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Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë - Part 2/2 · Audiobooks & Scary Stories

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  Speaker 1: Cruel man. But you're not a fiend, and you won't
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  Speaker 1: from mere malice destroy irrevocably all my happiness. If Papa
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  Speaker 1: thought I had left him on purpose, and if he
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  Speaker 1: died before I returned, could I bear to live? I've
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  Speaker 1: given over crying. But I'm going to kneel here at
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  Speaker 1: your knee, and I'll not get up, and I'll not
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  Speaker 1: take my eyes from your face till you look back
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  Speaker 1: at me. No, don't turn away. Do look. You'll see
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  Speaker 1: nothing to provoke you. I don't hate you. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: angry that you struck me. Have you never loved anybody
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  Speaker 1: in all your life? Uncle? Never? Ah, you must look once.
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  Speaker 1: I'm so wretched you can't help being sorry and pitying me.
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  Speaker 1: Keep your f's fingers off and move, or I'll kick you,
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  Speaker 1: cried Heathcliff, brutally repulsing her. I'd rather be hugged by
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  Speaker 1: a snake. How the devil can you dream of fawning
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  Speaker 1: on me? I detest you. He shrugged his shoulders, shook himself, indeed,
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  Speaker 1: as if his flesh crept with aversion, and thrust back
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  Speaker 1: his chair while I got up and opened my mouth
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  Speaker 1: to commence a downright torrent of abuse. But I was
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  Speaker 1: rendered dumb in the middle of the first sentence by
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  Speaker 1: a threat that I should be shown into a room
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  Speaker 1: by myself. The very next syllable, I uttered, it was
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  Speaker 1: growing dark. We heard a sound of voices at the
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  Speaker 1: garden gate. Our host hurried out instantly. He had his
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  Speaker 1: wits about him, we had not. There was a talk
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  Speaker 1: of two or three minutes, and he returned alone. I
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  Speaker 1: thought it had been your cousin hair Ton, I observed
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  Speaker 1: to Catherine. I wish he would arrive. Who knows, but
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  Speaker 1: he might take our part. It was three servants sent
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  Speaker 1: to seek you from the grange, said Heathcliff overhearing me.
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  Speaker 1: You should have opened a lattice and called out, But
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  Speaker 1: I could swear that chit is glad you didn't. She's
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  Speaker 1: glad to be obliged to stay. I'm certain. At learning
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  Speaker 1: the chance we had missed, we both gave vent to
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  Speaker 1: our grief without control, and he allowed us to wail
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  Speaker 1: on till nine o'clock. Then he bid us go upstairs
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  Speaker 1: through the kitchen to Zillah's chamber, and I whispered my
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  Speaker 1: companion to obey. Perhaps we might contrive to get through
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  Speaker 1: the window there or into a garret and out by
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  Speaker 1: its skylight. The window, however, was narrow like those below,
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  Speaker 1: and the garret trap was saved from our attempts, for
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  Speaker 1: we were fastened in as before we neither of us
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  Speaker 1: lay down. Catherine took her station by the lattice and
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  Speaker 1: watched anxiously for morning, a deep sigh being the only
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  Speaker 1: answer I could obtain to my frequent entreaties that she
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  Speaker 1: would try to rest. I seated myself in a chair
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  Speaker 1: and rocked to and fro, passing harsh judgment on my
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  Speaker 1: many derelictions of duty from which it struck me. Then
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  Speaker 1: all the misfortunes of my employer sprang. It was not
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  Speaker 1: the case in reality, I am aware, but it was
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  Speaker 1: in my imagination that dismal night, and I thought Heathcliff
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  Speaker 1: himself less guilty than I. At seven o'clock he came
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  Speaker 1: and inquired if miss Linton had risen. She ran to
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  Speaker 1: the door immediately and answered yes. Here, then he said,
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  Speaker 1: opening it and pulling her out. I rose to follow,
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  Speaker 1: but he turned the lock again. I demanded my release.
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  Speaker 1: Be patient, he replied, I'll send up your breakfast in
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  Speaker 1: a while. I thumped on the panels and rattled the
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  Speaker 1: latch angrily, and Catherine asked why I was still shut up.
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  Speaker 1: He answered, I must try to endure it another hour,
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  Speaker 1: and they went away. I endured it two or three hours.
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  Speaker 1: At length, I heard a footstep, not Heathcliff's. I've brought
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  Speaker 1: you something to eat, said a voice, op and tea door.
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  Speaker 1: Complying eagerly, I beheld her ton, laden with food enough
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  Speaker 1: to last me all day. Tack it, he added, thrusting
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  Speaker 1: the tray into my hand. Stay one minute, I began. Nay,
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  Speaker 1: cried he and retired, regardless of any prayers I could
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  Speaker 1: pour forth to detain him. And there I remained and
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  Speaker 1: closed the whole day, and the whole of the next night,
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  Speaker 1: and another, and another. Five nights and four days. I
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  Speaker 1: remained altogether, seeing nobody but hair Tun once every morning.
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  Speaker 1: And he was a model of a jailer, surly and
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  Speaker 1: dumb and deaf to every attempt at moving his sense
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  Speaker 1: of justice or compassion Chapter twenty eight. On the fifth morning,
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  Speaker 1: or rather afternoon, a different step approached, lighter and shorter,
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  Speaker 1: and this time the person entered the room. It was Zillah,
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  Speaker 1: donned in her scarlet shawl with a black silk bonnet
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  Speaker 1: on her head and a willow basket swung to her arm.
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  Speaker 1: Eh dear missus Dean, she exclaimed, Well, there is a
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  Speaker 1: talk about you at Gimmerton. I never thought, but you
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  Speaker 1: were sunk in the black Horse marsh and Missy with
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  Speaker 1: you till Master told me you'd been found and he'd
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  Speaker 1: lodge you here? What? And you must have got on
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  Speaker 1: an island? Sure? And how long were you in the hole?
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  Speaker 1: Did Master save you? Missus Dean? But you're not so thin.
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  Speaker 1: You've not been so poorly, have you. Your master is
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  Speaker 1: a true scoundrel, I replied, But he shall answer for it.
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  Speaker 1: He needn't have raised that tail. It shall all be
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  Speaker 1: laid bare. What do you mean, asked Zillah. It's not
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  Speaker 1: his tale. They tell that in a village about your
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  Speaker 1: being lost in the marsh, and I calls to Earnshaw.
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  Speaker 1: When I come in, they s queer things, mister Hareton
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  Speaker 1: happened since I went off. It's a sad pity of that,
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  Speaker 1: likely young lass. And can't Nelly Dean, he stared. I
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  Speaker 1: thought he had not heard aught, so I told him
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  Speaker 1: the rumor. The Master listened, and he just smiled to
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  Speaker 1: himself and said, if they have been in the marsh,
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  Speaker 1: they are out now. Zillah, Nellie Dean is lost touched
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  Speaker 1: at this minute in your room. You can tell her
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  Speaker 1: to flit when you go up. Here is the key.
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  Speaker 1: The bog water got into her head and she would
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  Speaker 1: have run home quite flighty, but I fixed her till
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  Speaker 1: she came round to her senses. You can bid her
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  Speaker 1: go to the grange at once if she be able,
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  Speaker 1: and carry a message from me that her young lady
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  Speaker 1: will follow in time to attend the squire's funeral. Mister
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  Speaker 1: Edgar is not dead. I gasped, Oh, zillah, zillah. No, no,
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  Speaker 1: sit you down, my good mistress. She replied, you're right sickly.
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  Speaker 1: Yet he's not dead. Doctor Kenneth thinks he may last
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  Speaker 1: another day. I met him on the road and asked,
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  Speaker 1: instead of sitting down, I snatched my outdoor things and
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  Speaker 1: hastened below, for the way was free. On entering the house,
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  Speaker 1: I looked about for some one to give information of Catherine.
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  Speaker 1: The place was filled with sunshine and the door stood
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  Speaker 1: wide open, but nobody seemed at hand. As I hesitated
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  Speaker 1: whether to go off at once or return and seek
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  Speaker 1: my mistress. A slight cough drew my attention to the hearth.
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  Speaker 1: Linton lay on the settle, sole tenant, sucking a stick
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  Speaker 1: of sugar candy and pursuing my movements with apathetic eyes.
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  Speaker 1: Where is miss Catherine, I demanded, sternly, supposing I could
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  Speaker 1: frighten him into giving intelligence by catching him thus alone,
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  Speaker 1: he sucked on like an innocent Is she gone? I said, no,
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  Speaker 1: He replied, she's upstairs. She's not to go. We won't
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  Speaker 1: let her. You won't let her, little idiot, I exclaimed,
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  Speaker 1: Direct me to her room immediately, or I'll make you
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  Speaker 1: sing out sharply. Papa would make you sing out if
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  Speaker 1: you attempted to get there, he answered. He says, I'm
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  Speaker 1: not to be soft with Catherine. She's my wife, and
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  Speaker 1: it's shameful that she should wish to leave me. He says.
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  Speaker 1: She hates me and wants me to die. That she
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  Speaker 1: may have my money, but she shan't have it, and
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  Speaker 1: she shan't go home. She never shall. She may cry
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  Speaker 1: and be sick as much as she pleases. He resumed
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  Speaker 1: his former occupation, closing his lids as if he meant
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  Speaker 1: to drop asleep. Master Heathcliff I resumed. Have you forgotten
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  Speaker 1: all Catherine's kindness to you last winter, when you affirmed
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  Speaker 1: you loved her, and when she brought you books and
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  Speaker 1: sung you songs and came many a time through wind
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  Speaker 1: and snow to see you. She wept to miss one
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  Speaker 1: evening because you would be disappointed. And you felt then
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  Speaker 1: that she was a hundred times too good to you.
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  Speaker 1: And now you believe the lies your father tells, though
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  Speaker 1: you know he detests you both, and you join him
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  Speaker 1: against her. That's fine gratitude, is it not? The corner
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  Speaker 1: of Linton's mouth fell and he took the sugar candy
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  Speaker 1: from his lips. Did she come to Wuthering Heights because
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  Speaker 1: she hated you? I continued, Think for yourself as to
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  Speaker 1: your money, she does not even know that you will
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  Speaker 1: have any, and you say she's sick, and yet you
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  Speaker 1: leave her alone up there in a strange house, You
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  Speaker 1: who have felt what it is to be so neglected.
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  Speaker 1: You could pity your own sufferings, and she pitied them too,
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  Speaker 1: but you won't pity hers. I shed tears, Master Heathcliff.
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  Speaker 1: You see an elderly woman and a servant merely, and you,
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  Speaker 1: after pretending such affection and having reason to worship her.
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  Speaker 1: Almost store every tear you have for yourself and lie
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  Speaker 1: there quite at ease. Ah, you're a heartless, selfish boy.
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  Speaker 1: I can't stay with her, he answered crossly. I'll not
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  Speaker 1: stay by myself. She cries, so I can't bear it,
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  Speaker 1: and she won't give over, though I say I'll call
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  Speaker 1: my father. I did call him once, and he threatened
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  Speaker 1: to strangle her if she was not quiet, but she
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  Speaker 1: began again the instant. He left the room, moaning and
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  Speaker 1: grieving all night long, though I scream for vexation that
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't sleep. Is mister Heathcliffe out? I inquired, perceiving
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  Speaker 1: that the wretched creature had no power to sympathize with
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  Speaker 1: his cousin's mental tortures. He's in the court, he replied,
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  Speaker 1: talking to doctor Kenneth, who says uncle is dying truly
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  Speaker 1: at last. I'm glad for I shall be master of
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  Speaker 1: the Grange after him. Catherine always spoke of it as
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  Speaker 1: her house. It isn't hers, it's mine, Papa says. Everything
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  Speaker 1: she has is mine. All her nice books are mine.
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  Speaker 1: She offered to give me them, and her pretty birds
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  Speaker 1: and her pony Minnie if I would get the key
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  Speaker 1: of our room and let her out. But I told
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  Speaker 1: her she had nothing to give. They were all all mine.
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  Speaker 1: And then she cried and took a little picture from
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  Speaker 1: her neck and said I should have that two pictures
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  Speaker 1: in a gold case, on one side, her mother and
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  Speaker 1: on the other uncle, when they were young, That was yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: I said they were mine too, and try to get
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  Speaker 1: them from her. The spiteful thing wouldn't let me. She
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  Speaker 1: pushed me off and hurt me. I shrieked out that
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  Speaker 1: frightens her. She heard Papa coming, and she broke the
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  Speaker 1: hinges and divided the case and gave me her mother's
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  Speaker 1: portrait the other she attempted to hide, but Papa asked
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  Speaker 1: what was the matter, and I explained it. He took
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  Speaker 1: the one I had away and ordered her to resign
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  Speaker 1: hers to me. She refused, and he he struck her
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  Speaker 1: down and wrenched it off the chain and crushed it
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  Speaker 1: with his foot. And were you pleased to see her struck?
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  Speaker 1: I asked, Having my designs in encouraging his talk, I winked,
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  Speaker 1: he answered, I wink to see my father strike a
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  Speaker 1: dog or a horse. He does it so hard. Yet
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  Speaker 1: I was glad. At first she deserved punishing for pushing me,
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  Speaker 1: But when Papa was gone, she made me come to
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  Speaker 1: the window and showed me her cheek cut on the
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  Speaker 1: inside against her teeth, and her mouth filling with blood.
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  Speaker 1: And then she gathered up the bits of the picture
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  Speaker 1: and went and sat down with her face to the wall.
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  Speaker 1: And she has never spoken to me since. And I
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  Speaker 1: sometimes think she can't speak for pain. I don't like
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  Speaker 1: to think so, but she's a naughty thing for crying continually,
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  Speaker 1: and she looks so pale and wild. I'm afraid of her.
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  Speaker 1: And you can get the key if you choose, I said, yes,
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  Speaker 1: when I am upstairs, he answered, But I can't walk
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  Speaker 1: upstairs now. In what apartment is it? I asked, Oh,
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  Speaker 1: he cried, I shan't tell you where it is. It
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  Speaker 1: is our secret. Nobody, neither Hairtun nor Zillah is to know. There.
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  Speaker 1: You've tired me. Go away, Go away, And he turned
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  Speaker 1: his face on to his arm and shut his eyes again.
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  Speaker 1: I considered it best to depart without seeing mister Heathcliff
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  Speaker 1: and bring a rescue for my young lady from the grange.
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  Speaker 1: On reaching it, the astonishment of my fellow servants to
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  Speaker 1: see me, and their joy also was intent. And when
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  Speaker 1: they heard that their little mistress was safe, two or
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  Speaker 1: three were about to hurry up and shout the news
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  Speaker 1: at mister Edgar's door. But I bespoke the announcement of
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  Speaker 1: it myself. How changed I found him, even in those
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  Speaker 1: few days, he lay an image of sadness and resignation,
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  Speaker 1: awaiting his death. Very young he looked, though his actual
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  Speaker 1: age was thirty nine, one would have called him ten
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  Speaker 1: years younger. At least he thought of Catherine, for he
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  Speaker 1: murmured her name. I touched his hand and spoke, Catherine
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  Speaker 1: is coming, dear master, I whispered, She is alive and
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  Speaker 1: well and will be here I hope tonight. I trembled
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  Speaker 1: at the first effects of this intelligence. He half rose up,
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  Speaker 1: looked eagerly round the apartment, and then sank back in
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  Speaker 1: a swoon. As soon as he recovered. I related our
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  Speaker 1: compulsory visit and attention at the heights. I said Heathcliff
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  Speaker 1: forced me to go in, which was not quite true.
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  Speaker 1: I uttered as little as possible against Lynton, nor did
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  Speaker 1: I describe all his father's brutal conduct, my intentions being
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  Speaker 1: to add no bitterness if I could help it to
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  Speaker 1: his already overflowing cup. He divined that one of his
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  Speaker 1: enemy's purposes was to secure the personal property as well
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  Speaker 1: as the estate to his son, or rather himself. Yet
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  Speaker 1: why he did not wait till his decease was a
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  Speaker 1: puzzle to my master, because ignorant how nearly he and
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  Speaker 1: his nephew would quit the world together. However, he felt
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  Speaker 1: that his will had better be altered. Instead of leaving
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  Speaker 1: Catherine's fortune at her own disposal, he determined to put
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  Speaker 1: it in the hands of trustees for her use during
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  Speaker 1: life and for her children if she had any after her.
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  Speaker 1: By that means, it could not fall to mister Heathcliffe
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  Speaker 1: should Linton die. Having received his orders, I despatched a
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  Speaker 1: man to fetch the attorney, and four more, provided with
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  Speaker 1: serviceable weapons, to demand my young lady of her jailer.
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  Speaker 1: Both parties were delayed very late. This single servant returned first,
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  Speaker 1: he said, mister Green, the lawyer, was out when he
• 15:03
  Speaker 1: arrived at his house, and he had to wait two
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  Speaker 1: hours for his re entrance. And then mister Green told
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  Speaker 1: him he had a little business in the village that
• 15:10
  Speaker 1: must be done, but he would be at Thrushcross Grange.
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: Before morning the four men came back unaccompanied. Also, they
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  Speaker 1: brought word that Catherine was ill, too ill to quit
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  Speaker 1: her room, and Heathcliff would not suffer them to see her.
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  Speaker 1: I scolded the stupid fellows well for listening to that tale,
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  Speaker 1: which I would not carry to my master, resolving to
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  Speaker 1: take a whole bevy up to the heights at daylight
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  Speaker 1: and storm it literally. Unless the prisoner were quietly surrendered
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  Speaker 1: to us. Her father shall see her, I vowed, and
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  Speaker 1: vowed again if that devil be killed on his own
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  Speaker 1: door stones in trying to prevent it. Happily I was
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  Speaker 1: spared the journey and the trouble. I had gone downstairs
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  Speaker 1: at three o'clock to fetch a jug of water, and
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: was passing through the hall with it in my hand,
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  Speaker 1: when a sharp knock at the front door made me jump.
