Wuthering Heights

that couple of black fiends, so deeply buried, who never open their windows boldly, but lurk glinting under them, like devil’s spies?

He’s always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself,

his dread of that owner amounted to superstition; and he confined his feelings regarding him to muttered innuendos and private comminations.

I thought, though everybody hated and despised each other, they could not avoid loving me.

believe that if I might be as sweet, and as kind, and as good as you are, I would

‘I won’t have them, now,’ she answered. ‘I shall connect them with you, and hate them.’

Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same; and Linton’s is as different as a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire.’

I wish I had light hair and a fair skin, and was dressed and behaved as well, and had a chance of being as rich as he will be!’

continual hard work, begun soon and concluded late, had extinguished any curiosity he once possessed in pursuit of knowledge, and any love for books or learning.