1 My mother lived till eighty, a canty dame to the last.
2 Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.
3 Mr. Heathcliff, meeting me one day in the village, inquired where she lived.
4 I said Mrs. Heathcliff lived above a dozen years after quitting her husband.
5 But Mr. Heathcliff forms a singular contrast to his abode and style of living.
6 Zillah has told me something of the way they go on, otherwise I should hardly know who was dead and who living.
7 Living among clowns and misanthropists, she probably cannot appreciate a better class of people when she meets them.
8 The Jonah, in my mind, was Mr. Earnshaw; and I shook the handle of his den that I might ascertain if he were yet living.
9 A woman whom I knew, and who formerly lived at Gimmerton, answered: she had been servant there since the death of Mr. Earnshaw.
10 She did not know, she answered: she had only lived there a year or two; and they had so many queer goings on, she could not begin to be curious.
11 That housekeeper left, if I recollect rightly, two years after he came; and another, whom I did not know, was her successor; she lives there still.
12 Then he took the two horses, and led them into the stables; reappearing for the purpose of locking the outer gate, as if we lived in an ancient castle.
13 When I chanced to encounter the housekeeper of Wuthering Heights, in paying business visits to Gimmerton, I used to ask how the young master got on; for he lived almost as secluded as Catherine herself, and was never to be seen.
14 I knew no living thing in flesh and blood was by; but, as certainly as you perceive the approach to some substantial body in the dark, though it cannot be discerned, so certainly I felt that Cathy was there: not under me, but on the earth.
15 He said he called to gather information concerning me from you, supposing you resided there still; and Joseph told Hindley, who came out and fell to questioning him of what he had been doing, and how he had been living; and finally, desired him to walk in.
16 On fine evenings the latter followed his shooting expeditions, and Catherine yawned and sighed, and teased me to talk to her, and ran off into the court or garden the moment I began; and, as a last resource, cried, and said she was tired of living: her life was useless.
17 But Heathcliff affirms his principal reason for resuming a connection with his ancient persecutor is a wish to install himself in quarters at walking distance from the Grange, and an attachment to the house where we lived together; and likewise a hope that I shall have more opportunities of seeing him there than I could have if he settled in Gimmerton.
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