[Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte]@TWC D-Link bookWuthering Heights CHAPTER VI 12/14
"I've understood from Shielders"' (that was the curate, sir) '"that he lets her grow up in absolute heathenism. But who is this? Where did she pick up this companion? Oho! I declare he is that strange acquisition my late neighbour made, in his journey to Liverpool--a little Lascar, or an American or Spanish castaway." '"A wicked boy, at all events," remarked the old lady, "and quite unfit for a decent house! Did you notice his language, Linton? I'm shocked that my children should have heard it." 'I recommenced cursing--don't be angry, Nelly--and so Robert was ordered to take me off.
I refused to go without Cathy; he dragged me into the garden, pushed the lantern into my hand, assured me that Mr.Earnshaw should be informed of my behaviour, and, bidding me march directly, secured the door again.
The curtains were still looped up at one corner, and I resumed my station as spy; because, if Catherine had wished to return, I intended shattering their great glass panes to a million of fragments, unless they let her out.
She sat on the sofa quietly.
Mrs. Linton took off the grey cloak of the dairy-maid which we had borrowed for our excursion, shaking her head and expostulating with her, I suppose: she was a young lady, and they made a distinction between her treatment and mine.
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