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1On the morrow of that Monday, Earnshaw being still unable to follow his ordinary employments, and therefore remaining
2about the house, I speedily found it would be impracticable to retain my charge beside me, as heretofore. She got
3downstairs before me, and out into the garden, where she had seen her cousin performing some easy work; and when I went
4to bid them come to breakfast, I saw she had persuaded him to clear a large space of ground from currant and gooseberry
5bushes, and they were busy planning together an importation of plants from the Grange. I was terrified at the
6devastation which had been accomplished in a brief half-hour; the black-currant trees were the apple of Joseph's eye,
7and she had just fixed her choice of a flower-bed in the midst of them. "There! That will be all shown to the master," I
8exclaimed, "the minute it is discovered. And what excuse have you to offer for taking such liberties with the garden? We
9shall have a fine explosion on the head of it: see if we don't! Mr. Hareton, I wonder you should have no more wit than
10to go and make that mess at her bidding!" "I'd forgotten they were Joseph's," answered Earnshaw, rather puzzled; "but
11I'll tell him I did it." We always ate our meals with Mr. Heathcliff. I held the mistress's post in making tea and
12carving; so I was indispensable at table. Catherine usually sat by me, but to-day she stole nearer to Hareton; and I
13presently saw she would have no more discretion in her friendship than she had in her hostility. "Now, mind you don't
14talk with and notice your cousin too much," were my whispered instructions as we entered the room. "It will certainly
15annoy Mr. Heathcliff, and he'll be mad at you both." "I'm not going to," she answered. The minute after, she had sidled
16to him, and was sticking primroses in his plate of porridge. He dared not speak to her there: he dared hardly look; and
17yet she went on teasing, till he was twice on the point of being provoked to laugh. I frowned, and then she glanced
18towards the master: whose mind was occupied on other subjects than his company, as his countenance evinced; and she grew
19serious for an instant, scrutinizing him with deep gravity. Afterwards she turned, and recommenced her nonsense; at
20last, Hareton uttered a smothered laugh. Mr. Heathcliff started; his eye rapidly surveyed our faces. Catherine met it
21with her accustomed look of nervousness and yet defiance, which he abhorred. "It is well you are out of my reach," he
22exclaimed. "What fiend possesses you to stare back at me, continually, with those infernal eyes? Down with them! and
23don't remind me of your existence again. I thought I had cured you of laughing." "It was me," muttered Hareton. "What do
24you say?" demanded the master. Hareton looked at his plate, and did not repeat the confession. Mr. Heathcliff looked at
25him a bit, and then silently resumed his breakfast and his interrupted musing. We had nearly finished, and the two young
26people prudently shifted wider asunder, so I anticipated no further disturbance during that sitting: when Joseph
27appeared at the door, revealing by his quivering lip and furious eyes that the outrage committed on his precious shrubs
28was detected. He must have seen Cathy and her cousin about the spot before he examined it, for while his jaws worked
29like those of a cow chewing its cud, and rendered his speech difficult to understand, he began:-- "I mun hev' my wage,
30and I mun goa! I hed aimed to dee wheare I'd sarved fur sixty year; and I thowt I'd lug my books up into t' garret, and
31all my bits o' stuff, and they sud hev' t' kitchen to theirseln; for t' sake o' quietness. It wur hard to gie up my awn
32hearthstun, but I thowt I could do that! But nah, shoo's taan my garden fro' me, and by th' heart, maister, I cannot
33stand it! Yah may bend to th' yoak an ye will--I noan used to 't, and an old man doesn't sooin get used to new barthens.
34I'd rayther arn my bite an' my sup wi' a hammer in th' road!" "Now, now, idiot!" interrupted Heathcliff, "cut it short!
35What's your grievance? I'll interfere in no quarrels between you and Nelly. She may thrust you into the coal-hole for
36anything I care." "It's noan Nelly!" answered Joseph. "I sudn't shift for Nelly--nasty ill nowt as shoo is. Thank God!
