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The master tried to explain the matter; but he was really half
dead with fatigue, and all that I could make out, amongst her
scolding, was a tale of his seeing it starving, and houseless, and as
good as dumb, in the streets of Liverpool, where he picked it up
and inquired for its owner. Not a soul knew to whom it belonged,
he said; and his money and time being both limited, he thought it
better to take it home with him at once than run into vain
expenses there; because he was determined he would not leave it
as he found it.

Well, the conclusion was that my mistress grumbled herself
calm; and Mr. Earnshaw told me to wash it, and give it clean
things, and let it sleep with the children.

Hindley and Cathy contented themselves with looking and
listening till peace was restored; then, both began searching their
father’s pockets for the presents he had promised them. The
former was a boy of fourteen, but when he drew out what had
been a fiddle, crushed to morsels in the greatcoat, he blubbered
aloud; and Cathy, when she learned the master had lost her whip
in attending on the stranger, showed her humour by grinning and
spitting at the stupid little thing, earning for her pains a sound
blow from her father to teach her cleaner manners.

They entirely refused to have it in bed with them, or even in
their room; and I had no more sense, so I put it on the landing of
the stairs, hoping it might be gone on the morrow. By chance, or
else attracted by hearing his voice, it crept to Mr. Earnshaw’s
door, and there he found it on quitting his chamber. Inquiries
were made as to how it got there; I was obliged to confess, and in
recompense for my cowardice and inhumanity was sent out of the
house.


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