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183 to his? Before you leave this house, I must exact a promise from you, that you’ll get me an interview with her: consent, or refuse, I will see her! What do you say?” “I say, Mr. Heathcliff,” I replied, “you must not--you never shall, through my means. Another encounter between you and the master would kill her altogether.” “With your aid, that may be avoided,” he continued; “and should there be danger of such an event--should he be the cause of adding a single trouble more to her existence--why, I think I shall be justified in going to extremes! I wish you had sincerity enough to tell me whether Catherine would suffer greatly from his loss: the fear that she would restrains me. And there you see the distinction between our feelings: had he been in my place and I in his, though I hated him with a hatred that turned my life to gall, I never would have raised a hand against him. You may look incredulous, if you please! I never would have banished him from her society as long as she desired his. The moment her regard ceased, I would have torn his heart out, and drank his blood! But, till then--if you don’t believe me, you don’t know me--till then, I would have died by inches before I touched a single hair of his head!” “And yet,” I interrupted, “you have no scruples in completely ruining all hopes of her perfect restoration, by thrusting yourself into her remembrance now, when she has nearly forgotten you, and involving her in a new tumult of discord and distress.” “You suppose she has nearly forgotten me?” he said. “Oh, Nelly! you know she has not! You know as well as I do, that for every thought she spends on Linton, she spends a thousand on me! At a most miserable period of my life, I had a notion of the |
