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„Don’t you think Hindley would be proud of his son, if he could see him? Almost as proud as I am of mine. But there’s this difference, one is gold put to the use of paving stones; and the other is tin polished to ape a service of silver. Mine has nothing valuable about it; yet I shall have the merit of making it go as far as such poor stuff can go. His had first-rate qualities, and they are lost — rendered worse than unavailing.“
„Rough as a saw-edge, and hard as whinstone! The less you meddle with him the better.“
„My cousin fancies you are an idiot. There you experience the consequence of scorning “book larning,” as you would say. Have you noticed, Catherine, his frightful Yorkshire pronunciation?“
„No, I’m running on too fast: I bestow my own attributes over-liberally on him.“
„His brightening mind brightened his features, and added spirit and nobility to their aspect.“
„Oh, if God would but give me strength to strangle him in my last agony, I’d go to hell with joy.“
„I assure you, a tiger, or a venomous serpent could not rouse terror in me equal to that which he wakens.“
„The winter wind is loud and wild,Come close to me, my darling child;Forsake thy books, and mateless play;And, while the night is gathering grey,We’ll talk its pensive hours away;“
„Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.“
„The thing that irks me most is this shattered prison, after all. I’m tired, tired of being enclosed here. I’m wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there; not seeing it dimly through tears, and yearning for it through the walls of an aching heart; but really with it, and in it.“
„Cathy, this lamb of yours threatens like a bull!“
„Shall Earth no more inspire thee,Thou lonely dreamer now?Since passion may not fire theeShall Nature cease to bow?Thy mind is ever movingIn regions dark to thee;Recall its useless roving —Come back and dwell with me“
„First melted off the hope of youthThen Fancy’s rainbow fast withdrewAnd then experience told me truthIn mortal bosoms never grew’Twas grief enough to think mankindAll hollow servile insincereBut worse to trust to my own mindAnd find the same corruption there“
„For that mist may break when the sun is highAnd this soul forget its sorrowAnd the rose ray of the closing dayMay promise a brighter morrow.“
„The worst tempered bit of a sickly slip that ever struggled into its teens! Happily, as Mr. Heathcliff conjectured, he’ll not win twenty! I doubt whether he’ll see spring indeed — and small loss to his family, whenever he drops off; and lucky it is for us that his father took him. The kinder he was treated, the more tedious and selfish he’d be! I’m glad you have no chance of having him for a husband, Miss Catherine!“
„You are worse than twenty foes, you poisonous friend!“
„What matters it, that, all around,Danger, and guilt, and darkness lie,If but within our bosom’s boundWe hold a bright, untroubled sky,Warm with ten thousand mingled raysOf suns that know no winter days?“
„But, thou art ever there, to bringThe hovering vision back, and breatheNew glories o’er the blighted spring,And call a lovelier Life from Death,And whisper, with a voice divine,Of real worlds, as bright as thine.“
„Instead of a wild, hatless little savage jumping into the house, and rushing to squeeze us all breathless, there lighted from a handsome black pony a very dignified person with brown ringlets falling from the cover of a feathered beaver, and a long cloth habit which she was obliged to hold up with both hands that she might sail in.“
„A heaven so clear, an earth so calm,So sweet, so soft, so hushed an air;And, deepening still the dreamlike charm,Wild moor-sheep feeding everywhere.“
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