1 The servants affirmed they had not seen her.
2 He gave all the servants but me, notice to quit.
3 If his servants oppose me, I shall threaten them off with these pistols.
4 I am sure you have thought a great deal more than the generality of servants think.
5 Ere long I perceived a group of the servants passing up the road towards the kitchen wing.
6 He descended, and bidding the servants wait in the passage, went, followed by me, to the kitchen.
7 The servants could not bear his tyrannical and evil conduct long: Joseph and I were the only two that would stay.
8 From that period, for several months, she ceased to hold any communication with me, save in the relation of a mere servant.
9 The servants thought me gone to shake off the drowsiness of my protracted watch; in reality, my chief motive was seeing Mr. Heathcliff.
10 Though I would give no information, he discovered, through some of the other servants, both her place of residence and the existence of the child.
11 Cathy would fain have taken one glance, but her father told her to come, and they walked together up the park, while I hastened before to prepare the servants.
12 Mr. Earnshaw was, of course, invited to attend the remains of his sister to the grave; he sent no excuse, but he never came; so that, besides her husband, the mourners were wholly composed of tenants and servants.
13 He drove him from their company to the servants, deprived him of the instructions of the curate, and insisted that he should labour out of doors instead; compelling him to do so as hard as any other lad on the farm.
14 He concealed it from her; but if ever he heard me answer sharply, or saw any other servant grow cloudy at some imperious order of hers, he would show his trouble by a frown of displeasure that never darkened on his own account.
15 I did not close my eyes that night, nor did Mr. Linton: indeed, we never went to bed; and the servants were all up long before the usual hour, moving through the house with stealthy tread, and exchanging whispers as they encountered each other in their vocations.
16 She held her hand interposed between the furnace-heat and her eyes, and seemed absorbed in her occupation; desisting from it only to chide the servant for covering her with sparks, or to push away a dog, now and then, that snoozled its nose overforwardly into her face.
17 I bid them be quiet, now that they saw me returned, and, benumbed to my very heart, I dragged up-stairs; whence, after putting on dry clothes, and pacing to and fro thirty or forty minutes, to restore the animal heat, I adjourned to my study, feeble as a kitten: almost too much so to enjoy the cheerful fire and smoking coffee which the servant had prepared for my refreshment.
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