_Wuthering Heights._ _Jane Eyre._ Chapter III. Chapter I. A rainy day in the early A rainy day in the early childhood of Catherine childhood of Jane Eyre, Earnshaw, as told by herself. as told by herself. -------- -------- ... All day had been flooding There was no possibility of with rain; we could not go to taking a walk that day, ... church. the cold winter wind had brought with it a rain so penetrating that further outdoor exercise was out of the question. Hindley [Branwell Brontë] and Eliza, John [Branwell Brontë], his wife [? Sister Maria] basked and Georgiana were now clustered downstairs before a comfortable round their mamma [Aunt fire. Branwell] in the drawing-room ... by the fireside ... looking perfectly happy. Heathcliffe [Method I., Me she had dispensed from interchange of the sexes. In joining the group.... A small the childhood of Heathcliffe breakfast-room adjoined the Charlotte often portrays drawing-room; I slipped in herself], myself, and the ... there, ... I possessed myself of ploughboy were commanded to take a volume, ... I mounted into the our prayer-books and mount ... window-seat, ... and having on a sack ... [in the garret. drawn the ... curtain nearly They go downstairs again]. close, I was shrined in ... retirement.... With ... [a book] "You forget you have a master in on my knee I was ... happy; ... me," says the tyrant [Hindley: but interruption ... came too Branwell Brontë]. soon. The ... door opened: "Boh!" cried the voice of John ... We made ourselves ... snug Reed [Branwell Brontë]. ... in the arch of the dresser. I had just fastened our "It is well I drew the curtain," pinafores together and hung them thought I, ... but Eliza ... up for a curtain, when in comes said: "She is in the Joseph.[19]... He tears down my window-seat, ... Jack handiwork [the curtain], boxes [Branwell]." my ears, and ... thrust [a book] upon us.... I took my ... volume ... and hurled it into the dog-kennel, vowing I hated a good book.