1 At first the young man appeared about to befriend me.
2 A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.
3 Joseph was an elderly, nay, an old man: very old, perhaps, though hale and sinewy.
4 The young man had been washing himself, as was visible by the glow on his cheeks and his wetted hair.
5 He had grown a tall, athletic, well-formed man; beside whom my master seemed quite slender and youth-like.
6 He neither wept nor prayed; he cursed and defied: execrated God and man, and gave himself up to reckless dissipation.
7 But, I thought in my mind, Hindley, with apparently the stronger head, has shown himself sadly the worse and the weaker man.
8 I might have seen there was too great a disparity between the ages of the parties to make it likely that they were man and wife.
9 Something stirred in the porch; and, moving nearer, I distinguished a tall man dressed in dark clothes, with dark face and hair.
10 I seized the handle to essay another trial; when a young man without coat, and shouldering a pitchfork, appeared in the yard behind.
11 It required a great deal of labour to satisfy the old man that Heathcliff was not the aggressor; especially with my hardly-wrung replies.
12 In an instant one was wrung free, and the astonished young man felt it applied over his own ear in a way that could not be mistaken for jest.
13 He dashed his head against the knotted trunk; and, lifting up his eyes, howled, not like a man, but like a savage beast being goaded to death with knives and spears.
14 He was a plain rough man; and he made no scruple to speak his doubts of her surviving this second attack; unless she were more submissive to his directions than she had shown herself before.
15 Meanwhile, the young man had slung on to his person a decidedly shabby upper garment, and, erecting himself before the blaze, looked down on me from the corner of his eyes, for all the world as if there were some mortal feud unavenged between us.
16 I grew very uncomfortable, meanwhile; for the afternoon wore fast away, the man whom I had sent off returned from his errand, and I could distinguish, by the shine of the western sun up the valley, a concourse thickening outside Gimmerton chapel porch.
17 One state resembles setting a hungry man down to a single dish, on which he may concentrate his entire appetite and do it justice; the other, introducing him to a table laid out by French cooks: he can perhaps extract as much enjoyment from the whole; but each part is a mere atom in his regard and remembrance.
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