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  Speaker 1: Oh it is green, I said, recollecting myself only green,
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  Speaker 1: and I went on, intending to send somebody else to
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  Speaker 1: open it. But the knock was repeated, not loud, and
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  Speaker 1: still importunately. I put the jug on the banister and
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  Speaker 1: hastened to admit him myself. The harvest moon shone clear
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  Speaker 1: outside it was not the attorney. My own sweet little
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: mistress sprang on my neck, sobbing, Ellen, Ellen, is Papa alive? Yes,
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  Speaker 1: I cried, Yes, my angel, he is. God, be thanked
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  Speaker 1: you are safe with us again. She wanted to run
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  Speaker 1: breathless as she was upstairs to mister Linton's room. But
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: I compelled her to sit down on a chair, and
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: made her drink and washed her pale face, chafing it
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  Speaker 1: into a faint color with my apron. Then I said
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  Speaker 1: I must go first and tell of her arrival, imploring
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  Speaker 1: her to say she should be happy with young Heathcliff.
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  Speaker 1: She stared, but soon comprehending why, I counseled her to
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  Speaker 1: utter the falsehood. She assured me she would not complain.
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't abide to be present at their meeting. I
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  Speaker 1: stood outside the chamber door a quarter of an hour,
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  Speaker 1: and hardly ventured near the bed. Then all was composed. However,
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  Speaker 1: Catherine's despair was as silent as her father's joy. She
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  Speaker 1: supported him calmly in appearance, and he fixed on her
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  Speaker 1: features his raised eyes that seemed dilating with ecstasy. He
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  Speaker 1: died blissfully, mister Lockwood, He died so kissing her cheek.
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  Speaker 1: He murmured, I am going to her, and you, darling child,
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  Speaker 1: shall come to us, and never stirred or spoke again,
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  Speaker 1: but continued that rapt, radiant gaze till his pulse imperceptibly
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  Speaker 1: stopped and his soul departed. None could have noticed the
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  Speaker 1: exact minute of his death. It was so entirely without
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: a struggle, whether Catherine had spent her tears or whether
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  Speaker 1: the grief were too weighty to let them flow. She
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  Speaker 1: sat there, dry eyed till the sun rose. She sat
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  Speaker 1: till noon, and would still have remained brooding over that
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: death bed, But I insisted on her coming away and
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: taking some repose. It was well I succeeded in removing her,
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: for at dinner time appeared the lawyer, having called at
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: Wuthering Heights to get his instructions how to behave He
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: had sold himself to mister Heathcliffe. That was the cause
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: of his delay in obeying my master's summons. Fortunately, no
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: thought of worldly affairs crossed the latter's mind to disturb him.
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: After his daughter's arrival, mister Green took upon himself to
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: order everything and everybody about the place. He gave all
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: the servants, but me notice to quit. He would have
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: carried his delegated authority to the point of insisting that
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: Edgar Linton should not be buried beside his wife, but
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: in the chapel with his family. There was the will, however,
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: to hinder that, and my loud protestations against any infringement
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  Speaker 1: of its directions, the funeral was hurried over. Catherine, missus
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: Linton Heathcliffe now was suffered to stay at the grange
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: till her corpse had quitted it. She told me that
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: her anguish had at last spurred Linton to incur the
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: risk of liberating her. She heard the men I sent
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: disputing at the door, and she gathered the sense of
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: Heathcliff's answer. It drove her desperate. Linton, who had been
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: conveyed up to the little parlor soon after I left,
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: was terrified into fetching the key before his father reascended.
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: He had the cunning to unlock and re lock the
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: door without shutting it, And when he should have gone
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: to bed, he begged to sleep with hair Ton, and
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: his petition was granted. For once Catherine stole out before
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: break of day, she dared not try the doors, lest
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: the dog should raise an alarm. She visited the empty
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: chambers and examined their windows, and, luckily, lighting on her mother's,
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: she got easily out of its lattice and on to
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: the ground by means of the fir tree close by.
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: Her accomplice suffered for his share in the escape, notwithstanding
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: his timid contrivances. Chapter twenty nine. The evening after the
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: fu funeral, My young lady and I were seated in
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: the library, now musing mournfully, one of us despairingly on
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: our loss, now venturing conjectures as to the gloomy future
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: we had just agreed. The best destiny which could await
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: Catherine would be a permission to continue resident at the grange,
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: at least during Linton's life, he being allowed to join
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: her there and I to remain as housekeeper. That seemed
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: rather too favorable an arrangement to be hoped for. And
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: yet I did hope, and began to cheer up under
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: the prospect of retaining my home and my employment, and
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: above all my beloved young mistress. When a servant, one
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: of the discarded ones not yet departed, rushed hastily in
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: and said that devil Heathcliff was coming through the court,
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: should he fasten the door in his face. If we
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: had been mad enough to order that proceeding, we had
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: not time. He made no ceremony of knocking or announcing
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: his name. He was master, and availed himself of the
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: master's privilege to walk straight in without saying a word.
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: The sound of our informant's voice directed him to the library.
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: He entered, and, motioning him out, shut the door. It
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: was the same room into which he had been ushered
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: as a guest eighteen years before. The same moon shone
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: through the window, and the same autumn landscape lay outside.
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: We had not yet lighted a candle, but all the
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: apartment was visible, even to the portraits on the wall.
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: The splendid head of Missus Linton and the graceful one
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: of her husband. Heathcliff advanced to the hearth. Time had
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: little altered his person either. There was the same man,
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: his dark face rather sallower and more composed, his frame
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: a stone or too heavier, perhaps, and no other difference.
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: Catherine had risen with an impulse to dash out when
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: she saw him. Stop, he said, arresting her by the arm.
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: No more runnings away? Where would you go? I'm come
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: to fetch you home, and I hope you'll be a
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: dutiful daughter and not encourage my son to further disobedience.
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: I was embarrassed how to punish him when I discovered
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: his part in the business. He's such a cobweb. A
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: pinch would annihilate him. But you'll see by his look
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: that he has received his due. I brought him down
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: one evening the day before yesterday and just set him
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: in a chair and never touched him. Afterwards, I sent
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: hair Ton out and we had the room to ourselves.
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: In two hours, I called Joseph to carry him up again.
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: And since then my presence is as potent on his
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: nerves as a ghost, and I fancy he sees me
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: often though I am not near. Hair Toun says, he
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: wakes and shrieks in the night, by the hour together
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: and calls you to protect him from me. And whether
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: you like your precious mate or not, you must come.
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: He's your concern. Now. I yield all my interest in
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: him to you. Why not let Catherine continue here, I pleaded,
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: and send Master Linton to her. As you hate them both,
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: you've not missed them. They can only be a daily
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: play to your unnatural heart. I'm seeking a tenant for
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: the grange, he answered, and I want my children about me,
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: to be sure. Besides that last owes me her services
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: for her bread. I'm not going to nurture her in
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: luxury and idleness. After Linton is gone, make haste and
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: get ready now, and don't oblige me to compel you.
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: I shall, said Catherine. Linton is all I have to
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: love in the world. And though you have done what
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: you could to make him hateful to me and me
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: to him, you cannot make us hate each other. And
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: I defy you to hurt him when I am by,
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: and I defy you to frighten me. You are a
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: boastful champion, replied Heathcliff. But I don't like you well
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: enough to hurt him. You shall get the full benefit
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: of the torment as long as it lasts. It is
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: not I who will make him hateful to you. It
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: is his own sweet spirit. He's as bitter as gall
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: at your desertion and its consequences. Don't expect thanks for
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: this noble devotion. I heard him draw a pleasant picture
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: to Zillah of what he would do if you were
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: as strong as the inclination is there, and his very
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: weakness will sharpen his wits to find a substitute for strength.
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: I know he has a bad nature, said Catherine. He's
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: your son, but I'm glad I've a better to forgive it.
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: And I know he loves me, and for that reason
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: I love him. Mister Heathcliff, you have nobody to love you,
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: And however miserable you make us, we shall still have
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: the revenge of thinking that your cruelty arises from your
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: greater misery. You are miserable, are you not lonely like
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: the devil, and envious like him? Nobody loves you, Nobody
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: will cry for you when you die. I wouldn't be you,
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: Catherine spoke, with a kind of dreary triumph. She seemed
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: to have made up her mind to enter into the
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: spirit of her future family and draw pleasure from the
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: griefs of her enemies. You shall be sorry to be
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: yourself presently, said her father in law. If you stand
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: there another minute, begone which and get your things, She
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: scorned fully withdrew in her absence. I began to beg
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: for Zillah's place at the heights, offering to resign mine
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: to her, but he would suffer it on no account.
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: He bid me be silent, and then for the first
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: time allowed himself a glance round the room and a
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: look at the pictures. Having studied missus Linton's, he said,
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: I shall have that home, not because I need it.
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: But he turned abruptly to the fire and continued with what,
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: for lack of a better word, I must call a smile.
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: I'll tell you what I did yesterday. I got the
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: sexton who was digging Linton's grave to remove the earth
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: off her coffin lid, and I opened it. I thought
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: once I would have stayed there. When I saw her
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: face again, it is hers. Yet he had hard work
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: to stir me, but he said it would change if
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: the air blew on it. And so I struck one
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: side of the coffin loose and covered it up, not
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: Linton's side, damn him. I wish he'd been soldered in lead.
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: And I bribed the sexton to pull it away when
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: I'm laid there and slide mine out too. I'll have
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: it made so, and then by the time Linton gets
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: to us, he'll not know which is which. You were
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: very wicked mister Heathcliff, I exclaimed, were you not ashamed
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: to disturb the dead? I disturbed nobody, Nellie, he replied,
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: and I gave some ease to myself. I shall be
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: a great deal more comfortable now, and you'll have a
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: better chance of keeping me underground when I get there.
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: Disturbed her? No, she has disturbed me night and day
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: through eighteen years, incessantly, remorselessly till yesternight. And yesternight I
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: was tranquil. I dreamt I was sleeping the last sleep
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: by that sleeper, with my heart stopped and my cheek
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: frozen against hers. And if she had been dissolved into
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: earth or worse, what would you have dreamt of them?
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: I said, of dissolving with her and being more happy? Still,
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: he answered, do you suppose I dread any change of
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: that sort? I expected such a transformation on raising the lid,
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: but I'm better pleased that it should not commence till
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: I share it. Besides, unless I had received a distinct
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: impression of her passionless features, that strange feeling would hardly
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: have been removed. It began oddly, You know, I was
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: wild after she died, and eternally from dawn to dawn,
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: praying her to return to me her spirit. I have
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: a strong faith in ghosts. I have a conviction that
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: they can and do exist among us. The day she
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: was buried, there came a fall of snow. In the evening.
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: I went to the churchyard a blue bleak as winter
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: all round was solitary. I didn't fear that her fool
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: of a husband would wander up the glen so late,
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: and no one else had business to bring them there.
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: Being alone and conscious, two yards of loose earth was
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: the sole barrier between us. I said to myself, I'll
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: have her in my arms again. If she be cold,
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: I'll think it is this north wind that chills me.
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: And if she be motionless, it is sleep. I got
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: a spade from the tool house and began to delve
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: with all my might. It scraped the coffin. I fell
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: to work with my hands. The wood commenced, cracking about
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: the screws. I was on the point of attaining my
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: object when it seemed that I heard a sigh from
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: some one above, close at the edge of the grave
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: and bending down. If I can only get this off,
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: I muttered, I wish they may shovel in the earth
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: over us both, and I wrenched at it more desperately. Still,
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: there was another sigh close at my ear. I appeared
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: to feel the warm breath of it, displacing the sleet
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: laden wind. I knew no living thing in flesh and
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: blood was by, but as certainly as you perceived the
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: approach to some substantial body in the dark, though it
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: cannot be discerned, so certainly I felt that Cathy was there,
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: not under me, but on the earth. A sudden sense
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: of relief flowed from my heart through every limb. I
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: relinquished my labor of agony and turned consoled at once,
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: unspeakably consoled. Her presence was with me. It remained while
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: I read filled the grave and led me home. You
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: may laugh if you will, but I was sure I
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: should see her there. I was sure she was with me,
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: and I could not help talking to her. Having reached
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: the heights, I rushed eagerly to the door. It was fastened,
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: and I remember that a curse at Earnshaw and my
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: wife opposed my entrance. I remember stopping to kick the
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: breath out of him, and then hurrying upstairs to my
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: room and hers. I looked round impatiently. I felt her
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: by me, I could almost see her, and yet I
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: could not. I ought to have sweat blood. Then, from
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: the anguish of my yearning, from the fervor of my supplications,
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: to have but one glimpse, I had not one. She
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: showed herself, as she often was in life, a devil
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: to me. And since then, sometimes more and sometimes left,
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: I've been the sport of that intolerable torture, infernal keeping
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: my nerves at such a stretch that, if they had
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: not resembled catgut, they would long ago have relaxed to
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: the feebleness of Linton's. When I sat in the house
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: with hair Ton, it seemed that on going out I
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: should meet her. When I walked on the moors, I
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: should meet her coming in. When I went from home,
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: I hastened to return. She must be somewhere at the heights,
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: I was certain. And when I slept in her chamber,
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: I was beaten out of that. I couldn't lie there
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: for the moment I closed my eyes, she was either
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: outside the window, or sliding back the panels, or entering
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: the room, or even resting her darling head on the
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: same pillow as she did when a child, and I
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: must open my lids to see, And so I opened
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: and closed them a hundred times a night, to be
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: always disappointed. It racked me. I've often groaned aloud till
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: that old rascal Joseph no doubt believed that my conscience
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: was playing the fiend inside of me. Now, since I've
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: seen her, I'm pacified a little. It was a strange
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: way of killing, not by inches, but by fractions of
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: hair breadths, to beguile me with the specter of a
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: hope through eighteen years. Mister Heathcliff paused and wiped his forehead.
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: His hair clung to it, wet with perspiration. His eyes
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: were fixed on the red embers of the fire, the
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: brows not contracted, but raised next the temples, diminishing the
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: grim aspect of his countenance, but imparting a peculiar look
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: of trouble and a painful appearance of mental tension towards
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: one absorbing subject. He only half addressed me, and I
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: maintained silence. I didn't like to hear him talk. After
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: a short period, he resumed his meditation on the picture,
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: took it down, and lean it against the sofa to
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: contemplate it at better advantage, And while so occupied, Catherine entered,
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: announcing that she was ready when her pony should be saddled.
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: Send that over tomorrow, said Heathcliff to me. Then turning
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: to her, he added, you they do without your pony.
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: It is a fine evening, and you'll need no ponies
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: at Wuthering Heights. For what journeys you take, your own
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: feet will serve you. Come along, good bye, Ellen, whispered
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: my dear little mistress. As she kissed me. Her lips
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: felt like ice. Come and see me, Ellen, don't forget
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: take care. You do no such thing. Missus Dean, said
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: her new father. When I wish to speak to you,
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: I'll come here. I want none of your prying at
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: my house. He signed her to precede him, and, casting
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: back a look that cut my heart, she obeyed. I
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: watched them from the window walk down the garden. Heathcliff
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: fixed Catherine's arm under his, though she disputed the act
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: at first, Evidently and with rapid strides, he hurried her
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: into the alley, whose trees concealed them. Chapter thirty. I
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: have paid a visit to the Heights, but I have
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: not seen her since she left. Joseph held the door
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: in his hand when I called to ask after her,
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: and wouldn't let me pass. He said, missus Linton was
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: thrang and the Master was not in. Zillah has told
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: me something of the way they go on. Otherwise I
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: should hardly know who was dead and who living. She
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: thinks Catherine haughty and does not like her. I can
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: guess by her talk. My young lady asked some aid
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: of her when she first came, but mister Heathcliffe told
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: her to follow her own business and let his daughter
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: in law look after herself, and Zillah willingly acquiesced. Being
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: a narrow minded, selfish woman, Catherine evinced a child's annoyance
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: at this neglect, repaid it with contempt, and thus enlisted
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: my informant among her enemies as securely as if she
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: had done her some great wrong. I had a long
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: talk with Zillah about six weeks ago, a little before
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: you came, one day when we foregathered on the moor,
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: and this is what she told me. The first thing
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: missus Linton did, she said, on her arrival at the Heights,
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: was to run upstairs without even wishing good evening, to
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: me and Joseph. She shut herself into Linton's room and
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: remained till morning. Then, while the Master and Earnshaw were
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: at breakfast, she entered the house and asked all in
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: a quiver if the doctor might be sent for her
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: cousin was very ill, we know that, answered Heathcliff. But
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: his life is not worth a farthing, and I won't
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: spend a farthing on him. But I cannot tell how
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: to do, she said, And if nobody will help me,
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: he'll die. Walk out of the room, cried the Master,
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: and let me never hear a word more about him.
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: None here care what becomes of him if you do
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: act the nurse, if you do not lock him up
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: and leave him. Then she began to bother me, and
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: I said, I'd had enough plague with the tiresome thing.
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: We each had our tasks, and hers was to wait
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: on Linton. Mister Heathcliffe bid me leave that labor to her.
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: How they managed together, I can't tell. I fancy. He
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: fretted a great deal and moaned hissel night and day,
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: and she had precious little rest. One could guess by
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: her her white face and heavy eyes. She sometimes came
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: into the kitchen, all wilder like, and looked as if
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: she would faint beg assistance. But I was not going
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: to disobey the master. I never dared disobey him, Missus Dean.
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: And though I thought it wrong that Kenneth should not
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: be sent for it was no concern of mine either
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: to advise or complain, and I always refused to meddle.
