[Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte]@TWC D-Link bookWuthering Heights CHAPTER XII 3/28
Are you speaking the truth about him now? Take care.
Is he actually so utterly indifferent for my life ?' 'Why, ma'am,' I answered, 'the master has no idea of your being deranged; and of course he does not fear that you will let yourself die of hunger.' 'You think not? Cannot you tell him I will ?' she returned.
'Persuade him! speak of your own mind: say you are certain I will!' 'No, you forget, Mrs.Linton,' I suggested, 'that you have eaten some food with a relish this evening, and to-morrow you will perceive its good effects.' 'If I were only sure it would kill him,' she interrupted, 'I'd kill myself directly! These three awful nights I've never closed my lids--and oh, I've been tormented! I've been haunted, Nelly! But I begin to fancy you don't like me.
How strange! I thought, though everybody hated and despised each other, they could not avoid loving me.
And they have all turned to enemies in a few hours: they have, I'm positive; the people here.
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