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Wuthering Heights

CHAPTER XXXIII
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She may thrust you into the coal-hole for anything I care.' 'It's noan Nelly!' answered Joseph.

'I sudn't shift for Nelly--nasty ill nowt as shoo is.

Thank God! _shoo_ cannot stale t' sowl o' nob'dy! Shoo wer niver soa handsome, but what a body mud look at her 'bout winking.
It's yon flaysome, graceless quean, that's witched our lad, wi' her bold een and her forrard ways--till--Nay! it fair brusts my heart! He's forgotten all I've done for him, and made on him, and goan and riven up a whole row o' t' grandest currant-trees i' t' garden!' and here he lamented outright; unmanned by a sense of his bitter injuries, and Earnshaw's ingratitude and dangerous condition.
'Is the fool drunk ?' asked Mr.Heathcliff.

'Hareton, is it you he's finding fault with ?' 'I've pulled up two or three bushes,' replied the young man; 'but I'm going to set 'em again.' 'And why have you pulled them up ?' said the master.
Catherine wisely put in her tongue.
'We wanted to plant some flowers there,' she cried.

'I'm the only person to blame, for I wished him to do it.' 'And who the devil gave _you_ leave to touch a stick about the place ?' demanded her father-in-law, much surprised.


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