Well, you must allow me to leap over some three years; during that space Mrs.Earnshaw--' 'No, no, I'll allow nothing of the sort! Are you acquainted with the mood of mind in which, if you were seated alone, and the cat licking its kitten on the rug before you, you would watch the operation so intently that puss's neglect of one ear would put you seriously out of temper ?' 'A terribly lazy mood, I should say.' 'On the contrary, a tiresomely active one.

It is mine, at present; and, therefore, continue minutely.

I perceive that people in these regions acquire over people in towns the value that a spider in a dungeon does over a spider in a cottage, to their various occupants; and yet the deepened attraction is not entirely owing to the situation of the looker-on.

They _do_ live more in earnest, more in themselves, and less in surface, change, and frivolous external things.

I could fancy a love for life here almost possible; and I was a fixed unbeliever in any love of a year's standing.