"'Will you go to the devil!' he exclaimed, ferociously, 'and let me be!'
"'No,' she persisted, 'I wont—I can't tell what to do to make you talk to me, and you are determined not to understand. When I call you stupid, I don't mean anything—I don't mean that I despise you. Come you shall take notice of me, Hareton—you are my cousin, and you shall own me.'
"'I shall have naught to do wi' you, and your mucky pride, and your damned, mocking tricks!' he answered. 'I'll go to hell, body and soul, before I look sideways after you again! side out of t' gait, now; this minute!'
"Catherine frowned, and retreated to the window-seat, chewing her lip, and endeavouring, by humming an eccentric tune, to conceal a growing tendency to sob.
"'You should be friends with your cousin, Mr. Hareton,' I interrupted, 'since she repents of her sauciness! it would do you a great deal
