"And I dying!" exclaimed "Am I ill?" asked Caroline of
Catherine to Mrs. Dean. "I on Mrs. Pryor, and looked at
the brink of the grave! My God! herself in the glass; ... she
does he know how I'm altered?" felt ... her brain in strange
continued she, staring at her activity.... Now followed a hot,
reflection in a mirror.... How parched, restless night ... one
dreary to meet death surrounded terrible dream seized her like a
by their cold faces.... Edgar [? tiger ... a fever of mental
Mr. Brontë] standing solemnly by excitement, and a languor of
to see it over; then offering long conflict and habitual
prayers of thanks to God for sadness had fanned the flame ...
restoring peace to his house, and left a well-lit fire behind
and going back to his _books_. it....
Tossing about, she increased her
feverish bewilderment of "Oh!" exclaimed Caroline, "God
madness, ... then, raising grant me a little comfort before
herself, desired that ... [Mrs. I die!... But he [Moor(e)] will
Dean] would open the window. come when I am senseless, cold,
and stiff. What can my departed
And farther on, in delirium, as soul feel then? Can it see or
though her lover were present:-- know what happens to the clay?
Can spirits through any medium
"Heath(cliffe) ... they may bury communicate with living flesh?
me twelve feet deep, and throw Can the dead at all re-visit
the church down over me, and I those they leave? Can they come
won't rest till you are with in the elements? Will wind,
me!" ["Heath(cliffe), I only water, fire, lend me a path to
wish us never to be parted, and Moor(e)? Is it for nothing the
should a word of mine distress wind ... passes the casement
you hereafter, think I feel the sobbing?... Does nothing haunt
same distress underground," says it?"
Catherine, in a further chapter]
"I never will." She paused and When Catherine dies Heathcliffe
resumed ... [Heath(cliffe's)] says:--"Catherine ... you said I
considering--"He'd rather I'd killed you--haunt me then!" And
come to him! Find a way haunt him she does. In the words
then![84] not through that of Caroline Helstone of
kirkyard. You are slow! Be _Shirley_ she "revisits him she
content, you always followed has left." She "goes in the
me!" elements," "the wind lends her a
path[84] to her lover," and it
Mrs. Dean perceived it vain "to is not "for nothing the wind
argue against her insanity." passes the casement of
_Wuthering Heights_
sobbing"--she "haunts it" as the
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