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her! Do you hear? Fling her into the kitchen! I’ll kill her,
Ellen Dean, if you let her come into my sight again!’
Hareton tried, under his breath, to persuade her to go.
’Drag her away!’ he cried, savagely. ‘Are you staying to

talk?’ And he approached to execute his own command.
’He’ll not obey you, wicked man, any more,’ said
Catherine; ‘and he’ll soon detest you as much as I do.’
’Wisht! wisht!’ muttered the young man, reproachfully;
‘I will not hear you speak so to him. Have done.’
’But you won’t let him strike me?’ she cried.
’Come, then,’ he whispered earnestly.
It was too late: Heathcliff had caught hold of her.
’Now, YOU go!’ he said to Earnshaw. ‘Accursed
witch! this time she has provoked me when I could not
bear it; and I’ll make her repent it for ever!’
He had his hand in her hair; Hareton attempted to
release her looks, entreating him not to hurt her that once.
Heathcliff’s black eyes flashed; he seemed ready to tear
Catherine in pieces, and I was just worked up to risk
coming to the rescue, when of a sudden his fingers
relaxed; he shifted his grasp from her head to her arm, and
gazed intently in her face. Then he drew his hand over his
eyes, stood a moment to collect himself apparently, and
turning anew to Catherine, said, with assumed calmness -

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