"'It is not eight o'clock!' she answered, rising unwillingly, 'Hareton, I'll leave this book upon the chimney-piece, and I'll bring some more to-morrow.'
"'Ony books ut yah leave, Aw suall tak' intuh th' hahse,' said Joseph, 'un' it 'ull be mitch if yah find 'em agean; soa, yah muh plase yourseln!'
"Cathy threatened that his library should pay for hers; and, smiling as she passed Hareton, went singing up stairs, lighter of heart, I venture to say, than ever she had been under that roof before; except, perhaps, during her earliest visits to Linton.
"The intimacy, thus commenced, grew rapidly; though it encountered temporary interruptions, Earnshaw was not to be civilized with a wish; and my young lady was no philosopher, and no paragon of patience; but both their minds tending to the same point—one loving and desiring to esteem; and the other loving and desiring to be esteemed—they contrived in the end, to reach it.
