loves you--nobody will cry for you when you die! I wouldn't be
39you!" Catherine spoke with a kind of dreary triumph: she seemed to have made up her mind to enter into the spirit of her
40future family, and draw pleasure from the griefs of her enemies. "You shall be sorry to be yourself presently," said her
41father-in-law, "if you stand there another minute. Begone, witch, and get your things!" She scornfully withdrew. In her
42absence I began to beg for Zillah's place at the Heights, offering to resign mine to her; but he would suffer it on no
43account. He bid me be silent; and then, for the first time, allowed himself a glance round the room and a look at the
44pictures. Having studied Mrs. Linton's, he said--"I shall have that home. Not because I need it, but--" He turned
45abruptly to the fire, and continued, with what, for lack of a better word, I must call a smile--"I'll tell you what I
46did yesterday! I got the sexton, who was digging Linton's grave, to remove the earth off her coffin lid, and I opened
47it. I thought, once, I would have stayed there: when I saw her face again--it is hers yet!--he had hard work to stir me;
48but he said it would change if the air blew on it, and so I struck one side of the coffin loose, and covered it up: not
49Linton's side, damn him! I wish he'd been soldered in lead. And I bribed the sexton to pull it away when I'm laid there,
50and slide mine out too; I'll have it made so: and then by the time Linton gets to us he'll not know which is which!"
51"You were very wicked, Mr. Heathcliff!" I exclaimed; "were you not ashamed to disturb the dead?" "I disturbed nobody,
52Nelly," he replied; "and I gave some ease to myself. I shall be a great deal more comfortable now; and you'll have a
53better chance of keeping me underground, when I get there. Disturbed her? No! she has disturbed me, night and day,
54through eighteen years--incessantly--remorselessly--till yesternight; and yesternight I was tranquil. I dreamt I was
55sleeping the last sleep by that sleeper, with my heart stopped and my cheek frozen against hers." "And if she had been
56dissolved into earth, or worse, what would you have dreamt of then?" I said.
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