Wuthering heights. A novel

1847·11 MB·English

by  Brontë, Emily, 1818-1848

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WUTUERIiNG HEIGHTS
A x\OVEL
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ELLIS BELL
IN THREE VOLUMES.
VOL. L
LONDON:
THOMAS CAUTLEY NEWBY, PUBLISHER,
72, MORTIMER St.,CAVENDISH Sq.
1847.

WUTHERING HEIGHTS.
CHAPTER L
1801 1 have just returned from a visit to
my landlord—the solitary neighbour that I
shall be troubled with. This is certainly, a
beautiful country! In all England, 1 do not
believe that I could have fixed on a situation
so completely removed from the stir ofsociety.
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perfect misanthropist's Heaven and Mr.
Heathcliff and I are such a suitable pair to
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divide the desolation between us. capital
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fellow I He little imagined how my heart
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warmed towards him when 1 beheld his black
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J WUTHERING HEIGHTS.
eyes withdraw so suspiciously under their
brows, as I rode up, and when his fingers shel-
tered themselves, with ajealous resolution, still
further in his waistcoat, as 1 anoounced my
name.
'*Mr. HeathclifF?" I said.
A
nod was the answer.
—
" Mr. Lockwood your new tenant, sir I do
myselfthe honour of calling assoon as possible,
after my arrival, to express the hope that I
have not inconvenienced you by my perseve-
rance in soliciting the occupation of Thrush-
cross Grange I heard, yesterday, you had
: —
had some thoughts
" Thrushcross Grange is my own, sir," he
interrupted wincing, " I should not allow any
one to inconvenience me, if I couldhinder it-
walk in !^'
The '' walk in," was uttered with closed
teeth and expressed the sentiment, " Go to the
Deuce !" even the gate over which he leant
manifested no sympathizing movement to the