w stock, was born. We were busy with the hay in a far-away field, when the girl that usually brought

many months. I heard him tell Mr. Hindley: and now she has nothing to keep her, and she'll be dead before winter. You must come home directly. You're to n

asked, flinging down my

spite of Kenneth. I was fairly mad at him. Dame Archer brought the cherub down to master, in the house, and his face just began to light up, when the old croaker steps forward, and says he-"Earnshaw, it's a blessing your wife has been spared to leave you this son.

he master answe

s zealous as herself, hurried eagerly home to admire, on my part; though I was very sad for Hindley's sake. He had room in his he

he stood at the front door; and, as I

t, Nell!' he replied, put

ventured to inquire; '

me next week. Are you going up-stairs? will you tell her that I'll come, if she'll promise not to talk. I

ed merrily, 'I hardly spoke a word, Ellen, and there he has gone out twice, crying.

Kenneth warned him that his medicines were useless at that stage of the malady, and he needn't put him to further expense by attending her, he retorted, 'I know you need not-she

in the act of saying she thought she should be able to get up to-morrow, a fit of coughing took her-a very s

He neither wept nor prayed; he cursed and defied: execrated God and man, and gave himself up to reckless dissipation. The servants could not bear his tyrannical and evil conduct long: Joseph and I were the only two that would stay. I had not the heart to leave m

house we had. The curate dropped calling, and nobody decent came near us, at last; unless Edgar Linton's visits to Miss Cathy might be an exception. At fifteen she was the queen of the country-side; she had no peer; and she did turn out a haughty, headstrong creature! I own I did not like her, after infancy was past; and I vexed her frequently by trying to bring down her arrogance: she never took an aversion to me, though.

med a sweet picture. The long light hair curled slightly on the temples; the eyes were large and serious; the figure almost too graceful. I did not marvel how Catherine Ea

it,' I observed to the h

when he was animated; that is his everyda

ld lady and gentleman by her ingenious cordiality; gained the admiration of Isabella, and the heart and soul of her brother: acquisitions that flattered her from the first-for she was full of ambition-and led her to adopt a double character without exactly intending to deceive any one. In the pl

not artful, never played the coquette, and had evidently an objection to her two friends meeting at all; for when Heathcliff expressed contempt of Linton in his presence, she could not half coincide, as she did in his absence; and when Linton evinced disgust and antipathy to Heathcliff, she dared not treat his sentiments with indifference, as if depreciation of her playmate were of scarcely any conse

hard work, begun soon and concluded late, had extinguished any curiosity he once possessed in pursuit of knowledge, and any love for books or learning. His childhood's sense of superiority, instilled into him by the favours of old Mr. Earnshaw, was faded away. He struggled long to keep up an equality with Catherine in her studies, and yielded with poignant though silent regret: but he yielded completely; and there was no prevailing on him

e could be no gratification in lavishing such marks of affection on him. On the before-named occasion he came into the house to announce his intention of doing nothing, while I was assisting Miss Cathy to arrange her dress: she

fternoon?' asked Heathcliff

raining,' s

ock on, then?' he said. 'N

should be in the field now, Heathcliff. It is a

cursed presence,' observed the boy. 'I'll n

tell,' she suggeste

side of Penistone Crags; it will take

th the way for an intrusion. 'Isabella and Edgar Linton talked of calling this afternoon,' she said, at the conclusion of a minut

't turn me out for those pitiful, silly friends of yours! I'm o

e added petulantly, jerking her head away from my hands, 'you've combed my hair quite out of

g near the window, and continued, 'The crosses are for the evenings you have spent wi

e!' replied Catherine, in a peevish t

do take notice,'

tated. 'What good do I get? What do you talk about? You might be dumb, or

little, or that you disliked my company, Cat

en people know nothing and

cted summon she had received. Doubtless Catherine marked the difference between her friends, as one came in and the other went out. The contrast resembled what you see in exchanging a bleak, hilly, coal country fo

a look at me: I had begun to wipe the plate, and

rine. 'What are you

d given me directions to make a third party

d your dusters off; when company are in the house, servants do

swered aloud: 'he hates me to be fidgeting over these th

dy imperiously, not allowing her guest time to speak: she had faile

,' was my response; and I proceed

the arm. I've said I did not love her, and rather relished mortifying her vanity now and then: besides, she hurt me extremely; so I s

ing to repeat the act, and her ears red with rage. She never had power

orted, showing a decided p

ly impelled by the naughty spirit within her, slapped me on

n, greatly shocked at the double fault of fals

len!' she repeated,

l the poor child waxed livid, and Edgar thoughtlessly laid hold of her hands to deliver him. In an instant one was wrung free, and the astonished young man felt it applied over his own ear in a way that could not be mistaken for jest. He drew back in consternation. I l

ning and begone! It's a kindness to let you

' demanded Catherine,

ide, and atte

!' she exclaimed

l!' he replied i

nton: sit down; you shall not leave me in that temper. I sho

you have struck

ine wa

shamed of you,' he continued

o glisten and he

deliberate unt

did nothing deliberately. Well, go, if you please

in serious earnest. Edgar persevered in his resolution as far

As bad as any marred child: you'd better be riding

to his fate! And so it was: he turned abruptly, hastened into the house again, shut the door behind him; and when I went in a while after to inform them that Earnshaw had come home rabid drunk, ready to pull the whole place about our ear

shot out of the master's fowling-piece, which he was fond of playing with in his insane excitement, to the hazard of the lives of any who provoked, or