Wuthering-Heights by Unknown
Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-02-22T02:57:07+00:00
Chapter XVII
THAT Friday made the last of our fine days for a month. In the evening the weather broke: the wind shifted from south to northeast, and brought rain first, and then sleet and snow. On the morrow one could hardly imagine that there had been three weeks of summer: the primroses and crocuses were hidden under wintry drifts; the larks were silent, the young leaves of the early trees smitten and blackened. And dreary, and chill, and dismal, that morrow did creep over! My master kept his room; I took possession of the lonely parlour, converting it into a nursery: and there I was, sitting with the moaning doll of a child laid on my knee; rocking it to and fro, and watching, meanwhile, the still driving flakes build up the uncurtained window, when the door opened, and some person entered, out of breath and laughing! My anger was greater than my astonishment for a minute. I supposed it one of the maids, and I cried âHave done! How dare you show your giddiness here; What would Mr. Linton say if he heard you?â
âExcuse me!â answered a familiar voice; âbut I know Edgar is in bed, and I cannot stop myself.â
With that the speaker came forward to the fire, panting and holding her hand to her side.
âI have run the whole way from Wuthering Heights!â she continued, after a pause; âexcept where Iâve flown. I couldnât count the number of falls Iâve had. Oh, Iâm aching all over! Donât be alarmed! There shall be an explanation as soon as I can give it; only just have the goodness to step out and order the carriage to take me on to Gimmerton, and tell a servant to seek up a few clothes in my wardrobe.â
The intruder was Mrs. Heathcliff. She certainly seemed in no laughing predicament: her hair streamed on her shoulders, dripping with snow and water; she was dressed in the girlish dress she commonly wore, befitting her age more than her position: a low frock with short sleeves, and nothing on either head or neck. The frock was of light silk, and clung to her with wet, and her feet were protected merely by thin slippers; add to this a deep cut under one ear, which only the cold prevented from bleeding profusely, a white face scratched and bruised, and a frame hardly able to support itself through fatigue; and you may fancy my first fright was not much allayed when I had had leisure to examine her.
âMy dear young lady,â I exclaimed, âIâll stir nowhere, and hear nothing, till you have removed every article of your clothes, and put on dry things; and certainly you shall not go to Gimmerton tonight, so it is needless to order the carriage.â
âCertainly I shall,â she said; âwalking or riding: yet Iâve no objection to dress myself decently. And ah, see how it flows down my neck now! The fire does make it smart.â
She insisted on my fulfilling her directions, before
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