other, but I'd ask pardon for provoking it.... I'm an angel!" (Later on in _Wuthering Heights_ Charlotte Brontë, temporarily neglecting her use of Method I., interchange of the sexes, in this connection, makes Heathcliffe say to Catherine:-- "Why did you betray your own heart, Cathy?... You loved me, then what _right_ had you to leave me?... Because misery and degradation and death and nothing that God or Satan could inflict would have parted us, _you_ of your own will did it."). The above parallel descriptions, it will be found, agree practically word for word. I will now give the substance side by side, and let the reader keep in mind Charlotte Brontë's Method I., interchange of the sexes of characters:-- _Wuthering Heights._ _Jane Eyre._ Catherine and Heathcliffe love Jane and Rochester love each each other, but Heathcliffe other, but Jane suddenly suddenly disappears. disappears. One evening Heathcliffe as One evening Jane as suddenly suddenly returns. The narrator returns. The narrator of the of the return of the runaway return of the runaway Jane tells Heathcliffe tells us that it is us that it is evening, and she evening, and she is outside the is outside the house, when in house, when in the dim light she the dim light she distinguishes distinguishes the figure of a the figure of a man, a stranger man, a stranger she has not seen she has not seen for some time. for some time. Dusk as it is, Dusk as it is, she recognizes she recognizes Heathcliffe. Rochester. In his countenance, however, In his countenance, however, there is "a transformation, ... there is "a change--that looked a half-civilized ferocity lurked desperate and brooding--that yet in his eyes full of black reminded ... of ... some fire, but was subdued." fettered wild beast ... dangerous to approach in his sullen woe." "What! you come back? Is it "Is it really you, Miss, come at really you?" cries the servant, this late hour?" cries the "raising her hands, uncertain servant, "starting as if she had whether to regard him as a seen a ghost," addressing the worldly visitor," addressing the runaway Jane. runaway Heathcliffe. "I want to have one word with "... Tell your master a person your mistress," says Heathcliffe wishes to see him," says Jane to to the servant. "Go and tell her the servant. some person ... desires to see her."