‘We don’t

generally take to

foreigners here,

Mr. Lockwood,

unless they take

to us first’

Nelly Dean

‘asking how he

could fashion to

bring that

gipsy brat into

the house’

Nelly Dean

Heathcliff is ‘an

unreclaimed

creature, without

refinement,

without

cultivation’

Heathcliff ‘an

arid

wilderness of

furze and

whinstone.’

‘Mrs Earnshaw

was ready to

fling it out of

doors’

Catherine Catherine Nelly Dean

Nelly Dean Nelly Dean Heathcliff Heathcliff Isabella

Like ‘exchanging

a bleak, hilly, coal

country for a

beautiful fertile

valley’

‘supposing himself

unseen, the

scoundrel had the

impudence to

embrace her’

Isabella &

Edgar ‘The

cowardly

children crept

closer also’

‘Isabella lisping –

“Frightful thing!

Put him in the

cellar papa.”’

‘He’s exactly like

the son of the

fortune-teller

that stole my

tame pheasant.

Isn’t he, Edgar?’

‘“Judas! Traitor!” I

ejaculated. “You

are a hypocrite,

too, are you?”’

Nelly Dean Nelly Dean Nelly Dean Hindley Heathcliff

‘a half-civilised

ferocity lurked

yet in the

depressed

brows’

‘his manner was

even dignified:

quite divested

of roughness’

‘Take my colt,

Gipsy, then!’

‘I know you

have treated

me infernally –

infernally! Do

you hear?’

Linton Heathcliff

‘And perhaps

you will

consent – and

he’ll let me die

with you!’

Heathcliff Lockwood Lockwood Hindley

‘picturing in

me a hero of

romance’

‘descriptive of the

atmospheric

tumult to which

its station is

exposed in stormy

weather.’

‘ “Wuthering”

being a

significant

adjective’

‘only

afterwards

show him what

you are, imp of

Satan.’

‘Wheedle

my father

out of all he

has:’

‘I pray that he

may break your

neck: take him,

and he damned,

you beggarly

interloper!’

‘dark-skinned

gypsy in aspect,

in address and

manners a

gentleman’

‘an erect and

handsome

figure; and

rather morose’

‘I know, by

instinct, his

reserve springs

from an aversion

to showy displays

of feeling’

Hindley Hindley Lockwood Lockwood Lockwood

Lockwood Lockwood Heathcliff Heathcliff Nelly Dean

‘He’ll love and

hate equally

under cover’

‘I bestow my

own attributes

over liberally

on him’

‘“ Come in! Come

in!” he sobbed.

“Cathy, do come.

Oh, do – once

more!”’

‘My heart’s

darling!’

‘The greatest

punishment we

could invent for

her was to keep

her separate

from him’

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