`What
cheap uggs
online business, sir?' said Nelly, conducting me into the house.
`He's gone out at present, and won't return soon.'
`About the rent,'
I answered.
`Oh! then it is with Mrs Heathcliff you must settle,' she
observed; `or rather with me. She has not learnt to manage her affairs yet, and
I act for her: there's nobody else.'
I looked surprised.
`Ah! you have not heard of Heathcliff's death, I see,' she continued.
`Heathcliff dead!' I exclaimed, astonished. `How long ago?'
`Three
months since: but sit down and let me take your hat, and
ugg boots discount
outlet I'll tell you all about it. Stop, you have had nothing to
eat, have you?'
`I want nothing: I have ordered supper at home. You
sit down too. I never dreamt of his dying! Let me hear how it came to pass. You
say you don't expect them back for some time--the young people?'
`No--I have to scold them every evening for their late rambles: but they don't
care for me. At least have a drink of our old ale; it will do you good: you seem
weary.'
She hastened to fetch it before I could
cheap uggs
online refuse, and I heard Joseph asking whether `it warn't a
crying scandal that she should have fellies at her time of life? And then, to
get them jocks out uh' t' maister's cellar! He fair shaamed to `bide still and
see it.'
She did not stay to retaliate, but re-entered in a minute,
bearing a reaming silver pint, whose contents I lauded with becoming
earnestness. And afterwards she furnished me with the sequel of HeathclifFs
history. He had a `queer' end, as she expressed it.
I was summoned to
Wuthering Heights, within a fortnight of your leaving us, she
uggs
discount said; and I obeyed joyfully, for Catherine's sake. My
first interview with her grieved and shocked me: she had altered so much since
our separation. Mr Heathcliff did not explain his reasons for taking a new mind
about my coming here; he only told me he wanted me, and he was tired of seeing
Catherine: I must make the little parlour my sitting-room, and keep her with me.
It was enough if he were obliged to see her once or twice a day. She seemed
pleased at this arrangement; and, by degrees, I smuggled over a great number of
books, and other articles, that had
discount
uggs for women formed her amusement at the Grange; and flattered
myself we should get on in tolerable comfort. The delusion did not last long.
Catherine, contented at first, in a brief space grew irritable and restless. For
one thing, she was forbidden to move out of the garden, and it fretted her sadly
to be confined to its narrow bounds as spring drew on; for another, in following
the house, I was forced to quit her frequently, and she complained of
loneliness: she preferred quarrelling with Joseph in the kitchen to sitting at
peace in her solitude. I did not mind their skirmishes: but Hareton was
often
ugg boots on sale obliged to
seek the kitchen also, when the master wanted to have the house to himself; and
though in the beginning she either left it at his approach, or quietly joined in
my occupations, and shunned remarking or addressing him--and though he was
always as sullen and silent as possible--after a while she changed her
behaviour, and became incapable of letting him alone: talking at him; commenting
on his stupidity and idleness; expressing her wonder how he could endure the
life he lived--how he could sit a whole evening staring into the fire and
dozing.