[Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte]@TWC D-Link bookWuthering Heights CHAPTER I 5/9
He'll love and hate equally under cover, and esteem it a species of impertinence to be loved or hated again.
No, I'm running on too fast: I bestow my own attributes over-liberally on him.
Mr.Heathcliff may have entirely dissimilar reasons for keeping his hand out of the way when he meets a would-be acquaintance, to those which actuate me.
Let me hope my constitution is almost peculiar: my dear mother used to say I should never have a comfortable home; and only last summer I proved myself perfectly unworthy of one. While enjoying a month of fine weather at the sea-coast, I was thrown into the company of a most fascinating creature: a real goddess in my eyes, as long as she took no notice of me.
I 'never told my love' vocally; still, if looks have language, the merest idiot might have guessed I was over head and ears: she understood me at last, and looked a return--the sweetest of all imaginable looks.
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