1 I showed another, keeping it out of his reach.
2 At least, I would not keep my doors barred in the day-time.
3 You must let her have a maid to keep things tidy about her, and you must treat her kindly.
4 She did not know my share in contributing to the disturbance, and I was anxious to keep her in ignorance.
5 And he dreaded that mind: it revolted him: he shrank forebodingly from the idea of committing Isabella to its keeping.
6 The greatest punishment we could invent for her was to keep her separate from him: yet she got chided more than any of us on his account.
7 The work they studied was full of costly pictures; and those and their position had charm enough to keep them unmoved till Joseph came home.
8 He remarked that it was not of any moment, only she must beware of coming to her brother: she should not be with him, if he had to keep her himself.
9 Mr. Heathcliff may have entirely dissimilar reasons for keeping his hand out of the way when he meets a would-be acquaintance, to those which actuate me.
10 I took her hand in mine, and bid her be composed; for a succession of shudders convulsed her frame, and she would keep straining her gaze towards the glass.
11 No plan offered itself: the very exhibition of any desire to keep him would have rendered the claimant more peremptory: there was nothing left but to resign him.
12 At first, I expected there would be sad work persuading you to let me keep my word to Linton: for I had engaged to call again next day, when we quitted him; but, as you stayed up-stairs on the morrow, I escaped that trouble.
13 Mr. Heathcliff did not explain his reasons for taking a new mind about my coming here; he only told me he wanted me, and he was tired of seeing Catherine: I must make the little parlour my sitting-room, and keep her with me.
14 I knew that you could not keep up an acquaintance with your cousin without being brought into contact with him; and I knew he would detest you on my account; so for your own good, and nothing else, I took precautions that you should not see Linton again.
15 Heathcliff received no flogging, but he was told that the first word he spoke to Miss Catherine should ensure a dismissal; and Mrs. Earnshaw undertook to keep her sister-in-law in due restraint when she returned home; employing art, not force: with force she would have found it impossible.
16 He struggled long to keep up an equality with Catherine in her studies, and yielded with poignant though silent regret: but he yielded completely; and there was no prevailing on him to take a step in the way of moving upward, when he found he must, necessarily, sink beneath his former level.
17 Thereat, Catherine silently turned her face from us, and, very stealthily, drew out her pocket-handkerchief and applied it to her eyes; and her cousin, after struggling awhile to keep down his softer feelings, pulled out the letter and flung it on the floor beside her, as ungraciously as he could.
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