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combed her beautiful hair, and gave her a pair of enormous
slippers, and wheeled her to the fire; and I left her, as merry as she
could be, dividing her food between the little dog and Skulker,
whose nose she pinched as she ate; and kindling a spark of spirit
in the vacant blue eyes of the Lintons--a dim reflection from her
own enchanting face. I saw they were full of stupid admiration;
she is so immeasurably superior to them--to everybody on earth,
is she not, Nelly?”

“There will more come of this business than you reckon on,” I
answered, covering him up and extinguishing the light. “You are
incurable, Heathcliff; and Mr. Hindley will have to proceed to
extremities, see if he won’t.”

My words came truer than I desired. The luckless adventure
made Earnshaw furious. And then Mr. Linton, to mend matters,
paid us a visit himself on the morrow; and read the young master
such a lecture on the road he guided his family, that he was stirred
to look about him, in earnest.

Heathcliff received no flogging, but he was told that the first
word he spoke to Miss Catherine should ensure a dismissal; and
Mrs. Earnshaw undertook to keep her sister-in-law in due
restraint when she returned home; employing art, not force--with
force she would have found it impossible.


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