37shoo cannot stale t' sowl o' nob'dy! Shoo wer niver soa handsome, but what a body mud look at her 'bout winking. It's
38yon flaysome, graceless quean, that's witched our lad, wi' her bold een and her forrard ways--till--Nay! it fair brusts
39my heart! He's forgotten all I've done for him, and made on him, and goan and riven up a whole row o' t' grandest
40currant-trees i' t' garden!" and here he lamented outright; unmanned by a sense of his bitter injuries, and Earnshaw's
41ingratitude and dangerous condition. "Is the fool drunk?" asked Mr. Heathcliff. "Hareton, is it you he's finding fault
42with?" "I've pulled up two or three bushes," replied the young man; "but I'm going to set 'em again." "And why have you
43pulled them up?" said the master. Catherine wisely put in her tongue. "We wanted to plant some flowers there," she
44cried. "I'm the only person to blame, for I wished him to do it." "And who the devil gave you leave to touch a stick
45about the place?" demanded her father-in-law, much surprised. "And who ordered you to obey her?" he added, turning to
46Hareton. The latter was speechless; his cousin replied--"You shouldn't grudge a few yards of earth for me to ornament,
47when you have taken all my land!" "Your land, insolent slut! You never had any," said Heathcliff. "And my money," she
48continued; returning his angry glare, and meantime biting a piece of crust, the remnant of her breakfast. "Silence!" he
49exclaimed. "Get done, and begone!" "And Hareton's land, and his money," pursued the reckless thing. "Hareton and I are
50friends now; and I shall tell him all about you!" The master seemed confounded a moment: he grew pale, and rose up,
51eyeing her all the while, with an expression of mortal hate. "If you strike me, Hareton will strike you," she said; "so
52you may as well sit down." "If Hareton does not turn you out of the room, I'll strike him to hell," thundered
53Heathcliff. "Damnable witch! dare you pretend to rouse him against me? Off with her! Do you hear? Fling her into the
54kitchen! I'll kill her, Ellen Dean, if you let her come into my sight again!" Hareton tried, under his breath, to
55persuade her to go. "Drag her away!" he cried, savagely. "Are you staying to talk?" And he approached to execute his own
56command. "He'll not obey you, wicked man, any more," said Catherine; "and he'll soon detest you as much as I do."
57"Wisht! wisht!" muttered the young man, reproachfully; "I will not hear you speak so to him. Have done." "But you won't
58let him strike me?" she cried. "Come, then," he whispered earnestly. It was too late: Heathcliff had caught hold of her.
59"Now, you go!" he said to Earnshaw. "Accursed witch! this time she has provoked me when I could not bear it; and I'll
60make her repent it for ever!" He had his hand in her hair; Hareton attempted to release her locks, entreating him not to
61hurt her that once. Heathcliff's black eyes flashed; he seemed ready to tear Catherine in pieces, and I was just worked
62up to risk coming to the rescue, when of a sudden his fingers relaxed; he shifted his grasp from her head to her arm,
63and gazed intently in her face. Then he drew his hand over his eyes, stood a moment to collect himself apparently, and
64turning anew to Catherine, said, with assumed calmness--"You must learn to avoid putting me in a passion, or I shall
65really murder you some time! Go with Mrs. Dean, and keep with her; and confine your insolence to her ears. As to Hareton
66Earnshaw, if I see him listen to you, I'll send him seeking his bread where he can get it! Your love will make him an
67outcast and a beggar. Nelly, take her; and leave me, all of you! Leave me!" I led my young lady out: she was too glad of
68her escape to resist; the other followed, and Mr. Heathcliff had the room to himself till dinner. I had counselled
69Catherine to dine upstairs; but, as soon as he perceived her vacant seat, he sent me to call her. He spoke to none of
70us, ate very little, and went out directly afterwards, intimating that he should not return before evening.
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