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: Once or twice after we had gone to bed, I've
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: happened to open my door again and seen her sitting
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: crying on the stairs top. And then I've shut myself
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: in quick for fear of being moved to interfere. I
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: did pity her then, I'm sure still I didn't wish
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: to lose my place, you know. At last one night
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: she came boldly into my chamber and frightened me out
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: of my wits by saying, tell mister Heathcliff that his
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: son is dying. I'm sure he is this time, get
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: up instantly and tell him. Having uttered this speech, she
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: vanished again. I lay a quarter of an hour listening
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: and trembling. Nothing stirred. The house was quiet. She's mistaken,
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: I said to myself. He's got over it. I needn't
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: disturb them, and I began to doze, but my sleep
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: was marred a second time by a sharp ringing of
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: the bell, the only bell we have put up on
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: purpose for Linton. And the Master called to me to
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: see what was the matter, and informed them that he
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: wouldn't have that noise repeated. I delivered Catherine's message. He
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: cursed to himself, and in a few minutes came out
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: with a lighted candle and proceeded to their room. I followed.
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: Missus Heathcliffe was seated by the bedside with her hands
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: folded on her knees. Her father in law went up,
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: held the light to Linton's face, looked at him, and
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: touched him. Afterwards, he turned to her, now, Catherine, he said,
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: how do you feel? She was dumb. How do you feel, Catherine?
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: He repeated, He's safe and I'm free. She answered, I
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: should feel well, but she continued with a bitterness. She
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: couldn't conceal you have left me so long to struggle
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: against death alone, that I feel and see only death.
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: I feel like death, and she looked like it too.
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: I gave her a little wine. Hair Ton and Joseph,
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: who had been wakened by the ringing and the sound
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: of feet, and heard our talk from outside. Now entered
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: Joseph was fain, I believe of the lad's removal. Hare
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: Ton seemed a thought bothered, though he was more taken
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: up with staring at Catherine than thinking of Linton. But
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: the Master bid him get off to bed again. We
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: didn't want his help. He afterwards made Joseph remove the
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: body to his chamber and told me to return to
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: mine and missus Heathcliff remained by herself. In the morning.
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: He sent me to tell her she must come down
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: to breakfast. She had undressed and appeared going to sleep,
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: and said she was ill, at which I hardly wondered.
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: I informed mister Heathcliff, and he replied, well, let her
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: be till after the funeral, and go up now and
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: then to get her what is needful, and as soon
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: as she seems better tell me. Cathy stayed upstairs a fortnight,
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: according to Zillah, who visited her twice a day, and
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: would have been rather more friendly, but her attempts at
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: increasing kindness were proudly and promptly repelled. Heathcliff went up
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: once to show her Linton's will. He had bequeathed the
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: whole of his and what had been her movable property
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: to his father. The poor creature was threatened or coaxed
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: into that act during her week's absence when his uncle died.
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: The lands being a miner, he could not meddle with. However,
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: mister Heathcliffe has claimed and kept them in his wife's right,
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: and is also I suppose legally at any rate, Catherine,
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: destitute of cash and friends, cannot disturb his possession. Nobody
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: said Zillah ever approached her door, except that once but
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: I and nobody asked anything about her. The first occasion
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: of her coming down into the house was on a
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: Sunday afternoon. She had cried out when I carried up
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: her dinner, that she couldn't bear any longer being in
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: the cold, And I told her the Master was going
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: to Thrushcross Grange and Earnshaw, and I needn't hinder her
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: from descending. So as soon as she heard Heathcliff's horse
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: trot off, she made her appearance, donned in black, and
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: her yellow curls combed back behind her ears as plain
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: as a Quaker. She couldn't comb them out. Joseph and
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: I generally go to chapel on Sundays. The kirk you
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: know has no minister, now, explained Missus Dean, and they
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: call the Methodists or Baptist's place. I can't say which
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: it is. At Gimmerton a chapel, Joseph had gone, she continued,
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: but I thought proper to bide at home. Young folks
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: are always the better for an elder's overlooking and hair Ton,
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: with all his bashfulness, isn't a model of nice behavior.
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: I let him know that his cousin would very likely
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: sit with us, and she had been always used to
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: see the sabbath res. So he had as good leave
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: as guns and bits of indoor work alone while she stayed.
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: He colored up at the news and cast his eyes
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: over his hands and clothes. The train, oil and gunpowder
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: were shoved out of sight. In a minute. I saw
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: he meant to give her his company, and I guessed
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: by his way he wanted to be presentable, so laughing
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: as I durst not laugh when the master is by,
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: I offered to help him if he would, and joked
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: at his confusion. He grew sullen and began to swear. Now,
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: Missus Dean, Zillah went on, seeing me not pleased by
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: her manner. You happen think you're young lady, too fine
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: for mister Hareton, and happen you're right, But I own
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: I should love well to bring her pride a peg lower.
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: And what will all her learning and her daintiness do
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: for her? Now she's as poor as you or I poorer.
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: I'll be bound. You're saving, and I'm doing my little
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: All that road Hairtun allowed Zillah to give him her aid,
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: and she flattered him into a good so when Catherine
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: came half forgetting her former insults, he tried to make
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: himself agreeable. By the housekeeper's account, Missus walked in, she said,
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: as chill as an icicle and as high as a princess.
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: I got up and offered her my seat in the
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: arm chair. No, she turned up her nose at my civility.
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: Earnshaw rose too, and bid her come to the settle
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: and sit close by the fire. He was sure she
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: was starved. I've been starved a month and more, she answered,
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: resting on the word, as scornful as she could. And
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: she got a chair for herself and placed it at
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: a distance from both of us, having sat till she
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: was warm. She began to look round and discovered a
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: number of books on the dresser. She was instantly upon
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: her feet, again, stretching to reach them, but they were
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: too high up. Her cousin, after watching her endeavors, awhile
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: at last summoned courage to help her. She held her
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: frock and he filled it with the first that came
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: to hand. That was a great advance for the lad.
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: She didn't thank him. Still, he felt gratified that she
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: had accepted his assistance, and ventured to stand behind as
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: she examined them, and even to stoop and point out
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: what struck his fancy in certain old pictures which they contained.
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: Nor was he daunted by the saucy style in which
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: she jerked the page from his finger. He contented himself
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: with going a bit farther back and looking at her
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: instead of the book she continued reading, or seeking for
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: something to read. His attention became, by degrees quite centered
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: in the study of her, thick silky curls her face.
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: He couldn't see, and she couldn't see him, and perhaps
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: not quite awake to what he did, but attracted like
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: a child to a candle. At last, he proceeded from
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: staring to touching. He put out his hand and stroked
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: one curl as gently as if it were a bird.
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: He might have stuck a knife into her neck. She
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: started round in such a taking get away this moment.
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: How dare you touch me? Why are you stopping there?
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: She cried in a tone of disgust. I can't endure you.
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: I'll go upstairs again if you come near me. Mister
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: Hareton recoiled, looking as foolish as he could do. He
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: sat down in the settle, very quiet, and she continued
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: turning over her volumes another half hour. Finally, Earnshaw crossed
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: over and whispered to me, will you ask her to
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: read to us? Zillah, I'm stalled of doing no, and
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: I do like I could like to hear her. Doun
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: not say I wanted it, but ask of your soul.
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: Mister hair Ton wishes you would read to us, ma'am,
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: I said immediately, he'd take it very kind, He'd be
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: much obliged. She frowned, and looking up, answered, mister hair Ton,
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: and the whole set of you will be good enough
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: to understand that I reject any pretense at kindness you
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: have the hypocrisy to offer. I despise you and will
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: have nothing to say to any of you when and
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: I would have given my life for one kind word,
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: even to see one of your faces. You all kept off,
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: but I won't complain to you. I'm driven down here
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: by the cold, not either to amuse you or enjoy
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: your society. What could I hat done? Began Earnshaw. How
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: was I to blame? Oh you are an exception, answered
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: missus Heathcliff. I never missed such a concern as you,
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: But I offered more than once, and asked, he said,
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: kindling up at her pertness, I asked, mister Heathcliffe to
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: let me wake, for you be silent. I'll go out
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: of doors or anywhere, rather than have your disagreeable voice
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: in my ear, said my lady. Hare Toun muttered she
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: might go to hell for him, and, unslinging his gun,
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: restrained himself from his Sunday occupations no longer. He talked
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: now freely enough, and she presently saw fit to retreat
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: to her solitude. But the frost had set in, and
• 44:59
  Speaker 1: in spite of her she was forced to condescend to
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: our company more and more. However, I took care. There
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: should be no further scorning at my good nature ever
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: since I've been as stiff as herself. And she has
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: no lover or like her among us, and she does
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: not deserve one. For let them say the least word
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: to her, and she'll curl back without respect of any one.
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: She'll snap at the master himself and as good as
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: dares him to thrash her. And the more hurt she gets,
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: the more venomous she grows. At first, on hearing this
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: account from Zillah, I determined to leave my situation, take
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: a cottage, and get Catherine to come and live with me.
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: But mister Heathcliff would as soon permit that as he
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: would set up her ton in an independent house. And
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: I can see no remedy at present unless she could
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: marry again, and that scheme it does not come within
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: my province to arrange. Astis gastrous gastus gasterus gasterisk. Thus
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: ended Missus Deane's story. Notwithstanding the doctor's prophecy, I am
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: rapidly recovering strength, and though it be only the second
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: week in January, I proposed getting out on horseback in
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: a day or two and riding over to Wuthering Heights
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: to inform my landlord that I shall spend the next
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: six months in London, and if he likes, he may
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: look out for another tenant to take the place. After October,
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: I would not pass another winter here for much Chapter
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: thirty one. Yesterday was bright, calm and frosty. I went
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: to the heights as I proposed. My housekeeper entreated me
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: to bear a little note from her to her young lady,
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: and I did not refuse, for the worthy woman was
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: not conscious of anything odd in her request. The front
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: door stood open, but the jealous gate was fastened, as
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: at my last visit. I knocked and invoked Earnshaw from
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: among the garden beds. He unchained it, and I entered.
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: The fellow is as handsome a rustic as need be seen.
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: I took particular notice of him this time, but then
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: he does his best, apparently to make the least of
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: his advantages. I asked if mister Heathcliff were at home.
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: He answered no, but he would be in at dinner time.
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: It was eleven o'clock, and I announced my intention of
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: going in and waiting for him, at which he immediately
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: flung down his tools and accompanied me in the office
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: of watchdog, not as a substitute for the host. We
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: entered together. Catherine was there, making herself useful in preparing
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: some vegetables for the approaching meal. She looked more sulky
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: and less spirited than when I had seen her first.
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: She hardly raised her eyes to notice me, and continued
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: her employment with the same disregard to common forms of
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: politeness as before, never returning my bow in good morning.
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: By the slightest acknowledgment, she does not seem so amiable,
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: I thought, as Missus Deane would persuade me to believe
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: she's a beauty, It is true, but not an angel.
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: Bernshaw surlily bid her remove her things to the kitchen.
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: Remove them yourself, she said, pushing them from her as
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: soon as she had done, and retiring to a stool
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: by the window, where she began to carve figures of
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: birds and beasts out of the turnip pairings in her lap.
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: I approached her, pretending to desire a view of the garden,
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: and as I fancied, adroitly dropped Missus Deane's note on
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: to her knee, unnoticed by hair Ton, but she asked aloud,
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: what is that and chucked it off. A letter from
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: your old acquaintance, the housekeeper at the grange, I answered,
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: annoyed at her exposing my kind deed, and fearful lest
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: it should be imagined a missive of my own. She
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: would gladly have gathered it up at this information, but
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: hair Ton beat her. He seized and put it in
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: his waistcoat, saying, mister Heathcliff should look at it first.
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: Thereat Catherine silently turned her face from us, and very
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: stealthily drew out her pocket handkerchief and applied it to
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: her eyes, and her cousin, after struggling awhile to keep
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: down his softer feelings, pulled out the letter and flung
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: it on the floor beside her, as ungraciously as he could.
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: Catherine caught and perused it eagerly. Then she put a
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: few questions to me concerning the inmates, rational and irrational,
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: of her former home, and gazing towards the hills, murmured
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: in soliloquy, I should like to be writing many down there.
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: I should like to be climbing up there. Oh I'm tired.
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: I'm stalled, hair Ton, and she lent her pretty head
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: back against the sill with half a yawn and half
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: a sigh, and lapsed into an aspect of abstracted sadness,
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: neither caring nor knowing whether we remarked her. Missus Heathcliffe,
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: I said, after sitting some time, mute. You are not
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: aware that I am an acquaintance of yours, so intimate
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: that I think it's strange you won't come and speak
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: to me. My housekeeper never wearies of talking about and
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: praising you, and she'll be greatly disappointed if I return
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: with no news of or from you, except that you
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: received her letter and said nothing. She appeared to wonder
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: at this speech, and asked, does Ellen like you? Yes,
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: very well, I replied, hesitatingly. You must tell her. She
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: continued that I would answer her letter. But I have
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: no materials for writing, not even a book from which
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: I might tear a leaf. No books, I exclaimed, How
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: do you contrive to live here without them? If I
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: may take the liberty to inquire. Though provided with a
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: large library, I am frequently very dull at the grange.
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: Take my books away, and I should be desperate. I
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: was always reading when I had them, said Catherine. And
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: mister Heathcliff never reads, so he took it into his
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: head to destroy my books. I have not had a
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: glimpse of one for weeks. Only once I searched through
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: Joseph's store of theology, to his great irritation, And once
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: hair Ton, I came upon a secret stock in your room,
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: some Latin and Greek, and some tales in poetry, all
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: old friends. I brought the last here, and you gathered
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: them as a magpie gathers silver spoons, for the mere
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: love of stealing. They are of no use to you, You
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: or else you concealed them in the bad spirit that
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: as you cannot enjoy them, nobody else shall. Perhaps your
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: envy counseled mister Heathcliffe to rob me of my treasures.
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: But I've most of them written on my brain and
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: printed in my heart, and you cannot deprive me of those.
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: Barnshaw blushed Crimson when his cousin made this revelation of
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: his private literary accumulations, and stammered an indignant denial of
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: her accusations. Mister Hareton is desirous of increasing his amount
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: of knowledge, I said, coming to his rescue. He is
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: not envious, but emulous of your attainments. He'll be a
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: clever scholar in a few years, and he wants me
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: to sink into a dunce meantime, answered Catherine, Yes, I
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: hear him trying to spell and read to himself, and
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: pretty blunders he makes. I wish you would repeat Chevy
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: Chase as you did yesterday. It was extremely funny. I
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: heard you, and I heard you turning over the dictionary
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: to seek out the hard words, and then cursing because
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: you couldn't read their explanations. The young man evidently thought
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: it too bad that he should be laughed at for
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: his ignorance, and then laughed at for trying to remove it.
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: I had a similar notion, and remembering Missus Dean's anecdote
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: of his first attempt at enlightening the darkness in which
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: he had been reared, I observed, But Missus Heathcliff, we
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: have each had a commencement and each stumbled and tottered
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: on the threshold. Had our teachers scorned instead of aiding us,
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: we should stumble and totter. Yet, oh, she replied, I
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: don't wish to limit his acquirements. Still, he has no
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: right to appropriate what is mine and make it ridiculous
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: to me with his vile mistakes and mispronunciations. Those books,
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: both prose and verse, are consecrated to me by other associations,
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: and I hate to have them debased and profaned in
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: his mouth. Besides, of all, he has selected my favorite
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: pieces that I love the most to repeat, as if
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: out of deliberate malice, Hareton's chest heaved in sight silence.
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: A minute. He labored under a severe sense of mortification
• 53:03
  Speaker 1: and wrath, which it was no easy task to suppress.
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: I rose, and, from a gentlemanly idea of relieving his embarrassment,
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: took up my station in the doorway, surveying the external
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: prospect as I stood. He followed my example and left
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: the room, but presently reappeared bearing half a dozen volumes
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: in his hands, which he threw into Catherine's lap, exclaiming,
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: take them. I never want to hear, or read or
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: think of them again. I won't have them now, she answered,
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: I shall connect them with you and hate them. She
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: opened one that had obviously been often turned over and
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: read a portion in the drawing tone of a beginner,
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: then laughed and threw it from her and listen. She continued, provokingly,
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: commencing a verse of an old ballad in the same fashion,
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: but his self love would endure no further torment. I heard,
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: and not altogether disapprovingly, a manual check given to her
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: saucy tongue. The little wretch had done her utmost to
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: hurt her cousin's sensitive, though uncultivated feelings, and a physical
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: argument was the only mode he had of balancing the
• 54:10
  Speaker 1: account and repaying its effects on the inflictor. He afterwards
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: gathered the books and hurled them on the fire. I
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: read in his countenance what anguish it was to offer
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: that sacrifice to spleen. I fancied that as they consumed,
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: he recalled the pleasure they had already imparted, and the
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: triumph and ever increasing pleasure he had anticipated from them.
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: And I fancied I guessed the incitement to his secret studies. Also,
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: he had been content with daily labor and rough animal
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: enjoyments till Catherine crossed his path. Shame at her scorn
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: and hope of her approval were his first prompters to
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: hire pursuits, And instead of guarding him from one and
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: winning him to the other, his endeavors to raise himself
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: had produced just the contrary result. Yes, that's all the
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: good that such a brute as you can get from them,
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: cried Catherine, sucking her damaged lip and watching the conflagration
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: with indignant eyes. You'd better hold your tongue now, he
• 55:04
  Speaker 1: answered fiercely, and his agitation precluded further speech. He advanced
• 55:10
  Speaker 1: hastily to the entrance, where I made way for him
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: to pass. But ere he had crossed the door stones.
• 55:16
  Speaker 1: Mister Heathcliff, coming up the causeway, encountered him, and, laying
• 55:20
  Speaker 1: hold of his shoulder, asked, what's to do now? My
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: lad Not not, he said, and broke away to enjoy
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: his grief and anger in solitude. Heathcliff gazed after him
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: and sighed, it will be odd if I thwart myself.
