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said wildly--

“You teach me how cruel you’ve been--cruel and false. Why did
you despise me? Why did you betray your own heart, Cathy? I
have not one word of comfort. You deserve this. You have killed
yourself. Yes, you may kiss me, and cry; and wring out my kisses
and tears: they’ll blight you--they’ll damn you. You loved me--
then what right had you to leave me? What right--answer me--for
the poor fancy you felt for Linton? Because misery, and
degradation, and death, and nothing that God or Satan could
inflict would have parted us, you, of your own will, did it. I have
not broken your heart--you have broken it; and in breaking it, you
have broken mine. So much the worse for me, that I am strong. Do
I want to live? What kind of living will it be when you--oh, God!
would you like to live with your soul in the grave?”

“Let me alone. Let me alone,” sobbed Catherine. “If I’ve done
wrong, I’m dying for it. It is enough! You left me too--but I won’t
upbraid you! I forgive you. Forgive me!”

“It is hard to forgive, and to look at those eyes, and feel those
wasted hands,” he answered. “Kiss me again; and don’t let me see
your eyes! I forgive what you have done to me. I love my
murderer--but yours! How can I?”

They were silent--their faces hid against each other, and
washed by each other’s tears. At least, I suppose the weeping was
on both sides; as it seemed Heathcliff could weep on a great
occasion like this.

I grew very uncomfortable, meanwhile; for the afternoon wore
fast away, the man whom I had sent off returned from his errand,
and I could distinguish, by the shine of the westering sun up the
valley, a concourse thickening outside Gimmerton chapel porch.


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