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After breakfast, Catherine insisted on my bringing a chair and sitting with my work under the fir-trees at the end of the house; and she beguiled Hareton, who had recovered from his accident, to dig and arrange her little garden, which was shifted to that corner by the influence of Joseph's complaints.
Hindley Earnshaw drank himself to death about the same time, after mortgaging every yard of his land for cash; and Heathcliff was the mortgagee. So Hareton Earnshaw, who should have been the first gentleman in the neighbourhood, was reduced to dependence on his father's enemy, in whose house he lived, ignorant that he had been wronged. The motives of Heathcliff now became clear.
Catherine usually sat by me, but to-day she stole nearer to Hareton; and I presently saw she would have no more discretion in her friendship than she had in her hostility. 'Now, mind you don't talk with and notice your cousin too much, were my whispered instructions as we entered the room. 'It will certainly annoy Mr. Heathcliff, and he'll be mad at you both. 'I'm not going to, she answered.
Yah knaw whet t' Scripture ses. And he began quoting several texts, referring us to chapters and verses where we might find them. I, having vainly begged the wilful girl to rise and remove her wet things, left him preaching and her shivering, and betook myself to bed with little Hareton, who slept as fast as if everyone had been sleeping round him.
'He twitched his shoulder as Juno twitches hers. Ask him, Ellen. 'Mr. Hareton will ask the master to send you up-stairs, if you don't behave! I said. He had not only twitched his shoulder but clenched his fist, as if tempted to use it. 'I know why Hareton never speaks, when I am in the kitchen, she exclaimed, on another occasion. 'He is afraid I shall laugh at him. Ellen, what do you think?
'And my money, she continued; returning his angry glare, and meantime biting a piece of crust, the remnant of her breakfast. 'Silence! he exclaimed. 'Get done, and begone! 'And Hareton's land, and his money, pursued the reckless thing. 'Hareton and I are friends now; and I shall tell him all about you!
At a notice that I could do with her no longer intercepting my light, she removed to the hearthstone. I bestowed little attention on her proceedings, but, presently, I heard her begin 'I've found out, Hareton, that I want that I'm glad that I should like you to be my cousin now, if you had not grown so cross to me, and so rough. Hareton returned no answer.
'A man's life is of more consequence than one evening's neglect of the horses: somebody must go, murmured Mrs. Heathcliff, more kindly than I expected. 'Not at your command! retorted Hareton. 'If you set store on him, you'd better be quiet. 'Then I hope his ghost will haunt you; and I hope Mr. Heathcliff will never get another tenant till the Grange is a ruin, she answered, sharply.
He had ceased drinking at a point below irrationality, and had neither stirred nor spoken during two or three hours. There was no sound through the house but the moaning wind, which shook the windows every now and then, the faint crackling of the coals, and the click of my snuffers as I removed at intervals the long wick of the candle. Hareton and Joseph were probably fast asleep in bed.
I leant forward also, for the purpose of signing to Heathcliff, whose step I recognised, not to come further; and, at the instant when my eye quitted Hareton, he gave a sudden spring, delivered himself from the careless grasp that held him, and fell. There was scarcely time to experience a thrill of horror before we saw that the little wretch was safe.
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