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: He muttered, unconscious that I was behind him. But when
• 55:39
  Speaker 1: I look for his father in his face, I find
• 55:42
  Speaker 1: her every day more. How the devil is he so like?
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: I can hardly bear to see him. He bent his
• 55:49
  Speaker 1: eyes to the ground and walked moodily in. There was
• 55:53
  Speaker 1: a restless, anxious expression in his countenance. I had never
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: remarked there before, and he looked sparer in person. His
• 56:01
  Speaker 1: daughter in law, on perceiving him through the window. Immediately
• 56:04
  Speaker 1: escaped to the kitchen so that I remained alone. I'm
• 56:08
  Speaker 1: glad to see you out of doors again, mister Lockwood,
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: he said, in reply to my greeting from selfish motives. Partly,
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: I don't think I could readily supply your loss in
• 56:17
  Speaker 1: this desolation. I've wondered more than once what brought you here?
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: An idle whim, I fear, sir, was my answer, Or
• 56:26
  Speaker 1: else an idle whim is going to spirit me away.
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: I shall set out for London next week, and I
• 56:31
  Speaker 1: must give you warning that I feel no disposition to
• 56:34
  Speaker 1: retain Thrushcross Grange beyond the twelve months I agreed to
• 56:37
  Speaker 1: rent it. I believe I shall not live there any more. Oh, indeed,
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: you're tired of being banished from the world, are you?
• 56:45
  Speaker 1: He said? But if you be coming to plead off
• 56:48
  Speaker 1: paying for a place you won't occupy, your journey is useless.
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: I never relent in exacting my do from any one.
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: I'm coming to plead off. Nothing about it, I exclaimed,
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: considerably irritated. Should you wish it, I'll settle with you now,
• 57:03
  Speaker 1: And I drew my note book from my pocket. No, no,
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: he replied, coolly. You'll leave sufficient behind to cover your
• 57:10
  Speaker 1: debts if you fail to return. I'm not in such
• 57:13
  Speaker 1: a hurry. Sit down and take your dinner with us.
• 57:17
  Speaker 1: A guest that is safe from repeating his visit can
• 57:19
  Speaker 1: generally be made welcome, Catherine, bring the things in. Where
• 57:24
  Speaker 1: are you? Catherine reappeared bearing a tray of knives and forks.
• 57:30
  Speaker 1: You may get your dinner with Joseph, muttered Heathcliff aside,
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: and remain in the kitchen till he is gone. She
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: obeyed his directions very punctually. Perhaps she had no temptation
• 57:41
  Speaker 1: to transgress. Living among clowns and misanthropists. She probably cannot
• 57:46
  Speaker 1: appreciate a better class of people when she meets them,
• 57:49
  Speaker 1: with mister Heathcliff, Grim and Saturnine on the one hand,
• 57:53
  Speaker 1: and hair Ton absolutely dumb on the other. I made
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: a somewhat cheerless meal and bade a do early. I
• 58:00
  Speaker 1: would have departed by the back way to get a
• 58:02
  Speaker 1: last glimpse of Catherine and annoy old Joseph, but Hareton
• 58:06
  Speaker 1: received orders to lead up my horse, and my host
• 58:08
  Speaker 1: himself escorted me to the door, so I could not
• 58:11
  Speaker 1: fulfill my wish. How dreary life gets over in that house,
• 58:16
  Speaker 1: I reflected, while riding down the road, What a realization
• 58:20
  Speaker 1: of something more romantic than a fairy tale it would
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: have been for missus Linton Heathcliff, had she and I
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: struck up an attachment as her good nurse desired, and
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: migrated together into the stirring atmosphere of the town Chapter
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: thirty two, eighteen o two dot. This September I was
• 58:37
  Speaker 1: invited to devastate the moors of a friend in the north,
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: and on my journey to his abode, I unexpectedly came
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: within fifteen miles of Gimmerton. The ostler at a roadside
• 58:47
  Speaker 1: public house was holding a pail of water to refresh
• 58:50
  Speaker 1: my horses when a cart of very green oats newly
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: reaped passed by, and he remarked, Yonce Froe, Gimmerton, na
• 58:58
  Speaker 1: their alice three wick after other folk, why the harvest Gimmerton,
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: I repeated, My residence in that locality had already grown
• 59:08
  Speaker 1: dim and dreamy Ah, I know how far is it
• 59:13
  Speaker 1: from this? Happened fourteen mile o'er th h hills and
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: a rough road, he answered. A sudden impulse seized me
• 59:21
  Speaker 1: to visit Thrushcross Grange. It was scarcely noon, and I
• 59:25
  Speaker 1: conceived that I might as well pass the night under
• 59:28
  Speaker 1: my own roof as in an inn. Besides, I could
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: spare a day easily to arrange matters with my landlord,
• 59:34
  Speaker 1: and thus save myself the trouble of invading the neighborhood again.
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: Having rested awhile, I directed my servant to inquire the
• 59:42
  Speaker 1: way to the village, and with great fatigue to our beasts,
• 59:45
  Speaker 1: we managed the distance in some three hours. I left
• 59:49
  Speaker 1: him there and proceeded down the valley alone. The gray
• 59:53
  Speaker 1: church looked grayer, and the lonely churchyard Lonelier. I distinguished
• 59:58
  Speaker 1: a more sheep cropping the short turf on the graves.
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 1: It was sweet, warm weather, too warm for traveling, but
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 1: the heat did not hinder me from enjoying the delightful
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 1: scenery above and below. Had I seen it nearer August,
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 1: I'm sure it would have tempted me to waste a
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 1: month among its solitudes in winter. Nothing more dreary in summer,
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 1: nothing more divine than those glens shut in by hills
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 1: and those bluff bold swells of heath. I reached the
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 1: grange before sunset and knocked for admittance, But the family
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 1: had retreated into the back premises, I judged by one
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 1: thin blue wreath curling from the kitchen chimney, and they
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 1: did not hear. I rode into the court. Under the porch,
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 1: a girl of nine or ten sat knitting, and an
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 1: old woman reclined on the house steps smoking a meditative pipe.
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 1: Is missus dean within? I demanded of the dame mistress
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 1: dean Nay, she answered, she doesn't bite here shoes up
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 1: at th h heights. Are you the house? Then, I continued,
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 1: e e a, I'll keep t h hausa. She replied, well,
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 1: I'm mister Lockwood, the master. Are there any rooms to
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 1: lodge me in? I wonder? I wished to stay all night?
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 1: Tea measter, she cried in astonishment. Wet hoyver niuyah were
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 1: coming ya sud hak send word? They snout, norther dry
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 1: nor men's full about tea place? Nowt there isn't. She
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 1: threw down her pipe and bustled in. The girl followed,
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 1: and I entered too soon, perceiving that her report was true,
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 1: and moreover that I had almost upset her wits by
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 1: my unwelcome apparition, I bade her be composed. I would
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 1: go out for a walk, and meantime she must try
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 1: to prepare a corner of a sitting room for me
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 1: to sup in and a bedroom to sleep in. No
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 1: sweeping and dusting, only good fire and dry sheets were necessary.
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 1: She seemed willing to do her best, though she thrust
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 1: the hearth brush into the grates, a mistake for the poker,
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 1: and malappropriated several other articles of her craft. But I retired,
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 1: confiding in her energy for a resting place. Against my return.
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 1: Wuthering Heights was the goal of my proposed excursion. An
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 1: afterthought brought me back. When I had quitted the court
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 1: all well at the heights, I inquired of the woman
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 1: e e a f r out e e gnaw, she answered,
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 1: scurrying away with a pan of hot cinders. I would
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 1: have asked why missus Dean had deserted the grange, but
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 1: it was impossible to delay her at such a crisis,
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 1: so I turned away and made my exit, rambling leisurely
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 1: along with the glow of a sinking sun behind and
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 1: the mild glory of a rising moon in front, one
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 1: fading and the other brightening as I quitted the park
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 1: and climbed the stony by road branching off to mister
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 1: Heathcliff's dwelling. Before I arrived in sight of it, all
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 1: that remained of day was a beamless amber light along
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 1: the west. But I could see every pebble on the
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 1: path and every blade of grass by that splendid moon.
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 1: I had neither to climb the gate, nor to knock
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 1: it yielded to my hand. That is an improvement, I thought,
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 1: And I noticed another by the aid of my nostrils.
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 1: A fragrance of stalks and wallflowers wafted on the air
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 1: from amongst the homely fruit trees. Both doors and lattices
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 1: were open, and yet, as is usually the case in
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 1: a coal district, a fine red fire illumined the chimney.
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 1: The comfort which the eye derives from it renders the
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 1: extra heat endurable. But the house of Wuthering Heights is
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 1: so large that the inmates have plenty of space for
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 1: withdrawing out of its influence. And accordingly what inmates there
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 1: were had stationed themselves not far from one of the windows.
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 1: I could both see them and hear them talk. Before
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 1: I entered, and looked and listened in consequence, being moved
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 1: there too by a mingled sense of curiosity and envy
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 1: that grew as I lingered. Contrary, said a voice as
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 1: sweet as a silver bell, that for the third time
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 1: you dunce, I'm not going to tell you again, recollect or,
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 1: I'll pull your hair. Contrary then answered another, in deep
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 1: but softened tones, and now kiss me for minding so well. No,
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 1: read it over first, correctly, without a single mistake. The
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 1: male speaker began to read. He was a young man,
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 1: respectably dressed, and seated at a table, having a book
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 1: before him. His handsome features glowed with pleasure, and his
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 1: eyes kept impatiently wandering from the page to a small
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 1: white hand over his shoulder, which recalled him by a
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 1: smart slap on the cheek whenever its owner detected such
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 1: signs of an attention. Its owner stood behind her light
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 1: shining ringlets blending at intervals with his brown locks, as
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 1: she bent to superintend his studies and her face. It
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 1: was lucky he could not see her face, or he
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 1: would never have been so steady I could, and I
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 1: bit my lip in spite at having thrown away the
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 1: chance I might have had of doing something beside staring
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 1: at its smiting beauty. The task was done, not free
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 1: from further blunders, but the pupil claimed a reward and
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 1: received at least five kisses, which however, he generously returned.
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 1: Then they came to the door, and from their conversation
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 1: I judged they were about to issue out and have
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 1: a walk on the moors. I supposed I should be
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 1: condemned in harton Ernshaw's heart, if not by his mouth,
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 1: to the lowest pit in the infernal regions, if I
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 1: showed my unfortunate person in his neighborhood. Then, and feeling
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 1: very mean and malignant, I skulped round to seek refuge
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 1: in the kitchen. There was unobstructed admittance on that side also,
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 1: and at the door sat my old friend Nellie Dean,
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 1: sewing and singing a song which was often interrupted from
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 1: within by harsh words of scorn and intolerance, uttered and
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 1: far from musical accents. I'd rayther by t h hoff
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 1: h e v m, swearing I my lug's froage morn
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 1: to neat nor hearken ye Hosiver, said the tenant of
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 1: the kitchen, in answer to an unheard speech of Nelly's
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 1: It's a blazing shame that I cannot up and tea
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 1: blessed book. But ya set up them glories to sattan
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 1: and all tea flay some wickednesses that eve air were
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 1: born into t h world. Oh yeerie a rate no
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 1: out and choose another, and that poor lad ll be
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 1: lost between ye poor lad, he added with a groan,
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 1: He's witched. I'm sorry not, oh Lord judge m for
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 1: there's norther law nor justice among w r rullers. No,
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 1: or we should be sitting in flaming faggots, I suppose,
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 1: retorted the singer. But wished, old man, and read your
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 1: bible like a Christian, and never mind me. This is
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 1: fairy Annie's wedding a Bonnie tune. It goes to a dance.
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 1: Missus Dean was about to recommence when I advanced, and,
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 1: recognizing me to directly, she jumped to her feet, crying,
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 1: why bless you, mister Lockwood, how could you think of
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 1: returning in this way? All shut up at Thrushcross Grange.
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 1: You should have given us notice. I've arranged to be
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 1: accommodated there for as long as I shall stay, I answered,
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 1: I depart again tomorrow. And how are you transplanted here?
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 1: Missus Dean tell me that Zillah left and mister Heathcliffe
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 1: wished me to come soon after you went to London
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 1: and stay till you returned. But step in pray. Have
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 1: you walked from Gimmerton this evening? From the grange? I replied,
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 1: And while they make me lodging room there, I want
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 1: to finish my business with your master, because I don't
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 1: think of having another opportunity in a hurry. What business, sir,
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 1: said Nellie, conducting me into the house. He's gone out
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 1: at present and won't return soon. About the rent, I answered, Oh,
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 1: then it is with missus Heathcliffe you must settle, she observed,
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 1: or rather with me. She has not learned to manage
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 1: her affairs yet, and I act for her. There's nobody else.
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 1: I looked, surprised, Ah, you have not heard of Heathcliffe's death.
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 1: I see, she continued. Heathcliff dead, I exclaimed, astonished, How
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 1: long ago? Three months since? But sit down and let
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 1: me take your hat and I'll tell you all about it. Stop.
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 1: You have had nothing to eat? Have you? I want nothing?
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 1: I have ordered supper at home. You sit down too.
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 1: I never dreamt of his dying. Let me hear how
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 1: it came to pass. You say you don't expect them
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 1: back for some time. The young people, no, I have
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 1: to scold them every evening for their late rambles, but
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 1: they don't care for me. At least have a drink
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 1: of our old ale. It will do you good. You
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 1: seem weary. She hastened to fetch it before I could refuse,
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 1: and I heard Joseph asking whether it warned a crying
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 1: scandal that she should have followers at her time of life.
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 1: And then to get them jocks out, Oh t measter cellar.
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 1: He fareed Sham to bide still and see it. She
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 1: did not stay to retaliate, but re entered in a
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 1: minute bearing a reaming silver pint, whose contents I lauded
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 1: with becoming earnestness. And afterwards she furnished me with the
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 1: sequel of Heathcliffe's history. He had a queer end, as
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 1: she expressed it, astisk gastrous gastus gastrous gasterisk. I was
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 1: summoned to Wuthering Heights within a fortnight of your leaving us,
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 1: she said, and I obeyed joyfully for Catherine's sake. My
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 1: first interview with her grieved and shocked me. She had
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 1: altered so much since our separation. Mister Heathcliff did not
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 1: explain his reasons for taking a new mind about my
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 1: coming here. He only told me he wanted me, and
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 1: he was tired of seeing Katherine. I must make the
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 1: little parlor my sitting room and keep her with me.
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 1: It was enough if he were obliged to see her
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 1: once or twice a day. She seemed pleased at this arrangement,
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 1: and by degrees I smuggled over a great number of
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 1: books and other articles that had formed her amusement at
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 1: the grange, and flattered myself. We should get on in
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 1: tolerable comfort. The delusion did not last long. Catherine contented
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 1: at first in a brief space, grew irritable and restless.
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 1: For one thing, she was forbidden to move out of
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 1: the garden, and it fretted her sadly to be confined
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 1: to its narrow bounds as spring drew on. For another,
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 1: in following the house, I was forced to quit her frequently,
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 1: and she complained of loneliness. She preferred quarreling with Joseph
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 1: in the kitchen to sitting at peace in her solitude.
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 1: I did not mind their skirmishes. But Haretn was often
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 1: obliged to seek the kitchen also when the master wanted
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 1: to have the house to himself. And though in the
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 1: beginning she either left it at his approach or quietly
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 1: joined in my occupations and shunned remarking or addressing him,
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 1: and though he was always as sullen and silent as possible,
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 1: after a while she changed her behavior and became incapable
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 1: of letting him alone, talking at him, commenting on his
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 1: stupidity and idleness, expressing her wonder how he could endure
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 1: the life he lived, how he could sit a whole
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 1: evening staring into the fire and dozing. He's just like
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 1: a dog, is he not, Ellen, she once observed, or
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 1: a cart horse. He does his work, eats his food,
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 1: and sleeps eternally. What a blank, dreary mind he must have.
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 1: Do you ever dream, hair Ton? And if you do,
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 1: what is it about? But you can't speak to me?
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 1: Then she looked at him, but he would neither open
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 1: his mouth nor look again. He's perhaps dreaming now, she continued.
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 1: He twitched his shoulder as Juno twitches. Hers ask him, Ellen,
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 1: mister Hareton will ask the master to send you upstairs
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 1: if you don't behave, I said. He had not only
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 1: twitched his shoulder, but clenched his fist as if tempted
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 1: to use it. I know why Haretn never speaks when
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 1: I am in the kitchen, she exclaimed. On another occasion,
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 1: he is afraid I shall laugh at him. Ellen, what
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 1: do you think He began to teach himself to read once,
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 1: and because I laughed, he burned his books and dropped it.
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 1: Was he not a fool? Were not you naughty? I said?
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 1: Answer me that perhaps I was, She went on, But
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 1: I did not expect him to be so silly. Hair Ton,
• 1:12:43
  Speaker 1: If I gave you a book, would you take it? Now?
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 1: I'll try. She placed one she had been perusing on
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 1: his hand. He flung it off and muttered if she
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 1: did not give over, he would break her neck. Well,
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 1: I shall put it here, she said, in the table drawer,
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 1: and I am going to bed. Then she whispered me
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 1: to watch whether he touched it and departed. But he
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 1: would not come near it, and so I informed her
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 1: in the morning, to her great disappointment. I saw she
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 1: was sorry for his persevering sulkiness and indolence. Her conscience
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 1: reproved her for frightening him off, and proving himself she
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 1: had done it effectually. But her ingenuity was at work
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 1: to remedy the injury. While I ironed or pursued other
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 1: such stationary employments as I could not well do. In
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 1: the parlor, she would bring some pleasant volume and read
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 1: it aloud to me. When Hareton was there, she generally
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 1: paused in an interesting part and left the book lying
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 1: about that she did repeatedly. But he was as obstinate
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 1: as a mule, and instead of snatching at her bait
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 1: in wet weather, he took to smoking with Joseph, and
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 1: they sat like automatons, one on each side of the fire,
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 1: the elder happily too deaf to understand her wicked nonsense,
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 1: as he would have called it, the younger doing his
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 1: best to seem to disregard it. On fine evenings, the
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 1: latter followed his shooting expeditions, and Catherine yawned insighe and
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 1: teased me to talk to her, and ran off into
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 1: the court or garden the moment I began, and as
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 1: a last resource, cried and said she was tired of living.
