Wuthering Heights: Original Text
- ISBN-10
- ISBN-13
- 9798679031111
- Series
- Wuthering Heights
- Pages
- 244
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2020-08-25
- Author
- Emily Brontë
Description
1801.-I have just returned from a visit to my landlord-the solitary neighbour that I shallbe troubled with. This is certainly a beautiful country! In all England, I do not believe that Icould have fixed on a situation so completely removed from the stir of society. A perfectmisanthropist's heaven: and Mr. Heathcliff and I are such a suitable pair to divide thedesolation between us. A capital fellow! He little imagined how my heart warmed towardshim when I beheld his black eyes withdraw so suspiciously under their brows, as I rode up, and when his fingers sheltered themselves, with a jealous resolution, still further in hiswaistcoat, as I announced my name.'Mr. Heathcliff?' I said.A nod was the answer.'Mr. Lockwood, your new tenant, sir. I do myself the honour of calling as soon as possibleafter my arrival, to express the hope that I have not inconvenienced you by myperseverance in soliciting the occupation of Thrushcross Grange: I heard yesterday you hadhad some thoughts-''Thrushcross Grange is my own, sir, ' he interrupted, wincing. 'I should not allow any one toinconvenience me, if I could hinder it-walk in!'The 'walk in' was uttered with closed teeth, and expressed the sentiment, 'Go to the Deuce: 'even the gate over which he leant manifested no sympathising movement to the words; andI think that circumstance determined me to accept the invitation: I felt interested in a manwho seemed more exaggeratedly reserved than myself.When he saw my horse's breast fairly pushing the barrier, he did put out his hand tounchain it, and then sullenly preceded me up the causeway, calling, as we entered thecourt, -'Joseph, take Mr. Lockwood's horse; and bring up some wi
