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348 person either. There was the same man: his dark face rather sallower and more composed, his frame a stone or two heavier, perhaps, and no other difference. Catherine had risen, with an impulse to dash out, when she saw him. “Stop!” he said, arresting her by the arm. “No more runnings away! Where would you go? I’m come to fetch you home; and I hope you’ll be a dutiful daughter, and not encourage my son to further disobedience. I was embarrassed how to punish him, when I discovered his part in the business--he’s such a cobweb, a pinch would annihilate him--but you’ll see by his look that he has received his due! I brought him down one evening, the day before yesterday, and just set him in a chair, and never touched him afterwards. I sent Hareton out, and we had the room to ourselves. In two hours, I called Joseph to carry him up again; and since then my presence is as potent on his nerves as a ghost; and I fancy he sees me often, though I am not near. Hareton says he wakes and shrieks in the night by the hour together, and calls you to protect him from me; and, whether you like your precious mate or not, you must come--he’s your concern now; I yield all my interest in him to you.” “Why not let Catherine continue here?” I pleaded, “and send Master Linton to her. As you hate them both, you’d not miss them; they can only be a daily plague to your unnatural heart.” “I’m seeking a tenant for the Grange,” he answered; “and I want my children about me, to be sure--besides, that lass owes me her services for her bread; I’m not going to nurture her in luxury and idleness after Linton is gone. Make haste and get ready now. And don’t oblige me to compel you.” |
