CHAPTER 29

NOTE: How many people has Heathcliff tormented? It's hard
to keep track. Yet his cruelty doesn't bore you, since much of
it-unlike what you see on television-is left to your
imagination. Heathcliff only hinted, for instance, at what he
was doing to Isabella. And when he describes his punishment
of Linton for letting Cathy out, he will say only that: - I
brought him down one evening... and just set him in a chair,
and never touched him afterwards.... In two hours I called
Joseph to carry him up again, and since then my presence is as
potent on his nerves as a ghost.... - What did Heathcliff do? Did
he say anything? Did he just look at him? The description of a
simple beating would have been less horrifying, for at least you
would have known what happened.

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