1 She beat Hareton, or any child, at a good passionate fit of crying.
2 Fit to cry, I took an orange from my pocket, and offered it to propitiate him.
3 I cried out that he would frighten the child into fits, and ran to rescue him.
4 I wrung my hands, and cried out; and Mr. Linton hastened his step at the noise.
5 Mr. Earnshaw, provided he saw him healthy and never heard him cry, was contented, as far as regarded him.
6 At last his cries were choked by a dreadful fit of coughing; blood gushed from his mouth, and he fell on the ground.
7 We were reconciled; but we cried, both of us, the whole time I stayed: not entirely for sorrow; yet I was sorry Linton had that distorted nature.
8 Not so my companion: she ran back in terror, knelt down, and cried, and soothed, and entreated, till he grew quiet from lack of breath: by no means from compunction at distressing her.
9 And then she cried, and took a little picture from her neck, and said I should have that; two pictures in a gold case, on one side her mother, and on the other uncle, when they were young.
10 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.
11 Catherine kissed her father, and sat down quietly to her lessons for a couple of hours, according to custom; then she accompanied him into the grounds, and the whole day passed as usual: but in the evening, when she had retired to her room, and I went to help her to undress, I found her crying, on her knees by the bedside.
12 She kept wandering to and fro, from the gate to the door, in a state of agitation which permitted no repose; and at length took up a permanent situation on one side of the wall, near the road: where, heedless of my expostulations and the growling thunder, and the great drops that began to plash around her, she remained, calling at intervals, and then listening, and then crying outright.