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 1: Her life was useless, mister Heathcliff, who grew more and
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 1: more disinclined to society, had almost banished Earnshaw from his apartment.
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 1: Owing to an accident at the commencement of March, he
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 1: became for some days of fixture in the kitchen. His
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 1: gun burst while out on the hills by himself. A
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 1: splinter cut his arm, and he lost a good deal
• 1:14:34
  Speaker 1: of blood before he could reach home. The consequence was
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 1: that perforce he was condemned to the fireside and tranquility
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 1: till he made it up again. It suited Catherine to
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 1: have him there at any rate. It made her hate
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 1: her room upstairs more than ever, and she would compel
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 1: me to find out business below that she might accompany me.
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 1: On Easter Monday, Joseph went to Gimmerton Fair with some cattle,
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 1: and in the AffA afternoon I was busy getting up
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 1: linen in the kitchen. Earnshaw sat morose as usual at
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 1: the chimney corner, and my little mistress was beguiling an
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 1: idle hour with drawing pictures on the window panes, varying
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 1: her amusement by smothered bursts of songs and whispered ejaculations
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 1: and quick glances of annoyance and impatience in the direction
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 1: of her cousin, who steadfastly smoked and looked into the grate.
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 1: At a notice that I could do with her. No
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 1: longer intercepting my light, she removed to the hearthstone. I
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 1: bestowed little attention on her proceedings, but presently I heard
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 1: her begin, I've found out, hair Ton, that I want that.
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 1: I'm glad that I should like you to be my
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 1: cousin now if you had not grown so cross to
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 1: me and so rough. Hair Ton returned no answer. Hair Ton,
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 1: hair Ton, hair Ton, do you hear, she continued, Get off?
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 1: Why ye? He growled with uncompromising gruffness. Let me take
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 1: that pipe, she said, cautiously, advancing her hand and abstracting
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 1: it from his mouth before he could attempt to recover it.
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 1: It was broken and behind the fire. He swore at
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 1: her and seized another stop. She cried, you must listen
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 1: to me first, and I can't speak while those clouds
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 1: are floating in my face. Will you go to the devil,
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 1: he exclaimed ferociously, and let me be No, she persisted,
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 1: I won't. I can't tell what to do to make
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 1: you talk to me, and you are determined not to
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 1: understand when I call you stupid, I don't mean anything.
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 1: I don't mean that I despise you. Come. You shall
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 1: take notice of me, hair Ton. You are my cousin,
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 1: and you shall own me. I shall have naught to do.
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 1: Why you and your mucky pride and your damned mocking tricks,
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 1: he answered, I'll go to hell, body and soul before
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 1: I look sideways after you again? Side out O t
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 1: G now this minute. Catherine frowned and retreated to the
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 1: window seat, chewing her lip and endeavoring by humming an
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 1: eccentric tune to conceal a growing tendency to sob. You
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 1: should be friends with your cousin, mister Hareton, I interrupted,
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 1: Since she repents of her sauciness. It would do you
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 1: a great deal of good. It would make you another
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 1: man to have her for a companion. A companion, he cried,
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 1: when she hates me and does not think me fit
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 1: to wipe her shoon. Nay, if it made me a king,
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 1: I'd not be scorned for seeking her goodwill any more.
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 1: It is not I who hate you, it is you
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 1: who hate me. Wept. Cathy no longer disguising her trouble.
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 1: You hate me as much as mister Heathcliff does and more.
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 1: You're a damned liar, began Earnshaw. Why have I made
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 1: him angry by taking your part than a hundred times?
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 1: And that when you sneered at and despised me and
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 1: go on plaguing me, And and I'll step in yonder
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 1: and say you worried me out of the kitchen. I
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 1: didn't know you took my part, she answered, drying her eyes.
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 1: And I was miserable and bitter at everybody. But now
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 1: I thank you and beg you to forgive me. What
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 1: can I do besides? She returned to the hearth and
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 1: frankly extended her hand. He blackened and scowled like a thundercloud,
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 1: and kept his fists resolutely clenched and his gaze fixed
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 1: on the ground. Catherine, by instinct, must have divined it
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 1: was obdurate perversity and not dislike that prompted this dogged conduct,
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 1: for after remaining an instant undecided, she stooped and impressed
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 1: on his cheek a gentle kiss. The little rogue thought
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 1: I had not seen her, and drawing back, she took
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 1: her former station by the window, quite demurely. I shook
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 1: my head reprovingly, and then she blushed and whispered, well,
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 1: what should I have done? Ellen? He wouldn't shake hands,
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 1: and he wouldn't look. I must show him some way
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 1: that I like him, that I want to be friends.
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 1: Whether the kiss convinced har Ton, I cannot tell. He
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 1: was very careful for some minutes that his face should
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 1: not be seen, and when he did raise it, he
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 1: was sadly puzzled where to turn his eyes. Catherine employed
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 1: herself in wrapping a handsome book neatly in white paper,
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 1: and having tied it with a bit of ribbon, and
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 1: addressed it to mister Hareton Earnshaw. She desired me to
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 1: be her ambassadors and convey the present to its destined recipient,
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 1: and tell him if he'll take it, I'll come and
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 1: teach him to read it right, she said, And if
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 1: he refuse it, I'll go upstairs and never tease him again.
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 1: I carried it and repeated the message anxiously watched by
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 1: my employer. Haretun would not open his fingers, so I
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 1: laid it on his knee. He did not strike it
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 1: off either. I returned to my work. Catherine leaned her
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 1: head and arms on the table till she heard the
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 1: slight rustle of the covering being removed. Then she stole
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 1: away and quietly seated herself beside her cousin. He trembled
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 1: and his face glowed. All his rudeness and all his
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 1: surly harshness had deserted him. He could not summon courage
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 1: at first to utter a syllable in reply to her
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 1: questioning look and her murmured petition. Say you forgive me
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 1: hair ton. Do you can make me so happy by
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 1: speaking that little word? He muttered something inaudible, And you'll
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 1: be my friend, added Catherine interrogatively. Nay, you'll be ashamed
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 1: of me every day of your life, he answered. And
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 1: the more ashamed, the more you know me, And I
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 1: cannot bite it, so you won't be my friend, she said,
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 1: smiling as sweet as honey and creeping close up. I
• 1:20:45
  Speaker 1: overheard no further distinguishable talk, but on looking round again
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 1: I perceived two such radiant countenances bent over the page
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 1: of the accepted book that I did not doubt. The
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 1: treaty had been ratified on both sides, and the enemies
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 1: were thenceforth sworn allah. The work they studied was full
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 1: of costly pictures, and those in their position had charm
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 1: enough to keep them unmoved till Joseph came home. He
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 1: poor man, was perfectly aghast at the spectacle of Catherine
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 1: seated on the same bench with Hareton Earnshaw, leaning her
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 1: hand on his shoulder, and confounded at his favorites endurance
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 1: of her proximity. It affected him too deeply to allow
• 1:21:22
  Speaker 1: an observation on the subject. That night. His emotion was
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 1: only revealed by the immense size he drew as he
• 1:21:29
  Speaker 1: solemnly spread his large bible on the table and overlaid
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 1: it with dirty bank notes from his pocket book, the
• 1:21:35
  Speaker 1: produce of the day's transactions. At length, he summoned Hairtn
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 1: from his seat. Tack these into tea. Measter, lad, he said,
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 1: and bide there eyes gang up to my own rom
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 1: This hoils neither men's full nor seemly for us. We
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 1: mun side out and see arch another come, Catherine, I said,
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 1: we must side out too. I've done my ironing. Are
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 1: you ready to go? It is not eight o'clock, she answered,
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 1: rising unwillingly, hair Ton, I'll leave this book upon the
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 1: chimney piece and I'll bring some more to morrow. Only
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 1: books that ye'll leave I shall tack into t h
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 1: has said Joseph. And it'll be Mitch if ye find
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 1: m e jin soa ya may plaise your soul. Cathy
• 1:22:23
  Speaker 1: threatened that his library should pay for hers, and, smiling
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 1: as she passed her ton went singing upstairs. Lighter of heart,
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 1: I venture to say, than ever she had been under
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 1: that roof before, except perhaps during her earliest visits to Linton.
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 1: The intimacy thus commenced grew rapidly, though it encountered temporary interruptions.
• 1:22:44
  Speaker 1: Earnshaw was not to be civilized with a wish, and
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 1: my young lady was no philosopher and no paragon of patience.
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 1: But both their minds tending to the same point, one
• 1:22:53
  Speaker 1: loving and desiring to esteem, and the other loving and
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 1: desiring to be esteemed, they contrived in the end to
• 1:22:59
  Speaker 1: reach it. You see, mister Lockwood, it was easy enough
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 1: to win missus Heathcliff's heart. But now I'm glad you
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 1: did not try. The crown of all my wishes will
• 1:23:10
  Speaker 1: be the union of those two. I shall envy no
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 1: one on their wedding day. There won't be a happier
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 1: woman than myself. In England, chapter thirty three. On the
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 1: morrow of that monday, Bernshaw, being still unable to follow
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 1: his ordinary employments, and therefore remaining about the house, I
• 1:23:27
  Speaker 1: speedily found it would be impracticable to retain my charge
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 1: beside me, as Heretofore, she got downstairs before me and
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 1: out into the garden, where she had seen her cousin
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 1: performing some easy work. And when I went to bid
• 1:23:39
  Speaker 1: them come to breakfast, I saw she had persuaded him
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 1: to clear a large space of ground from currant and
• 1:23:44
  Speaker 1: gooseberry bushes, and they were busy planning together an importation
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 1: of plants from the grange. I was terrified at the
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 1: devastation which had been accomplished in a brief half hour.
• 1:23:54
  Speaker 1: The black currant trees were the apple of Joseph's eye,
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 1: and she had just fixed her choice of a flower
• 1:23:59
  Speaker 1: bed in the midst of them. There that will be
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 1: all shown to the master, I exclaimed, the minute it
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 1: is discovered. And what excuse have you to offer for
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 1: taking such liberties with the garden? We shall have a
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 1: fine explosion on the head of it. See if we don't,
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 1: mister Hareton, I wonder you should have no more with
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 1: than to go and make that mess at her bidding.
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 1: I'd forgotten they were Joseph's, answered Earnshaw, rather puzzled, but
• 1:24:26
  Speaker 1: I'll tell him I did it. We always ate our
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 1: meals with mister Heathcliffe. I held the mistress's post in
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 1: making tea and carving, so I was indispensable at table.
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 1: Catherine usually sat by me, but to day she stole
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 1: nearer to hair Ton, and I presently saw she would
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 1: have no more discretion in her friendship than she had
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 1: in her hostility. Now mind you don't talk with and
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 1: notice your cousin too much. Were my whispered instructions as
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 1: we entered the room. It will certainly annoy mister Heathcliffe,
• 1:24:56
  Speaker 1: and he'll be mad at you both. I'm not going
• 1:24:59
  Speaker 1: to she answered the minute after she had sidled to
• 1:25:03
  Speaker 1: him and was sticking primroses in his plate of porridge.
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 1: He dared not speak to her there, he dared hardly look,
• 1:25:10
  Speaker 1: and yet she went on teasing till he was twice
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 1: on the point of being provoked to laugh. I frowned,
• 1:25:16
  Speaker 1: and then she glanced towards the master, whose mind was
• 1:25:19
  Speaker 1: occupied on other subjects than his company as his countenance evinced,
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 1: and she grew serious for an instant, scrutinizing him with
• 1:25:27
  Speaker 1: deep gravity. Afterwards, she turned and recommenced her nonsense. At
• 1:25:32
  Speaker 1: last Hareton uttered a smothered laugh. Mister Heathcliff started his
• 1:25:37
  Speaker 1: eye rapidly surveyed our faces. Catherine met it with her
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 1: accustomed look of nervousness and yet defiance, which he abhorred.
• 1:25:45
  Speaker 1: It is well you are out of my reach, he exclaimed.
• 1:25:49
  Speaker 1: What fiend possesses you to stare back at me continually
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 1: with those infernal eyes? Down with them, and don't remind
• 1:25:57
  Speaker 1: me of your existence again? I thought I had cured
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 1: you of laughing. It was me, muttered hair Ton. What
• 1:26:05
  Speaker 1: do you say? Demanded the master. Hair Ton looked at
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 1: his plate and did not repeat the confession. Mister Heathcliffe
• 1:26:13
  Speaker 1: looked at him a bit, and then silently resumed his
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 1: breakfast and his interrupted musing. We had nearly finished, and
• 1:26:20
  Speaker 1: the two young people prudently shifted wider asunder, so I
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 1: anticipated no further disturbance during that sitting. When Joseph appeared
• 1:26:27
  Speaker 1: at the door, revealing by his quivering lip and furious
• 1:26:30
  Speaker 1: eyes that the outrage committed on his precious shrubs was detected.
• 1:26:34
  Speaker 1: He must have seen Cathy and her cousin about the
• 1:26:36
  Speaker 1: spot before he examined it. For while his jaws worked
• 1:26:40
  Speaker 1: like those of a cow chewing its cut and rendered
• 1:26:42
  Speaker 1: his speech difficult to understand, he began, I mun chiv
• 1:26:46
  Speaker 1: my wage, and I mun goa. I had aimed to
• 1:26:50
  Speaker 1: d where i'd served first sixty year, and I thought
• 1:26:52
  Speaker 1: i'd lug my books up into t Garrett and all
• 1:26:55
  Speaker 1: my bits so stuff. And they set h v T
• 1:26:59
  Speaker 1: kitchen to their cells for tea sake, O quietness. It
• 1:27:03
  Speaker 1: were hard to g I e up my own heart's done,
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 1: but I thought I could do that. But na shoe's
• 1:27:09
  Speaker 1: ton my garden fro me and by t H hart measter,
• 1:27:13
  Speaker 1: I cannot stand it. Ya may bend to t H yoke,
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 1: and ye will I known used to tea and an
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 1: old man doesn't soon get used to new barthin's. I'd
• 1:27:24
  Speaker 1: rayther ar my biden my sup Why a hammer in
• 1:27:26
  Speaker 1: t H road? Now? Now, idiot interrupted, heathcliff cut it short.
• 1:27:33
  Speaker 1: What's your grievance? I'll interfere in no quarrels between you
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 1: and Nellie. She may thrust you into the coal hole
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 1: for anything I care. It's no Nellie, answered Joseph. I
• 1:27:46
  Speaker 1: sudden shift for Nellie. Nasty yell now as shoe is.
• 1:27:50
  Speaker 1: Thank god, shoe cannot stale tea soowlow nab d Why
• 1:27:55
  Speaker 1: shoe w r neither so handsome? But what a body
• 1:27:58
  Speaker 1: mud look at her about winking? It's Yon flaysome, graceless
• 1:28:03
  Speaker 1: queen that's witched our lad. Why her bold een and
• 1:28:06
  Speaker 1: her forward ways till nay it fair bruists my heart.
• 1:28:12
  Speaker 1: He's forgotten all I've done for him and made on him,
• 1:28:15
  Speaker 1: and gone and riven up a whole row o t
• 1:28:18
  Speaker 1: grandest currant trees, I tea garden. And here he lamented outright,
• 1:28:23
  Speaker 1: unmanned by a sense of his bitter injuries and Earnshaw's
• 1:28:26
  Speaker 1: ingratitude and dangerous condition. Is the fool drunk, asked mister
• 1:28:31
  Speaker 1: Heathcliff hair Ton. Is it you he's finding fault with.
• 1:28:35
  Speaker 1: I've pulled up two or three bushes, replied the young man.
• 1:28:39
  Speaker 1: But I'm going to set him again. And why have
• 1:28:42
  Speaker 1: you pulled them up? Said the master. Catherine wisely put
• 1:28:47
  Speaker 1: in her tongue. We wanted to plant some flowers there,
• 1:28:50
  Speaker 1: she cried, I'm the only person to blame, for I
• 1:28:54
  Speaker 1: wished him to do it. And who the devil gave
• 1:28:57
  Speaker 1: you leave to touch a stick about the place? Demand
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 1: ended her father in law much surprised, And who ordered
• 1:29:03
  Speaker 1: you to obey her? He added, turning to hair Ton.
• 1:29:07
  Speaker 1: The latter was speechless. His cousin replied, you shouldn't grudge
• 1:29:11
  Speaker 1: a few yards of earth from me to ornament when
• 1:29:13
  Speaker 1: you have taken all my land, Your land, insolent slut,
• 1:29:19
  Speaker 1: you never had any, said Heathcliff. And my money, she continued,
• 1:29:24
  Speaker 1: returning his angry glare and meantime biting a piece of
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 1: crust the remnant of her breakfast silence, He exclaimed, get
• 1:29:34
  Speaker 1: done and begone, and Hareton's land and his money pursued
• 1:29:39
  Speaker 1: the reckless thing. Hair Ton and I are friends now,
• 1:29:42
  Speaker 1: and I shall tell him all about you. The master
• 1:29:46
  Speaker 1: seemed confounded. A moment, he grew pale and rose up,
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 1: eyeing her all the while with an expression of mortal hate.
