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Wuthering Heights

CHAPTER XXIX
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I heard him draw a pleasant picture to Zillah of what he would do if he were as strong as I: the inclination is there, and his very weakness will sharpen his wits to find a substitute for strength.' 'I know he has a bad nature,' said Catherine: 'he's your son.

But I'm glad I've a better, to forgive it; and I know he loves me, and for that reason I love him.

Mr.Heathcliff _you_ have _nobody_ to love you; and, however miserable you make us, we shall still have the revenge of thinking that your cruelty arises from your greater misery.

You _are_ miserable, are you not?
Lonely, like the devil, and envious like him?
_Nobody_ loves you--_nobody_ will cry for you when you die! I wouldn't be you!' Catherine spoke with a kind of dreary triumph: she seemed to have made up her mind to enter into the spirit of her future family, and draw pleasure from the griefs of her enemies.
'You shall be sorry to be yourself presently,' said her father-in-law, 'if you stand there another minute.

Begone, witch, and get your things!' She scornfully withdrew.


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