Let the door remain shut, and be quiet!" '"No! I've formed my resolution, and by God I'll execute it!" cried the desperate being.

"I'll do you a kindness in spite of yourself, and Hareton justice! And you needn't trouble your head to screen me; Catherine is gone.

Nobody alive would regret me, or be ashamed, though I cut my throat this minute--and it's time to make an end!" 'I might as well have struggled with a bear, or reasoned with a lunatic.
The only resource left me was to run to a lattice and warn his intended victim of the fate which awaited him.
'"You'd better seek shelter somewhere else to-night!" I exclaimed, in rather a triumphant tone.

"Mr.Earnshaw has a mind to shoot you, if you persist in endeavouring to enter." '"You'd better open the door, you--" he answered, addressing me by some elegant term that I don't care to repeat.
'"I shall not meddle in the matter," I retorted again.

"Come in and get shot, if you please.