"1801—I have just returned from a visit to my landlord—the solitary neighbour that I shall be trouble..."

"Yesterday afternoon set in misty and cold. I had half a mind to spend it by my study fire, instead o..."

"While leading the way upstairs, she recommended that I should hide the candle, and not make a noise;..."

"What vain weather-cocks we are! I, who had determined to hold myself independent of all social inter..."

"In the course of time Mr. Earnshaw began to fail. He had been active and healthy, yet his strength l..."

"Mr. Hindley came home to the funeral; and—a thing that amazed us, and set the neighbours gossiping r..."

"Cathy stayed at Thrushcross Grange five weeks: till Christmas. By that time her ankle was thoroughly..."

"On the morning of a fine June day my first bonny little nursling, and the last of the ancient Earnsh..."

"He entered, vociferating oaths dreadful to hear; and caught me in the act of stowing his son away in..."

"A charming introduction to a hermit’s life! Four weeks’ torture, tossing, and sickness! Oh, these bl..."

"Sometimes, while meditating on these things in solitude, I’ve got up in a sudden terror, and put on..."

"While Miss Linton moped about the park and garden, always silent, and almost always in tears; and he..."

"For two months the fugitives remained absent; in those two months, Mrs. Linton encountered and conqu..."

"As soon as I had perused this epistle I went to the master, and informed him that his sister had arr..."

"Another week over—and I am so many days nearer health, and spring! I have now heard all my neighbour..."

"About twelve o’clock that night was born the Catherine you saw at Wuthering Heights: a puny, seven-m..."

"That Friday made the last of our fine days for a month. In the evening the weather broke: the wind s..."

"The twelve years, continued Mrs. Dean, following that dismal period were the happiest of my life: my..."

"A letter, edged with black, announced the day of my master’s return. Isabella was dead; and he wrote..."

"To obviate the danger of this threat being fulfilled, Mr. Linton commissioned me to take the boy hom..."

"We had sad work with little Cathy that day: she rose in high glee, eager to join her cousin, and suc..."

"Summer drew to an end, and early autumn: it was past Michaelmas, but the harvest was late that year,..."

"The rainy night had ushered in a misty morning—half frost, half drizzle—and temporary brooks crossed..."

"At the close of three weeks I was able to quit my chamber and move about the house. And on the first..."

"“These things happened last winter, sir,” said Mrs. Dean; “hardly more than a year ago. Last winter,..."

"Summer was already past its prime, when Edgar reluctantly yielded his assent to their entreaties, an..."

"Seven days glided away, every one marking its course by the henceforth rapid alteration of Edgar Lin..."

"On the fifth morning, or rather afternoon, a different step approached—lighter and shorter; and, thi..."

"The evening after the funeral, my young lady and I were seated in the library; now musing mournfully..."

"I have paid a visit to the Heights, but I have not seen her since she left: Joseph held the door in..."

"Yesterday was bright, calm, and frosty. I went to the Heights as I proposed: my housekeeper entreate..."

"1802.—This September I was invited to devastate the moors of a friend in the north, and on my journe..."

"On the morrow of that Monday, Earnshaw being still unable to follow his ordinary employments, and th..."

"For some days after that evening, Mr. Heathcliff shunned meeting us at meals; yet he would not conse..."