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might have guessed I was over head and ears: she understood me
at last, and looked a return--the sweetest of all imaginable looks.
And what did I do? I confess it with shame--shrunk icily into
myself, like a snail; at every glance retired colder and farther; till
finally the poor innocent was led to doubt her own senses, and,
overwhelmed with confusion at her supposed mistake, persuaded
her mamma to decamp. By this curious turn of disposition I have
gained the reputation of deliberate heartlessness; how
undeserved, I alone can appreciate.

I took a seat at the end of the hearthstone opposite that towards
which my landlord advanced, and filled up an interval of silence
by attempting to caress the canine mother, who had left her
nursery, and was sneaking wolfishly to the back of my legs, her lip
curled up, and her white teeth watering for a snatch. My caress
provoked a long, guttural gnarl.

“You’d better let the dog alone,” growled Mr. Heathcliff in
unison, checking fiercer demonstrations with a punch of his foot.
“She’s not accustomed to be spoiled--not kept for a pet.” Then,
striding to a side door, he shouted again, “Joseph!”

Joseph mumbled indistinctly in the depths of the cellar, but
gave no intimation of ascending; so his master dived down to him,
leaving me vis-à-vis the ruffianly bitch and a pair of grim shaggy
sheepdogs, who shared with her a jealous guardianship over all
my movements. Not anxious to come in contact with their fangs, I
sat still; but, imagining they would scarcely understand tacit
insults, I unfortunately indulged in winking and making faces at
the trio, and some turn of my physiognomy so irritated madam,
that she suddenly broke into a fury, and leapt on my knees. I flung
her back, and hastened to interpose the table between us. This


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