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1I have paid a visit to the Heights, but I have not seen her since she left: Joseph held the door in his hand when I
2called to ask after her, and wouldn't let me pass. He said Mrs. Linton was "thrang," and the master was not in. Zillah
3has told me something of the way they go on, otherwise I should hardly know who was dead and who living. She thinks
4Catherine haughty, and does not like her, I can guess by her talk. My young lady asked some aid of her when she first
5came; but Mr. Heathcliff told her to follow her own business, and let his daughter-in-law look after herself; and Zillah
6willingly acquiesced, being a narrow-minded, selfish woman. Catherine evinced a child's annoyance at this neglect;
7repaid it with contempt, and thus enlisted my informant among her enemies, as securely as if she had done her some great
8wrong. I had a long talk with Zillah about six weeks ago, a little before you came, one day when we foregathered on the
9moor; and this is what she told me. "The first thing Mrs. Linton did," she said, "on her arrival at the Heights, was to
10run upstairs, without even wishing good-evening to me and Joseph; she shut herself into Linton's room, and remained till
11morning. Then, while the master and Earnshaw were at breakfast, she entered the house, and asked all in a quiver if the
12doctor might be sent for? her cousin was very ill. "'We know that!' answered Heathcliff; 'but his life is not worth a
13farthing, and I won't spend a farthing on him.' "'But I cannot tell how to do,' she said; 'and if nobody will help me,
14he'll die!' "'Walk out of the room,' cried the master, 'and let me never hear a word more about him! None here care what
15becomes of him; if you do, act the nurse; if you do not, lock him up and leave him.' "Then she began to bother me, and I
16said I'd had enough plague with the tiresome thing; we each had our tasks, and hers was to wait on Linton: Mr.
17Heathcliff bid me leave that labour to her. "How they managed together, I can't tell. I fancy he fretted a great deal,
18and moaned hisseln night and day; and she had precious little rest: one could guess by her white face and heavy eyes.
19She sometimes came into the kitchen all wildered like, and looked as if she would fain beg assistance; but I was not
20going to disobey the master: I never dare disobey him, Mrs. Dean; and, though I thought it wrong that Kenneth should not
21be sent for, it was no concern of mine either to advise or complain, and I always refused to meddle. Once or twice,
22after we had gone to bed, I've happened to open my door again and seen her sitting crying on the stairs'-top; and then
23I've shut myself in quick, for fear of being moved to interfere. I did pity her then, I'm sure: still I didn't wish to
24lose my place, you know. "At last, one night she came boldly into my chamber, and frightened me out of my wits, by
25saying, 'Tell Mr. Heathcliff that his son is dying--I'm sure he is, this time. Get up, instantly, and tell him.' "Having
26uttered this speech, she vanished again. I lay a quarter of an hour listening and trembling. Nothing stirred--the house
27was quiet. "She's mistaken, I said to myself. He's got over it. I needn't disturb them; and I began to doze. But my
28sleep was marred a second time by a sharp ringing of the bell--the only bell we have, put up on purpose for Linton; and
29the master called to me to see what was the matter, and inform them that he wouldn't have that noise repeated. "I
30delivered Catherine's message. He cursed to himself, and in a few minutes came out with a lighted candle, and proceeded
31to their room. I followed. Mrs. Heathcliff was seated by the bedside, with her hands folded on her knees. Her
32father-in-law went up, held the light to Linton's face, looked at him, and touched him; afterwards he turned to her.
33"'Now--Catherine,' he said, 'how do you feel?' "She was dumb. "'How do you feel, Catherine?' he repeated. "'He's safe,
34and I'm free,' she answered: 'I should feel well--but,' she continued, with a bitterness she couldn't conceal, 'you have
35left me so long to struggle against death alone, that I feel and see only death! I feel like death!' "And she looked
36like it, too! I gave her a little wine. Hareton and Joseph, who had been wakened by the ringing and the sound of feet,
37and heard our talk from outside, now entered. Joseph was fain, I believe, of the lad's removal; Hareton seemed a thought
38bothered: though he was more taken up with staring at Catherine than thinking of Linton. But the master bid him get off
39to bed again: we didn't want his help. He afterwards made Joseph remove the body to his chamber, and told me to return
40to mine, and Mrs. Heathcliff remained by herself. "In the morning, he sent me to tell her she must come down to
41breakfast: she had undressed, and appeared going to sleep, and said she was ill; at which I hardly wondered. I informed
42Mr. Heathcliff, and he replied,--'Well, let her be till after the funeral; and go up now and then to get her what is
43needful; and, as soon as she seems better, tell me.'" Cathy stayed upstairs a fortnight, according to Zillah; who
44visited her twice a day, and would have been rather more friendly, but her attempts at increasing kindness were proudly
45and promptly repelled. Heathcliff went up once, to show her Linton's will. He had bequeathed the whole of his, and what
46had been her, moveable property, to his father: the poor creature was threatened, or coaxed, into that act during her
47week's absence, when his uncle died. The lands, being a minor, he could not meddle with. However, Mr. Heathcliff has
48claimed and kept them in his wife's right and his also: I suppose legally; at any rate, Catherine, destitute of cash and
49friends, cannot disturb his possession. "Nobody," said Zillah, "ever approached her door, except that once, but I; and
50nobody asked anything about her. The first occasion of her coming down into the house was on a Sunday afternoon. She had
51cried out, when I carried up her dinner, that she couldn't bear any longer being in the cold; and I told her the master
52was going to Thrushcross Grange, and Earnshaw and I needn't hinder her from descending; so, as soon as she heard
53Heathcliff's horse trot off, she made her appearance, donned in black, and her yellow curls combed back behind her ears
54as plain as a Quaker: she couldn't comb them out. "Joseph and I generally go to chapel on Sundays:" the kirk, (you know,
55has no minister now, explained Mrs. Dean; and they call the Methodists' or Baptists' place, I can't say which it is, at
56Gimmerton, a chapel.) "Joseph had gone," she continued, "but I thought proper to bide at home. Young folks are always
57the better for an elder's over-looking; and Hareton, with all his bashfulness, isn't a model of nice behaviour. I let
58him know that his cousin would very likely sit with us, and she had been always used to see the Sabbath respected; so he
59had as good leave his guns and bits of indoor work alone, while she stayed. He coloured up at the news, and cast his
60eyes over his hands and clothes. The train-oil and gunpowder were shoved out of sight in a minute. I saw he meant to
61give her his company; and I guessed, by his way, he wanted to be presentable; so, laughing, as I durst not laugh when
62the master is by, I offered to help him, if he would, and joked at his confusion. He grew sullen, and began to swear.
63"Now, Mrs. Dean," Zillah went on, seeing me not pleased by her manner, "you happen think your young lady too fine for
64Mr. Hareton; and happen you're right: but I own I should love well to bring her pride a peg lower. And what will all her
65learning and her daintiness do for her, now? She's as poor as you or I: poorer, I'll be bound: you're saving, and I'm
66doing my little all that road." Hareton allowed Zillah to give him her aid; and she flattered him into a good humour;
67so, when Catherine came, half forgetting her former insults, he tried to make himself agreeable, by the housekeeper's
68account.
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