• 1:29:53
  Speaker 1: If you strike me, hair Ton will strike you, she said,
• 1:29:56
  Speaker 1: so you may as well sit down. If hair Ton
• 1:30:00
  Speaker 1: does not turn you out of the room, I'll strike
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 1: him to hell, thundered Heathcliff. Damnable witch. Dare you pretend
• 1:30:07
  Speaker 1: to rouse him against me? Off with her? Do you
• 1:30:11
  Speaker 1: hear fling her into the kitchen? I'll kill her, Ellen Dean,
• 1:30:16
  Speaker 1: if you let her come into my sight again. Haretun
• 1:30:20
  Speaker 1: tried under his breath to persuade her to go. Drag
• 1:30:24
  Speaker 1: her away. He cried savagely, are you staying to talk?
• 1:30:29
  Speaker 1: And he approached to execute his own command. He'll not
• 1:30:33
  Speaker 1: obey you, wicked man, any more, said Catherine, And he'll
• 1:30:37
  Speaker 1: soon detest you as much as I do. Wished, wished,
• 1:30:42
  Speaker 1: muttered the young man reproachfully. I will not hear you
• 1:30:45
  Speaker 1: speak so to him have done, but you won't let
• 1:30:49
  Speaker 1: him strike me? She cried, Come, then, he whispered earnestly.
• 1:30:55
  Speaker 1: It was too late. Heathcliff had caught hold of her.
• 1:30:59
  Speaker 1: Now you go, he said to Earnshaw, a cursed witch.
• 1:31:04
  Speaker 1: This time she has provoked me when I could not
• 1:31:06
  Speaker 1: bear it, and I'll make her repent it forever. He
• 1:31:09
  Speaker 1: had his hand in her hair. Hairtun attempted to release
• 1:31:12
  Speaker 1: her locks, entreating him not to hurt her. That once
• 1:31:16
  Speaker 1: Heathcliffe's black eyes flashed, he seemed ready to tear Catherine
• 1:31:20
  Speaker 1: in pieces. And I was just worked up to risk
• 1:31:22
  Speaker 1: coming to the rescue, when of a sudden his fingers relaxed.
• 1:31:25
  Speaker 1: He shifted his grasp from her head to her arm,
• 1:31:28
  Speaker 1: and gazed intently in her face. Then he drew his
• 1:31:31
  Speaker 1: hand over his eyes, stood a moment to collect himself, apparently,
• 1:31:35
  Speaker 1: and turning anew to Catherine, said with assumed calmness, you
• 1:31:39
  Speaker 1: must learn to avoid putting me in a passion, or
• 1:31:42
  Speaker 1: I shall really murder you some time. Go with missus Dean,
• 1:31:45
  Speaker 1: and keep with her, and confine your insolence to her ears.
• 1:31:50
  Speaker 1: As to hairtun Earnshaw, if I see him listen to you,
• 1:31:53
  Speaker 1: I'll send him seeking his bread where he can get it.
• 1:31:56
  Speaker 1: Your love will make him an outcast and a beggar.
• 1:32:00
  Speaker 1: Lly take her and leave me, all of you leave me.
• 1:32:05
  Speaker 1: I led my young lady out. She was too glad
• 1:32:08
  Speaker 1: of her escape to resist. The other followed, and mister
• 1:32:11
  Speaker 1: Heathcliffe had the room to himself till dinner. I had
• 1:32:14
  Speaker 1: counseled Catherine to dine upstairs, but as soon as he
• 1:32:18
  Speaker 1: perceived her vacant seat, he sent me to call her.
• 1:32:21
  Speaker 1: He spoke to none of us, ate very little, and
• 1:32:24
  Speaker 1: went out directly afterwards, intimating that he should not return
• 1:32:27
  Speaker 1: before evening. The two new friends established themselves in the
• 1:32:31
  Speaker 1: house during his absence, where I heard Hareton sternly check
• 1:32:34
  Speaker 1: his cousin on her offering a revelation of her father
• 1:32:37
  Speaker 1: in law's conduct to his father. He said he wouldn't
• 1:32:41
  Speaker 1: suffer a word to be uttered in his disparagement. If
• 1:32:43
  Speaker 1: he were the devil, it didn't signify he would stand
• 1:32:46
  Speaker 1: by him, and he'd rather she would abuse himself as
• 1:32:49
  Speaker 1: she used to than begin on mister Heathcliffe. Catherine was
• 1:32:53
  Speaker 1: waxing cross at this, but he found means to make
• 1:32:56
  Speaker 1: her hold her tongue by asking how she would like
• 1:32:58
  Speaker 1: him to speak ill of her father. Then she comprehended
• 1:33:02
  Speaker 1: that Earnshaw took the Master's reputation home to himself and
• 1:33:05
  Speaker 1: was attached by ties stronger than reason could break, chains
• 1:33:09
  Speaker 1: forged by habit which it would be cruel to attempt
• 1:33:12
  Speaker 1: to loosen. She showed a good heart thenceforth, in avoiding
• 1:33:16
  Speaker 1: both complaints and expressions of antipathy concerning Heathcliff, and confessed
• 1:33:20
  Speaker 1: to me her sorrow that she had endeavored to raise
• 1:33:22
  Speaker 1: a bad spirit between him and Hartime. Indeed, I don't
• 1:33:26
  Speaker 1: believe she has ever breathed a syllable in the latter's
• 1:33:28
  Speaker 1: hearing against her oppressor. Since when this slight disagreement was over,
• 1:33:33
  Speaker 1: they were friends again, and as busy as possible in
• 1:33:36
  Speaker 1: their several occupations of pupil and teacher. I came in
• 1:33:40
  Speaker 1: to sit with them after I had done my work,
• 1:33:42
  Speaker 1: and I felt so soothed and comforted to watch them
• 1:33:45
  Speaker 1: that I did not notice how time got on. You know,
• 1:33:49
  Speaker 1: they both appeared in a measure my children. I had
• 1:33:51
  Speaker 1: long been proud of one, and now I was sure
• 1:33:55
  Speaker 1: the other would be a source of equal satisfaction. His honest,
• 1:33:59
  Speaker 1: warm and intelligent nature shook off rapidly the clouds of
• 1:34:02
  Speaker 1: ignorance and degradation in which it had been bred, and
• 1:34:05
  Speaker 1: Catherine's sincere commendations acted as a spur to his industry.
• 1:34:10
  Speaker 1: His brightening mind brightened his features, and added spirit and
• 1:34:13
  Speaker 1: nobility to their aspect. I could hardly fancy it the
• 1:34:16
  Speaker 1: same individual I had beheld on the day I discovered
• 1:34:18
  Speaker 1: my little lady at Wuthering Heights after her expedition to
• 1:34:21
  Speaker 1: the crags. While I admired and they labored, dusk drew on,
• 1:34:26
  Speaker 1: and with it returned the Master. He came upon us
• 1:34:29
  Speaker 1: quite unexpectedly, entering by the front way, and had a
• 1:34:33
  Speaker 1: full view of the whole three ere we could raise
• 1:34:35
  Speaker 1: our heads to glance at him. Well, I reflected, there
• 1:34:39
  Speaker 1: was never a pleasanter or more harmless sight, and it
• 1:34:42
  Speaker 1: will be a burning shame to scold them. The red
• 1:34:45
  Speaker 1: firelight glowed on their two bonny heads and revealed their
• 1:34:48
  Speaker 1: faces animated with the eager interest of children, For though
• 1:34:52
  Speaker 1: he was twenty three and she eighteen, each had so
• 1:34:55
  Speaker 1: much of novelty to feel and learn that neither experienced
• 1:34:58
  Speaker 1: nor evinced the sentiments of sober dedas enchanted maturity. They
• 1:35:02
  Speaker 1: lifted their eyes together to encounter mister Heathcliffe. Perhaps you
• 1:35:06
  Speaker 1: have never remarked that their eyes are precisely similar, and
• 1:35:09
  Speaker 1: they are those of Catherine Earnshaw. The present Catherine has
• 1:35:13
  Speaker 1: no other likeness to her except a breadth of forehead
• 1:35:16
  Speaker 1: and a certain arch of the nostril that makes her
• 1:35:18
  Speaker 1: appear rather haughty, whether she will or not. With Haretun
• 1:35:22
  Speaker 1: the resemblance is carried farther. It is singular at all
• 1:35:25
  Speaker 1: times than it was particularly striking because his senses were
• 1:35:29
  Speaker 1: alert and his mental faculties wakened to unwonted activity. I
• 1:35:33
  Speaker 1: suppose this resemblance disarmed mister Heathcliffe. He walked to the
• 1:35:37
  Speaker 1: hearth in evident agitation, but it quickly subsided as he
• 1:35:40
  Speaker 1: looked at the young man, or I should say, altered
• 1:35:43
  Speaker 1: its character, for it was there yet. He took the
• 1:35:46
  Speaker 1: book from his hand and glanced at the open page,
• 1:35:49
  Speaker 1: then returned it without any observation, merely signing Catherine away.
• 1:35:54
  Speaker 1: Her companion lingered very little behind her, and I was
• 1:35:56
  Speaker 1: about to depart also, but he bid me sit still.
• 1:36:00
  Speaker 1: It is a poor conclusion, is it not, he observed,
• 1:36:04
  Speaker 1: having brooded a while on the scene. He had just
• 1:36:06
  Speaker 1: witnessed an absurd termination to my violent exertions. I get
• 1:36:11
  Speaker 1: levers and mattocks to demolish the two houses and train
• 1:36:14
  Speaker 1: myself to be capable of working like Hercules. And when
• 1:36:17
  Speaker 1: everything is ready and in my power, I find the
• 1:36:19
  Speaker 1: will to lift a slate off either roof has vanished.
• 1:36:23
  Speaker 1: My old enemies have not beaten me. Now would be
• 1:36:26
  Speaker 1: the precise time to revenge myself on their representatives. I
• 1:36:29
  Speaker 1: could do it, and none could hinder me. But where
• 1:36:32
  Speaker 1: is the use? I don't care for striking. I can't
• 1:36:36
  Speaker 1: take the trouble to raise my hand. That sounds as
• 1:36:39
  Speaker 1: if I had been laboring the whole time only to
• 1:36:41
  Speaker 1: exhibit a fine trait of magnanimity. It is far from
• 1:36:45
  Speaker 1: being the case. I have lost the faculty of enjoying
• 1:36:48
  Speaker 1: their destruction, and I am too idle to destroy for nothing, Nellie,
• 1:36:53
  Speaker 1: there is a strange change approaching. I am in its
• 1:36:55
  Speaker 1: shadow at present. I take so little interest in my
• 1:36:59
  Speaker 1: daily life that I hardly remember to eat and drink.
• 1:37:02
  Speaker 1: Those two who have left the room are the only
• 1:37:05
  Speaker 1: objects which retain a distinct material appearance to me, and
• 1:37:08
  Speaker 1: that appearance causes me pain amounting to agony. About her.
• 1:37:12
  Speaker 1: I won't speak, and I don't desire to think, but
• 1:37:15
  Speaker 1: I earnestly wish she were invisible. Her presence invokes only
• 1:37:19
  Speaker 1: maddening sensations. He moves me differently, and yet if I
• 1:37:23
  Speaker 1: could do it without seeming insane, i'd never see him again.
• 1:37:27
  Speaker 1: You'll perhaps think me rather inclined to become so, he added,
• 1:37:31
  Speaker 1: making an effort to smile. If I try to describe
• 1:37:33
  Speaker 1: the thousand forms of past associations and ideas he awakens
• 1:37:37
  Speaker 1: or embodies, but you'll not talk of what I tell you,
• 1:37:41
  Speaker 1: and my mind is so eternally secluded in itself it
• 1:37:44
  Speaker 1: is tempting at last to turn it out to another.
• 1:37:47
  Speaker 1: Five minutes ago, Hareton seemed the personification of my youth,
• 1:37:51
  Speaker 1: not a human being. I felt to him in such
• 1:37:53
  Speaker 1: a variety of ways that it would have been impossible
• 1:37:56
  Speaker 1: to have accosted him rationally. In the first place. His
• 1:37:59
  Speaker 1: startling likeness to Catherine connected him fearfully with her. That, however,
• 1:38:04
  Speaker 1: which you may suppose the most potent to arrest my imagination,
• 1:38:08
  Speaker 1: is actually the least. For what is not connected with
• 1:38:11
  Speaker 1: her to me, and what does not recall her. I
• 1:38:15
  Speaker 1: cannot look down to this floor. But her features are
• 1:38:17
  Speaker 1: shaped in the flags, in every cloud, in every tree,
• 1:38:22
  Speaker 1: filling the air at night, and caught by glimpses in
• 1:38:25
  Speaker 1: every object by day. I am surrounded with her image,
• 1:38:29
  Speaker 1: the most ordinary faces of men and women. My own
• 1:38:32
  Speaker 1: features mock me with a resemblance. The entire world is
• 1:38:36
  Speaker 1: a dreadful collection of memoranda that she did exist, and
• 1:38:39
  Speaker 1: that I have lost her well. Hareton's aspect was the
• 1:38:43
  Speaker 1: ghost of my immortal love, of my wild endeavors to
• 1:38:46
  Speaker 1: hold my right, my degradation, my pride, my happiness and
• 1:38:50
  Speaker 1: my anguish. But it is frenzy to repeat these thoughts
• 1:38:53
  Speaker 1: to you. Only it will let you know why, with
• 1:38:56
  Speaker 1: a reluctance to be always alone, his society is no benefit,
• 1:39:00
  Speaker 1: rather an aggravation of the constant torment I suffer, and
• 1:39:04
  Speaker 1: it partly contributes to render me. Regardless how he and
• 1:39:06
  Speaker 1: his cousin go on together, I can give them no
• 1:39:09
  Speaker 1: attention any more. But what do you mean by a change,
• 1:39:13
  Speaker 1: mister Heathcliff, I said, alarmed at his manner, though he
• 1:39:18
  Speaker 1: was neither in danger of losing his senses nor dying.
• 1:39:21
  Speaker 1: According to my judgment, he was quite strong and healthy,
• 1:39:24
  Speaker 1: and as to his reason, from childhood he had a
• 1:39:27
  Speaker 1: delight in dwelling on dark things and entertaining odd fancies.
• 1:39:32
  Speaker 1: He might have had a monomania on the subject of
• 1:39:34
  Speaker 1: his departed idol, but on every other point his wits
• 1:39:37
  Speaker 1: were as sound as mine. I shall not know that
• 1:39:40
  Speaker 1: till it comes, he said, I am only half conscious
• 1:39:43
  Speaker 1: of it. Now. You have no feeling of illness, have you,
• 1:39:47
  Speaker 1: I asked, No, Nellie, I have not. He answered, Then
• 1:39:53
  Speaker 1: you are not afraid of death, I pursued, afraid, No,
• 1:39:59
  Speaker 1: he replied, I have neither a fear, nor a presentiment,
• 1:40:03
  Speaker 1: nor a hope of death. Why should I, with my
• 1:40:07
  Speaker 1: hard constitution and tempered mode of living and unperilous occupations.
• 1:40:12
  Speaker 1: I ought to and probably shall, remain above ground till
• 1:40:15
  Speaker 1: there is scarcely a black hair on my head. And
• 1:40:18
  Speaker 1: yet I cannot continue in this condition. I have to
• 1:40:22
  Speaker 1: remind myself to breathe, almost to remind my heart to beat,
• 1:40:26
  Speaker 1: and it is like bending back a stiff spring. It
• 1:40:29
  Speaker 1: is by compulsion that I do the slightest act not
• 1:40:31
  Speaker 1: prompted by one thought, and by compulsion that I notice
• 1:40:34
  Speaker 1: anything alive or dead which is not associated with one
• 1:40:37
  Speaker 1: universal idea. I have a single wish, and my whole
• 1:40:41
  Speaker 1: being and faculties are yearning to attain it. They have
• 1:40:45
  Speaker 1: yearned towards it so long and so unwaveringly, that I
• 1:40:48
  Speaker 1: am convinced it will be reached and soon. Because it
• 1:40:51
  Speaker 1: has devoured my existence, I am swallowed up in the
• 1:40:54
  Speaker 1: anticipation of its fulfillment. My confessions have not relieved me,
• 1:40:59
  Speaker 1: but they may count for some otherwise unaccountable phases of
• 1:41:02
  Speaker 1: humour which I show. Oh God, it is a long fight.
• 1:41:07
  Speaker 1: I wish it were over. He began to pace the room,
• 1:41:11
  Speaker 1: muttering terrible things to himself, till I was inclined to
• 1:41:14
  Speaker 1: believe as he said Joseph did, that conscience had turned
• 1:41:17
  Speaker 1: his heart to an earthly hell. I wondered greatly how
• 1:41:21
  Speaker 1: it would end. Though he seldom before had revealed this
• 1:41:24
  Speaker 1: state of mind, even by looks, it was his habitual mood.
• 1:41:28
  Speaker 1: I had no doubt he asserted it himself. But not
• 1:41:31
  Speaker 1: a soul from his general bearing would have conjectured the fact.
• 1:41:35
  Speaker 1: You did not when you saw him, mister Lockwood. And
• 1:41:38
  Speaker 1: at the period of which I speak, he was just
• 1:41:40
  Speaker 1: the same as then, only fonder of continued solitude, and
• 1:41:44
  Speaker 1: perhaps still more laconic in Company, chapter thirty four. For
• 1:41:48
  Speaker 1: some days after that evening, mister Heathcliff shunned meeting us
• 1:41:51
  Speaker 1: at meals, Yet he would not consent formally to exclude
• 1:41:54
  Speaker 1: Hairtun and Cathy. He had an aversion to yielding so
• 1:41:58
  Speaker 1: completely to his feelings, choosing rather to absent himself and
• 1:42:02
  Speaker 1: eating once in twenty four hours seemed sufficient sustenance for him.
• 1:42:06
  Speaker 1: One night, after the family were in bed, I heard
• 1:42:09
  Speaker 1: him go downstairs and out at the front door. I
• 1:42:13
  Speaker 1: did not hear him re enter, and in the morning
• 1:42:15
  Speaker 1: I found he was still away. We were in April then.
