[Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte]@TWC D-Link bookWuthering Heights CHAPTER XXXIV 12/37
'You want a candle to take up-stairs: you might have lit one at this fire.' 'No, I don't wish to go up-stairs,' he said.
'Come in, and kindle _me_ a fire, and do anything there is to do about the room.' 'I must blow the coals red first, before I can carry any,' I replied, getting a chair and the bellows. He roamed to and fro, meantime, in a state approaching distraction; his heavy sighs succeeding each other so thick as to leave no space for common breathing between. 'When day breaks I'll send for Green,' he said; 'I wish to make some legal inquiries of him while I can bestow a thought on those matters, and while I can act calmly.
I have not written my will yet; and how to leave my property I cannot determine.
I wish I could annihilate it from the face of the earth.' 'I would not talk so, Mr.Heathcliff,' I interposed.
'Let your will be a while: you'll be spared to repent of your many injustices yet! I never expected that your nerves would be disordered: they are, at present, marvellously so, however; and almost entirely through your own fault. The way you've passed these three last days might knock up a Titan.
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