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385 Chapter 33 On the morrow of that Monday, Earnshaw being still unable to follow his ordinary employments, and therefore remaining about the house, I speedily found it would be impracticable to retain my charge beside me, as heretofore. She got downstairs before me, and out into the garden, where she had seen her cousin performing some easy work; and when I went to bid them come to breakfast, I saw she had persuaded him to clear a large space of ground from currant and gooseberry bushes, and they were busy planning together an importation of plants from the Grange. I was terrified at the devastation which had been accomplished in a brief half-hour: the blackcurrant trees were the apple of Joseph’s eye, and she had just fixed her choice of a flower-bed in the midst of them! “There! That will be all shown to the master,” I exclaimed, “the minute it is discovered. And what excuse have you to offer for taking such liberties with the garden? We shall have a fine explosion on the head of it, see if we don’t! Mr. Hareton, I wonder you should have no more wit, than to go and make that mess at her bidding!” “I’d forgotten they were Joseph’s,” answered Earnshaw, rather puzzled; “but I’ll tell him I did it.” We always ate our meals with Mr. Heathcliff. I held the mistress’s post in making tea and carving, so I was indispensable at table. Catherine usually sat by me; but today she stole nearer to Hareton; and I presently saw she would have no more discretion in her friendship than she had in her hostility. |