• 1:42:18
  Speaker 1: The weather was sweet and warm, the grass as green
• 1:42:21
  Speaker 1: as showers and sun could make it, and the two
• 1:42:23
  Speaker 1: dwarf apple trees near the southern wall in full bloom.
• 1:42:27
  Speaker 1: After breakfast, Catherine insisted on my bringing a chair and
• 1:42:31
  Speaker 1: sitting with my work under the fir trees at the
• 1:42:33
  Speaker 1: end of the house, and she beguiled Hartn, who had
• 1:42:35
  Speaker 1: perfectly recovered from his accident, to dig and arrange her
• 1:42:38
  Speaker 1: little garden, which was shifted to that corner by the
• 1:42:41
  Speaker 1: influence of Joseph's complaints. I was comfortably reveling in the
• 1:42:45
  Speaker 1: spring fragrance around and the beautiful, soft blue overhead, when
• 1:42:49
  Speaker 1: my young lady, who had run down near the gate
• 1:42:52
  Speaker 1: to procure some primrose roots for a border, returned only
• 1:42:55
  Speaker 1: half laden and informed us that mister Heathcliff was coming in.
• 1:42:59
  Speaker 1: And he spoke to me. She added, with a perplexed countenance.
• 1:43:03
  Speaker 1: What did he say, asked Hartun. He told me to
• 1:43:07
  Speaker 1: be gone as fast as I could, she answered, But
• 1:43:11
  Speaker 1: he looked so different from his usual look that I
• 1:43:13
  Speaker 1: stopped a moment to stare at him. How he inquired why,
• 1:43:18
  Speaker 1: almost bright and cheerful. No, almost nothing, very much excited
• 1:43:24
  Speaker 1: and wild and glad, she replied, night walking amuses him. Then,
• 1:43:29
  Speaker 1: I remarked, affecting a careless manner in reality, as surprised
• 1:43:33
  Speaker 1: as she was, and anxious to ascertain the truth of
• 1:43:36
  Speaker 1: her statement, For to see the Master looking glad would
• 1:43:39
  Speaker 1: not be an every day spectacle. I framed an excuse
• 1:43:43
  Speaker 1: to go in Heathcliff stood at the open door. He
• 1:43:46
  Speaker 1: was pale, and he trembled, Yet certainly he had a strange,
• 1:43:51
  Speaker 1: joyful glitter in his eyes that altered the aspect of
• 1:43:54
  Speaker 1: his whole face. Will you have some breakfast? I said,
• 1:43:59
  Speaker 1: you must be hungry, rambling about all night. I wanted
• 1:44:03
  Speaker 1: to discover where he had been, but I did not
• 1:44:05
  Speaker 1: like to ask directly. No, I'm not hungry, he answered,
• 1:44:10
  Speaker 1: averting his head and speaking rather contemptuously, as if he
• 1:44:14
  Speaker 1: guessed I was trying to divine the occasion of his
• 1:44:16
  Speaker 1: good humor. I felt perplexed. I didn't know whether it
• 1:44:20
  Speaker 1: were not a proper opportunity to offer a bit of admonition.
• 1:44:24
  Speaker 1: I don't think it right to wander out of doors,
• 1:44:26
  Speaker 1: I observed, instead of being in bed. It is not
• 1:44:29
  Speaker 1: wise at any rate. This moist season. I dare say
• 1:44:33
  Speaker 1: you'll catch a bad cold or a fever. You have
• 1:44:36
  Speaker 1: something the matter with you now, nothing but what I
• 1:44:39
  Speaker 1: can bear, he replied, and with the greatest pleasure, provided
• 1:44:43
  Speaker 1: you'll leave me alone, get in and don't annoy me.
• 1:44:47
  Speaker 1: I obeyed, and in passing I noticed he breathed as
• 1:44:50
  Speaker 1: fast as a cat. Yes, I reflected to myself, we
• 1:44:55
  Speaker 1: shall have a fit of illness. I cannot conceive what
• 1:44:59
  Speaker 1: he has been doing. That noon he sat down to
• 1:45:02
  Speaker 1: dinner with us and received a heaped up plate from
• 1:45:04
  Speaker 1: my hands, as if he intended to make amends for
• 1:45:07
  Speaker 1: previous fasting. I've neither cold nor fever, Nellie, he remarked,
• 1:45:12
  Speaker 1: in allusion to my morning speech. And I'm ready to
• 1:45:15
  Speaker 1: do justice to the food you give me. He took
• 1:45:18
  Speaker 1: his knife and fork and was going to commence eating,
• 1:45:21
  Speaker 1: when the inclination appeared to become suddenly extinct. He laid
• 1:45:25
  Speaker 1: them on the table, looked eagerly towards the window, then
• 1:45:28
  Speaker 1: rose and went out. We saw him walking to and
• 1:45:31
  Speaker 1: fro in the garden while we concluded our meal, and
• 1:45:34
  Speaker 1: Earnshawe said he'd go and ask why he would not dine.
• 1:45:37
  Speaker 1: He thought we had grieved him some way. Well is
• 1:45:40
  Speaker 1: he coming, cried Catherine, when her cousin returned. Nay, he answered,
• 1:45:46
  Speaker 1: but he's not angry. He seemed rarely pleased. Indeed only
• 1:45:49
  Speaker 1: I made him impatient by speaking to him twice, And
• 1:45:52
  Speaker 1: then he bid me be off to you. He wondered
• 1:45:54
  Speaker 1: how I could want the company of anybody else. I
• 1:45:58
  Speaker 1: set his plate to keep warm on the fender, and
• 1:46:00
  Speaker 1: after an hour or two he re entered, when the
• 1:46:02
  Speaker 1: room was clear, in no degree calmer, the same unnatural,
• 1:46:06
  Speaker 1: it was, unnatural appearance of joy under his black brows,
• 1:46:10
  Speaker 1: the same bloodless hue, and his teeth visible now and
• 1:46:13
  Speaker 1: then in a kind of smile, his frame shivering, not
• 1:46:17
  Speaker 1: as one shivers with chill or weakness, but as a
• 1:46:20
  Speaker 1: tight stretched cord vibrates a strong thrilling rather than trembling.
• 1:46:25
  Speaker 1: I will ask what is the matter? I thought, or
• 1:46:28
  Speaker 1: who should? And I exclaimed, have you heard any good news?
• 1:46:32
  Speaker 1: Mister Heathcliff, You look uncommonly animated? Where should good news
• 1:46:37
  Speaker 1: come from to me? He said, I'm animated with hunger,
• 1:46:41
  Speaker 1: and seemingly I must not eat. Your dinner is here,
• 1:46:46
  Speaker 1: I returned, Why won't you get it? I don't want
• 1:46:49
  Speaker 1: it now, he muttered hastily. I'll wait till supper and
• 1:46:54
  Speaker 1: nellie once for all. Let me beg you to one
• 1:46:57
  Speaker 1: hair ton and the other away from me. I wish
• 1:47:00
  Speaker 1: to be troubled by nobody. I wish to have this
• 1:47:02
  Speaker 1: place to myself. Is there some new reason for this banishment?
• 1:47:07
  Speaker 1: I inquired? Tell me why you are so queer, mister Heathcliff.
• 1:47:12
  Speaker 1: Where were you last night? I'm not putting the question
• 1:47:16
  Speaker 1: through idle curiosity, but you are putting the question through
• 1:47:19
  Speaker 1: very idle curiosity, he interrupted with a laugh. Yet I'll
• 1:47:24
  Speaker 1: answer it. Last night I was on the threshold of hell.
• 1:47:28
  Speaker 1: To day I am within sight of my heaven. I
• 1:47:32
  Speaker 1: have my eyes on it, hardly three feet to sever me.
• 1:47:36
  Speaker 1: And now you'd better go. You'll neither see nor hear
• 1:47:39
  Speaker 1: anything to frighten you if you refrain from prying. Having
• 1:47:43
  Speaker 1: swept the hearth and wiped the table, I departed, more
• 1:47:46
  Speaker 1: perplexed than ever. He did not quit the house again
• 1:47:50
  Speaker 1: that afternoon, and no one intruded on his solitude till
• 1:47:54
  Speaker 1: at eight o'clock. I deemed it proper, though unsummoned, to
• 1:47:57
  Speaker 1: carry a candle and his supper to him. He was
• 1:48:00
  Speaker 1: leaning against the ledge of an open lattice, but not
• 1:48:03
  Speaker 1: looking out. His face was turned to the interior gloom.
• 1:48:07
  Speaker 1: The fire had smoldered to ashes. The room was filled
• 1:48:10
  Speaker 1: with the damp, mild air of the cloudy evening, and
• 1:48:13
  Speaker 1: so still that not only the murmur of the beck
• 1:48:15
  Speaker 1: down Gimmerton was distinguishable, but its ripples and its gurgling
• 1:48:19
  Speaker 1: over the pebbles or through the large stones, which it
• 1:48:21
  Speaker 1: could not cover. I uttered an ejaculation of discontent at
• 1:48:25
  Speaker 1: seeing the dismal grate, and commenced shutting the casements one
• 1:48:29
  Speaker 1: after another till I came to his Must I close this,
• 1:48:34
  Speaker 1: I asked, in order to rouse him, for he would
• 1:48:37
  Speaker 1: not stir. The light flashed on his features as I spoke, Oh,
• 1:48:42
  Speaker 1: mister Lockwood, I cannot express what a terrible start I
• 1:48:45
  Speaker 1: got by the momentary view those deep black eyes, that smile,
• 1:48:51
  Speaker 1: and ghastly paleness. It appeared to me not mister Heathcliff,
• 1:48:56
  Speaker 1: but a goblin. And in my terror I let the
• 1:48:58
  Speaker 1: candle bend towards the wall, and it left me in darkness. Yes,
• 1:49:03
  Speaker 1: close it, he replied in his familiar voice. There that
• 1:49:08
  Speaker 1: is pure awkwardness. Why did you hold the candle horizontally,
• 1:49:13
  Speaker 1: be quick and bring another. I hurried out in a
• 1:49:17
  Speaker 1: foolish state of dread, and said to Joseph, the Master
• 1:49:20
  Speaker 1: wishes you to take him alight and rekindle the fire,
• 1:49:24
  Speaker 1: for I dared not go in myself again. Just then
• 1:49:27
  Speaker 1: Joseph rattled some fire into the shovel and went. But
• 1:49:30
  Speaker 1: he brought it back immediately with the supper tray in
• 1:49:33
  Speaker 1: his other hand, explaining that mister Heathcliff was going to
• 1:49:36
  Speaker 1: bed and he wanted nothing to eat till morning. We
• 1:49:40
  Speaker 1: heard him mount the stairs directly. He did not proceed
• 1:49:43
  Speaker 1: to his ordinary chamber, but turned into that with the
• 1:49:45
  Speaker 1: paneled bed. Its window, as I mentioned before, is wide
• 1:49:49
  Speaker 1: enough for anybody to get through. And it struck me
• 1:49:51
  Speaker 1: that he plotted another midnight excursion, of which he had
• 1:49:54
  Speaker 1: rather we had no suspicion. Is he a ghoul or
• 1:49:58
  Speaker 1: a vampire? I mused, I had read of such hideous
• 1:50:03
  Speaker 1: incarnate demons. And then I set myself to reflect how
• 1:50:07
  Speaker 1: I had tended him in infancy, and watched him grow
• 1:50:09
  Speaker 1: to youth, and followed him almost through his whole course.
• 1:50:12
  Speaker 1: And what absurd nonsense it was to yield to that
• 1:50:15
  Speaker 1: sense of horror. But where did he come from? The
• 1:50:18
  Speaker 1: little dark thing harbored by a good man to his bane,
• 1:50:22
  Speaker 1: muttered superstition. As I dozed into unconsciousness, and I began
• 1:50:27
  Speaker 1: half dreaming, to weary myself with imagining some fit parentage
• 1:50:31
  Speaker 1: for him, and repeating my waking meditations, I tracked his
• 1:50:35
  Speaker 1: existence over again, with grim variations, at last picturing his
• 1:50:39
  Speaker 1: death and funeral, of which all I can remember is
• 1:50:44
  Speaker 1: being exceedingly vexed at having the task of dictating an
• 1:50:46
  Speaker 1: inscription for his monument and consulting the sexton about it.
• 1:50:50
  Speaker 1: And as he had no surname and we could not
• 1:50:53
  Speaker 1: tell his age, we were obliged to content ourselves with
• 1:50:56
  Speaker 1: the single word Heathcliff. That came true. We were if
• 1:51:01
  Speaker 1: you enter the kirkyard you'll read on his headstone only
• 1:51:05
  Speaker 1: that and the date of his death. Dawn restored me
• 1:51:08
  Speaker 1: to common sense. I rose and went into the garden
• 1:51:12
  Speaker 1: as soon as I could see, to ascertain if there
• 1:51:15
  Speaker 1: were any footmarks under his window. There were none. He
• 1:51:19
  Speaker 1: has stayed at home, I thought, and he'll be all
• 1:51:22
  Speaker 1: right to day. I prepared breakfast for the household, as
• 1:51:26
  Speaker 1: was my usual custom, but told Hareton and Catherine to
• 1:51:29
  Speaker 1: get their's air. The master came down for he lay late.
• 1:51:32
  Speaker 1: They preferred taking it out of doors under the trees,
• 1:51:36
  Speaker 1: and I set a little table to accommodate them. On
• 1:51:39
  Speaker 1: my re entrance I found mister Heathcliff below. He and
• 1:51:43
  Speaker 1: Joseph were conversing about some farming business. He gave clear
• 1:51:47
  Speaker 1: minute directions concerning the matter discussed, but he spoke rapidly
• 1:51:51
  Speaker 1: and turned his head continually aside, and had the same
• 1:51:54
  Speaker 1: excited expression, even more exaggerated. When Joseph quitted the room,
• 1:51:59
  Speaker 1: he took his seat in the place he generally chose,
• 1:52:01
  Speaker 1: and I put a basin of coffee before him. He
• 1:52:05
  Speaker 1: drew it nearer, and then rested his arms on the
• 1:52:07
  Speaker 1: table and looked at the opposite wall as I supposed,
• 1:52:10
  Speaker 1: surveying one particular portion up and down, with glittering, restless eyes,
• 1:52:15
  Speaker 1: and with such eager interest that he stopped breathing during
• 1:52:18
  Speaker 1: half a minute together. Come now, I exclaimed, pushing some
• 1:52:22
  Speaker 1: bread against his hand, Eat and drink. That while it
• 1:52:25
  Speaker 1: is hot, it has been waiting near an hour. He
• 1:52:28
  Speaker 1: didn't notice me, and yet he smiled. I'd rather have
• 1:52:32
  Speaker 1: seen him gnash his teeth than smile, so, mister heathcliff Master,
• 1:52:39
  Speaker 1: I cried, don't, for God's sake, stare as if you
• 1:52:42
  Speaker 1: saw an unearthly vision, don't, for God's sake shout so loud.
• 1:52:48
  Speaker 1: He replied, Turn round and tell me. Are we by ourselves?
• 1:52:53
  Speaker 1: Of course? Was my answer. Of course we are still.
• 1:52:58
  Speaker 1: I involuntarily obeyed him, as if I was not quite sure.
• 1:53:02
  Speaker 1: With a sweep of his hand, he cleared a vacant
• 1:53:04
  Speaker 1: space in front among the breakfast things, and leant forward
• 1:53:07
  Speaker 1: to gaze more at his ease. Now I perceived he
• 1:53:11
  Speaker 1: was not looking at the wall, for when I regarded
• 1:53:13
  Speaker 1: him alone, it seemed exactly that he gazed at something
• 1:53:16
  Speaker 1: within two yards distance, and whatever it was, it communicated
• 1:53:21
  Speaker 1: apparently both pleasure and pain in exquisite extremes. At least,
• 1:53:25
  Speaker 1: the anguished yet raptured expression of his countenance suggested that
• 1:53:29
  Speaker 1: idea the fancied object was not fixed either. His eyes
• 1:53:33
  Speaker 1: pursued it with unwearied diligence, and even in speaking to me,
• 1:53:37
  Speaker 1: were never weaned away. I vainly reminded him of his
• 1:53:41
  Speaker 1: protracted abstinence from food. If he stirred to touch anything
• 1:53:44
  Speaker 1: in compliance with my entreaties, if he stretched his hand
• 1:53:47
  Speaker 1: out to get a piece of bread, his fingers clenched
• 1:53:50
  Speaker 1: before they reached it, and remained on the table forgetful
• 1:53:53
  Speaker 1: of their aim. I sat a model of patience, trying
• 1:53:57
  Speaker 1: to attract his absorbed attention from its engrossing speculation, till
• 1:54:01
  Speaker 1: he grew irritable and got up, asking why I would
• 1:54:03
  Speaker 1: not allow him to have his own time in taking
• 1:54:05
  Speaker 1: his meals, and saying that on the next occasion I
• 1:54:09
  Speaker 1: needn't wait, I might set the things down and go.
• 1:54:13
  Speaker 1: Having uttered these words, he left the house. Slowly, sauntered
• 1:54:16
  Speaker 1: down the garden path, and disappeared through the gate. The
• 1:54:20
  Speaker 1: hours crept anxiously, by another evening came. I did not
• 1:54:24
  Speaker 1: retire to rest till late, and when I did, I
• 1:54:27
  Speaker 1: could not sleep. He returned after midnight, and instead of
• 1:54:31
  Speaker 1: going to bed, shut himself into the room beneath I
• 1:54:35
  Speaker 1: listened and tossed about, and finally dressed and descended. It
• 1:54:40
  Speaker 1: was too irksome to lie there harassing my brain with
• 1:54:43
  Speaker 1: a hundred idle misgivings. I distinguished mister Heathcliffe's step, restlessly
• 1:54:48
  Speaker 1: measuring the floor, and he frequently broke the silence by
• 1:54:52
  Speaker 1: a deep inspiration, resembling a groan. He muttered detached words. Also,
• 1:54:57
  Speaker 1: the only one I could catch was the name of Catherine,
• 1:55:00
  Speaker 1: coupled with some wild term of endearment or suffering, and
• 1:55:02
  Speaker 1: spoken as one would speak to a person present, low
• 1:55:05
  Speaker 1: and earnest and run from the depth of his soul.
