"It would degrade me to marry "I feel akin to him.... I have
Heathcliffe now; so he shall something in my brain and heart
never know how I love him; and that assimilates me mentally to
that not because he's handsome, him.... I know I must conceal my
... but because he's more myself sentiments.... Yet, while I
than I am. Whatever our souls breathe and think, I must love
are made of, his and mine are him."[53]
the same."[53]
However, Heathcliffe and However, Rochester and Jane
Catherine part, Heathcliffe part, Jane running away
running away unexpectedly. unexpectedly.
(Method I., interchange of
the sexes of characters.)
Catherine dreams she is in Jane finds refuge with the
heaven, but broke her heart to Rivers family (the Brontë family
come to earth again, upon which at Haworth). She is tempted to
the angels flung her out near take to a religious
Heathcliffe's abode, where she life:--"Angels beckoned, and
awoke sobbing for joy: Catherine Heaven rolled together like a
preferred her lover to scroll," but she heard
heaven.[54] Rochester's voice calling,
though he was miles away. Jane
preferred her lover to
heaven.[54]
The two parted lovers, however, The two parted lovers, however,
meet again, and by Charlotte meet again, and by Charlotte
Brontë's Method I., (interchange Brontë's Method I., (interchange
of the sexes of characters of the sexes of characters
portrayed), we arrive at another portrayed), we arrive at another
of my sensational and important of my sensational and important
Brontë discoveries. Brontë discoveries.
THE RETURN OF THE RUNAWAY LOVER THE RETURN OF THE RUNAWAY LOVER
HEATHCLIFFE TO CATHERINE.[55] JANE TO ROCHESTER.[55]
_Wuthering Heights._ _Jane Eyre._
Chapter X. Chapter XXXVII.
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