1 I waited five minutes, but getting no answer left him.
2 I bowed and waited, thinking she would bid me take a seat.
3 Ah, I thought myself, she might recover, so waited on as she was.
4 She was absent such a while that Joseph proposed we should wait no longer.
5 He descended, and bidding the servants wait in the passage, went, followed by me, to the kitchen.
6 Love for my life urged a compliance; I stepped over the threshold to wait till the others should enter.
7 Neither appeared inclined to dine, and, having waited till all was cold on the table, I commenced alone.
8 I descended, and found Heathcliff waiting under the porch, evidently anticipating an invitation to enter.
9 My little mistress behaved like an angel in coming to wait on me, and cheer my solitude; the confinement brought me exceedingly low.
10 I put the orange in his hand, and bade him tell his father that a woman called Nelly Dean was waiting to speak with him, by the garden gate.
11 I waited behind her chair, and was pained to behold Catherine, with dry eyes and an indifferent air, commence cutting up the wing of a goose before her.
12 I felt that God had forsaken the stray sheep there to its own wicked wanderings, and an evil beast prowled between it and the fold, waiting his time to spring and destroy.
13 He said Mr. Green, the lawyer, was out when he arrived at his house, and he had to wait two hours for his re-entrance; and then Mr. Green told him he had a little business in the village that must be done; but he would be at Thrushcross Grange before morning.