• 1:55:09
  Speaker 1: I had not courage to walk straight into the apartment,
• 1:55:12
  Speaker 1: but I desired to divert him from his reverie, and
• 1:55:14
  Speaker 1: therefore fell foul of the kitchen fire, stirred it, and
• 1:55:17
  Speaker 1: began to scrape the cinders. It drew him forth sooner
• 1:55:21
  Speaker 1: than I expected. He opened the door immediately and said, Nellie,
• 1:55:26
  Speaker 1: come here is it morning? Come in with your light.
• 1:55:30
  Speaker 1: It is striking four. I answered, you want a candle
• 1:55:34
  Speaker 1: to take up stairs? You might have lit one at
• 1:55:37
  Speaker 1: this fire. No, I don't wish to go upstairs, he said,
• 1:55:42
  Speaker 1: Come in and kindle me a fire, and do anything
• 1:55:45
  Speaker 1: there is to do about the room. I must blow
• 1:55:48
  Speaker 1: the coals red first before I can carry any, I replied,
• 1:55:52
  Speaker 1: getting a chair and the bellows. He roamed to and
• 1:55:55
  Speaker 1: fro meantime in a state approaching distraction, his heavy size
• 1:55:59
  Speaker 1: sixus seating each other so thick as to leave no
• 1:56:02
  Speaker 1: space for common breathing between. When day breaks, I'll send
• 1:56:06
  Speaker 1: for green, he said. I wish to make some legal
• 1:56:08
  Speaker 1: inquiries of him. While I can bestow a thought on
• 1:56:10
  Speaker 1: those matters, and while I can act calmly, I have
• 1:56:14
  Speaker 1: not ridden my will yet. And how to leave my
• 1:56:16
  Speaker 1: property I cannot determine. I wish I could annihilate it
• 1:56:20
  Speaker 1: from the face of the earth. I would not talk, so,
• 1:56:23
  Speaker 1: mister Heathcliff, I interposed. Let you will be a while.
• 1:56:28
  Speaker 1: You'll be spared to repent of your many injustices. Yet
• 1:56:31
  Speaker 1: I never expected that your nerves would be disordered. They
• 1:56:34
  Speaker 1: are at present marvelously so. However, and almost entirely through
• 1:56:39
  Speaker 1: your own fault, the way you've passed these three last
• 1:56:43
  Speaker 1: days might knock up a titan. Do take some food
• 1:56:46
  Speaker 1: and some repose. You need only look at yourself in
• 1:56:50
  Speaker 1: a glass to see how you require both. Your cheeks
• 1:56:53
  Speaker 1: are hollow and your eyes bloodshot, like a person starving
• 1:56:57
  Speaker 1: with hunger and going blind with loss of sleep. It
• 1:57:00
  Speaker 1: is not my fault that I cannot eat or rest,
• 1:57:02
  Speaker 1: he replied, I assure you it is through no settled designs.
• 1:57:07
  Speaker 1: I'll do both as soon as I possibly can. But
• 1:57:11
  Speaker 1: you might as well bid a man struggling in the
• 1:57:13
  Speaker 1: water rest within arm's length of the shore. I must
• 1:57:17
  Speaker 1: reach it first, and then I'll rest well. Never mind,
• 1:57:21
  Speaker 1: mister Green, as to repenting of my injustices, I've done
• 1:57:25
  Speaker 1: no injustice, and I repent of nothing. I'm too happy,
• 1:57:29
  Speaker 1: and yet I'm not happy enough. My soul's bliss kills
• 1:57:33
  Speaker 1: my body but does not satisfy itself. Happy master, I
• 1:57:39
  Speaker 1: cried strange happiness. If you would hear me without being angry,
• 1:57:44
  Speaker 1: I might offer some advice that would make you happier.
• 1:57:48
  Speaker 1: What is that? He asked? Give it? You are aware,
• 1:57:53
  Speaker 1: mister Heathcliffe, I said that from the time you were
• 1:57:56
  Speaker 1: thirteen years old you have lived a selfish, Unchristian life,
• 1:57:59
  Speaker 1: and probably hardly had a Bible in your hands during
• 1:58:02
  Speaker 1: all that period. You must have forgotten the contents of
• 1:58:05
  Speaker 1: the book, and you may not have space to search
• 1:58:08
  Speaker 1: it now. Could it be hurtful to send for some one,
• 1:58:11
  Speaker 1: some minister of any denomination. It does not matter which
• 1:58:15
  Speaker 1: to explain it and show you how very far you
• 1:58:17
  Speaker 1: have aired from its precepts, and how unfit you will
• 1:58:20
  Speaker 1: be for its heaven unless a change takes place before
• 1:58:22
  Speaker 1: you die. I'm rather obliged than angry Nelly, he said,
• 1:58:27
  Speaker 1: for you remind me of the manner in which I
• 1:58:29
  Speaker 1: desire to be buried. It is to be carried to
• 1:58:32
  Speaker 1: the churchyard in the evening. You and here Ton may,
• 1:58:36
  Speaker 1: if you please accompany me, and mind particularly to notice
• 1:58:40
  Speaker 1: that the sexton obeys my directions concerning the two coffins.
• 1:58:45
  Speaker 1: No minister need come, nor need anything be said over me.
• 1:58:48
  Speaker 1: Dot I tell you I have nearly attained my heaven,
• 1:58:50
  Speaker 1: and that of others is altogether unvalued and uncoveted by me.
• 1:58:55
  Speaker 1: And supposing you persevered in your obstinate fast and died
• 1:58:58
  Speaker 1: by that means, and they were refused to bury you
• 1:59:00
  Speaker 1: in the precincts of the kirk, I said, shocked at
• 1:59:04
  Speaker 1: his godless indifference, how would you like it? They won't
• 1:59:08
  Speaker 1: do that, he replied. If they did, you must have
• 1:59:12
  Speaker 1: me removed secretly, and if you neglect it, you shall
• 1:59:15
  Speaker 1: prove practically that the dead are not annihilated. As soon
• 1:59:19
  Speaker 1: as he heard the other members of the family stirring,
• 1:59:21
  Speaker 1: he retired to his den, and I breathed freer. But
• 1:59:25
  Speaker 1: in the afternoon, while Joseph and Herton were at their work,
• 1:59:29
  Speaker 1: he came into the kitchen again, and with a wild look,
• 1:59:32
  Speaker 1: bid me come and sit in the house. He wanted
• 1:59:35
  Speaker 1: somebody with him, I declined, telling him plainly that his
• 1:59:38
  Speaker 1: strange talk and manner frightened me, and I had neither
• 1:59:41
  Speaker 1: the nerve nor the will to be his companion alone.
• 1:59:45
  Speaker 1: I believe you think me a fiend, he said, with
• 1:59:47
  Speaker 1: his dismal laugh, something too horrible to live under a
• 1:59:50
  Speaker 1: decent roof. Then, turning to Catherine, who was there, and
• 1:59:55
  Speaker 1: who drew behind me at his approach, he added, half sneeringly,
• 1:59:58
  Speaker 1: will you come, Chuck, I'll not hurt you. No, to you,
• 2:00:04
  Speaker 1: I've made myself worse than the devil. Well, there is
• 2:00:08
  Speaker 1: one who won't shrink from my company. By God, she's relentless.
• 2:00:14
  Speaker 1: Oh damn it. It's unutterably too much for flesh and
• 2:00:18
  Speaker 1: blood to bear, even mine, he solicited, the society of
• 2:00:22
  Speaker 1: no one more. At dusk he went into his chamber.
• 2:00:27
  Speaker 1: Through the whole night and far into the morning, we
• 2:00:30
  Speaker 1: heard him groaning and murmuring to himself. Hareton was anxious
• 2:00:34
  Speaker 1: to enter, but I bid him fetch mister Kenneth, and
• 2:00:37
  Speaker 1: he should go in and see him. When he came
• 2:00:40
  Speaker 1: and I requested admittance and tried to open the door.
• 2:00:43
  Speaker 1: I found it locked, and Heathcliff bid us be damned.
• 2:00:46
  Speaker 1: He was better and would be left alone. So the
• 2:00:49
  Speaker 1: doctor went away. The following evening was very wet, indeed
• 2:00:54
  Speaker 1: it poured down till day dawn, and as I took
• 2:00:57
  Speaker 1: my morning walk round the house, I observed the master's
• 2:01:00
  Speaker 1: window swinging open and the rain driving straight in. He
• 2:01:04
  Speaker 1: cannot be in bed, I thought those showers would drench
• 2:01:07
  Speaker 1: him through. He must either be up or out. But
• 2:01:11
  Speaker 1: I'll make no more ado. I'll go boldly and look.
• 2:01:15
  Speaker 1: Having succeeded in obtaining entrance with another key, I ran
• 2:01:19
  Speaker 1: to unclose the panels, for the chamber was vacant. Quickly
• 2:01:22
  Speaker 1: pushing them aside, I peeped in. Mister Heathcliff was there,
• 2:01:27
  Speaker 1: laid on his back. His eyes met mine, so keen
• 2:01:30
  Speaker 1: and fierce, I started, and then he seemed to smile.
• 2:01:34
  Speaker 1: I could not think him dead, but his face and
• 2:01:37
  Speaker 1: throat were washed with rain. The bedclothes dripped, and he
• 2:01:40
  Speaker 1: was perfectly still. The lattice flapping to and fro, had
• 2:01:45
  Speaker 1: grazed one hand that rested on the sill. No blood
• 2:01:48
  Speaker 1: trickled from the broken skin, and when I put my
• 2:01:50
  Speaker 1: fingers to it, I could doubt no more. He was
• 2:01:53
  Speaker 1: dead and stark. I hasped the window. I combed his black,
• 2:01:57
  Speaker 1: long hair from his forehead. I tried to close his eyes,
• 2:02:00
  Speaker 1: to extinguish, if possible, that frightful lifelike gaze of exultation
• 2:02:05
  Speaker 1: before any one else beheld it. They would not shut.
• 2:02:09
  Speaker 1: They seemed to sneer at my attempts, and his parted
• 2:02:11
  Speaker 1: lips and sharp white teeth sneered too. Taken with another
• 2:02:15
  Speaker 1: fit of cowardice, I cried out for Joseph. Joseph shuffled
• 2:02:20
  Speaker 1: up and made a noise, but resolutely refused to meddle
• 2:02:23
  Speaker 1: with him. T h divels harried off his soul. He cried,
• 2:02:27
  Speaker 1: and he made h e v his carcass into teague,
• 2:02:30
  Speaker 1: bargain for aught. I care eck what a wicked un
• 2:02:35
  Speaker 1: he looks, girning at death, and the old sinner grinned
• 2:02:38
  Speaker 1: in mockery. I thought he intended to cut a caper
• 2:02:41
  Speaker 1: round the bed, but suddenly composing himself, he fell on
• 2:02:45
  Speaker 1: his knees and raised his hands and returned. Thanks that
• 2:02:48
  Speaker 1: the lawful Master and the ancient stock were restored to
• 2:02:51
  Speaker 1: their rights. I felt stunned by the awful event, and
• 2:02:54
  Speaker 1: my memory unavoidably recurred to former times with a sort
• 2:02:57
  Speaker 1: of oppressive sadness. But poor hair Ton, the most wronged,
• 2:03:02
  Speaker 1: was the only one who really suffered much. He sat
• 2:03:06
  Speaker 1: by the corpse all night, weeping in bitter earnest. He
• 2:03:09
  Speaker 1: pressed its hand and kissed the sarcastic, savage face that
• 2:03:13
  Speaker 1: every one else shrank from contemplating, and bemoaned him with
• 2:03:16
  Speaker 1: that strong grief which springs naturally from a generous heart,
• 2:03:19
  Speaker 1: though it be tough as tempered steel. Mister Kenneth was
• 2:03:23
  Speaker 1: perplexed to pronounce of what disorder the master died. I
• 2:03:27
  Speaker 1: concealed the fact of his having swallowed nothing for four days,
• 2:03:30
  Speaker 1: fearing it might lead to trouble, And then I am
• 2:03:33
  Speaker 1: persuaded he did not abstain on purpose. It was the
• 2:03:36
  Speaker 1: consequence of his strange illness, not the cause. We buried
• 2:03:41
  Speaker 1: him to the scandal of the whole neighborhood. As he
• 2:03:43
  Speaker 1: wished Earnshaw and I, the sexton, and six men to
• 2:03:48
  Speaker 1: carry the coffin comprehended the whole attendants. The six men
• 2:03:52
  Speaker 1: departed when they had let it down into the grave.
• 2:03:55
  Speaker 1: We stayed to see it covered hair ton with a
• 2:03:58
  Speaker 1: streaming face. Dug grint sods and laid them over the
• 2:04:01
  Speaker 1: brown mold himself. At present it is as smooth and
• 2:04:04
  Speaker 1: verdant as its companion mounds, and I hope its tenant
• 2:04:07
  Speaker 1: sleeps as soundly. But the country folks, if you ask them,
• 2:04:12
  Speaker 1: would swear on the Bible that he walks. There are
• 2:04:14
  Speaker 1: those who speak to having met him near the church
• 2:04:16
  Speaker 1: and on the moor, and even within this house. Idle tales,
• 2:04:21
  Speaker 1: you'll say, And so say I. Yet that old man
• 2:04:25
  Speaker 1: by the kitchen fire of firms, he has seen too
• 2:04:27
  Speaker 1: on them looking out of his chamber window on every
• 2:04:29
  Speaker 1: rainy night since his death. And an odd thing happened
• 2:04:32
  Speaker 1: to me about a month ago. I was going to
• 2:04:35
  Speaker 1: the grange one evening, a dark evening, threatening thunder, and
• 2:04:39
  Speaker 1: just at the turn of the heights I encountered a
• 2:04:41
  Speaker 1: little boy with a sheep and two lambs before him.
• 2:04:44
  Speaker 1: He was crying terribly, and I suppose the lambs were
• 2:04:47
  Speaker 1: skittish and would not be guided. What is the matter,
• 2:04:50
  Speaker 1: my little man, I asked, There's heathcliff and a woman
• 2:04:55
  Speaker 1: yonder under tea nab. He blubbered on. I dar not
• 2:04:59
  Speaker 1: pass m I saw nothing, but neither the sheep nor
• 2:05:03
  Speaker 1: he would go on, so I bid him take the
• 2:05:05
  Speaker 1: road lower down. He probably raised the phantoms from thinking
• 2:05:09
  Speaker 1: as he traversed the moors alone on the nonsense he
• 2:05:12
  Speaker 1: had heard his parents and companions repeat. Yet still, I
• 2:05:17
  Speaker 1: don't like being out in the dark now, and I
• 2:05:19
  Speaker 1: don't like being left by myself in this grim house.
• 2:05:22
  Speaker 1: I cannot help it. I shall be glad when they
• 2:05:24
  Speaker 1: leave it and shift to the grange. They are going
• 2:05:27
  Speaker 1: to the grange, then, I said, yes, answered missus Dean,
• 2:05:33
  Speaker 1: as soon as they are married, and that will be
• 2:05:35
  Speaker 1: on New Year's Day. And who will live here then, why?
• 2:05:40
  Speaker 1: Joseph will take care of the house, and perhaps a
• 2:05:43
  Speaker 1: lad to keep him company. They will live in the kitchen,
• 2:05:46
  Speaker 1: and the rest will be shut up for the use
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  Speaker 1: of such ghosts as choose to inhabit it. I observed no,
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  Speaker 1: mister Lockwood, said Nellie, shaking her head. I believe the
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  Speaker 1: dead are at peace, but it is not right to
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  Speaker 1: speak of them with levity. At that moment, the garden
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  Speaker 1: gate swung to the ramblers were returning. They are afraid
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  Speaker 1: of nothing, I grumbled, watching their approach through the window.
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  Speaker 1: Together they would brave Satan and all his legions. As
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  Speaker 1: they stepped on to the door stones and halted to
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  Speaker 1: take a last look at the moon, or more correctly,
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  Speaker 1: at each other. By her light, I felt irresistibly impelled
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  Speaker 1: to escape them again, and pressing a remembrance into the
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  Speaker 1: hand of Missus Dean, and disregarding her expostulations at my rudeness,
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  Speaker 1: I vanished through the kitchen as they opened the house door,
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  Speaker 1: and so should have confirmed Joseph in his opinion of
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  Speaker 1: his fellow servant's gay indiscretions, had he not fortunately recognized
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  Speaker 1: me for a respectable character by the sweet ring of
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  Speaker 1: a sovereign at his feet. My walk home was lengthened
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  Speaker 1: by a diversion in the direction of the kirk. When
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  Speaker 1: beneath its walls I perceived decay had made progress. Even
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  Speaker 1: in seven months. Many a window showed black gaps deprived
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  Speaker 1: of glass, and slates jutted off here and there beyond
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  Speaker 1: the right line of the roof, to be gradually worked
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  Speaker 1: off in coming autumn storms. I saw it, and soon
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  Speaker 1: discovered the three headstones on the slope next the moor,
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  Speaker 1: the middle one gray and half buried in heath. Edgar
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  Speaker 1: Linton's only harmonized by the turf and moss creeping up
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  Speaker 1: its foot, heathcliffs still bare. I lingered round them under
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  Speaker 1: that benign sky, watched the moths fluttering among the heath
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  Speaker 1: and harebells, listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass,
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  Speaker 1: and wondered how any one could ever imagine unquiet slumbers
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  Speaker 1: for the sleepers in that quiet earth. The end. Thanks
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  Speaker 1: for listening.