Wuthering Heights

Ellen: She calls him, and he follows her out to the moor. Lockwood: Oh, he's mad. He's like a madman. He seized me by the collar and dragged me out. You see, I had a dream. I thought I heard a voice calling. I reached out to close the shutter and something touched me, something cold and clinging like an icy hand. And then I saw her, a woman, but then my senses must have become disordered, because the falling snow shaped itself into what looked like a phantom... Ellen: It was Cathy. Lockwood: Who is Cathy? Ellen: A girl who died. Lockwood: [startled] Oh no, I don't believe in ghosts. I don't believe in phantoms sobbing through the night. Ellen: Poor Cathy. Lockwood: I don't believe that life comes back, once it's died, and calls again to the living. No, I don't. Ellen: Maybe if I told you a story, you'd change your mind about the dead coming back. Maybe you'd know, as I do, that there is a force that brings them back, if their hearts were wild enough in life.

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Young Cathy: You're so handsome when you smile...Don't you know that you're handsome? Do you know what I've always told Ellen? That you're a prince in disguise...I said your father was the Emperor of China. Your mother an Indian queen. And it's true Heathcliff. You were kidnapped by wicked sailors and brought to England. But I'm glad they did. Because I've always wanted to know somebody of noble birth. Young Heathcliff: All the princes I ever read about had castles. Young Cathy: Of course, they captured them. You must capture one too. [Cathy points up at Peniston Crag] There's a beautiful castle that lies waiting for your lance, Sir Prince. Young Heathcliff: You mean Peniston Crag? Young Cathy: Yes. Young Heathcliff: Aw, that's just a rock. Young Cathy: If you can't see that that's a castle, you'll never be a prince, Heathcliff. Here, take your lance and charge. [She hands him the riding whip] See that black knight waiting at the drawbridge - Challenge him! Now charge... [After a make-

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Cathy: It would be dreadful if Hindley ever found out. Heathcliff: Found out what? Can't you talk to me once in a while? Cathy: Shouldn't talk to you at all. Look at you. You get worse every day. Dirty, unkempt, and in rags. Why aren't you a man? Heathcliff, why don't you run away? Heathcliff: Run away? From you? Cathy: You could come back to me rich and take me away. Why aren't you my prince like we said long ago? Why can't you rescue me Heathcliff? Heathcliff: Cathy, come with me now. Cathy: Where? Heathcliff: Anywhere. Cathy: And live in haystacks and steal our food from the marketplaces? No Heathcliff, that's not what I want. Heathcliff: You just want to send me off. That won't do. I've stayed here and been beaten like a dog, abused and cursed and driven mad, but I stayed just to be near you, even as a dog. And I'll stay 'til the end. I'll live and I'll die under this rock.

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Cathy: Go on, Heathcliff. Run away. Bring me back the world. Heathcliff: I'm going. I'm going from here and from this cursed country both...But I'll be back in this house one day, Judge Linton, and I'll pay you out. I'll bring this house down in ruins about your heads. That's my curse on you. [He spits downward] On all of you.

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Cathy: Heathcliff. Is he here? Ellen: Oh yes, he came back one night last week with great talk of lying in a lake of fire without you. How he had to see you to live. He's unbearable. I wonder where he could be, the scoundrel. Heathcliff? Heathcliff? Heathcliff: Cathy! Cathy: Heathcliff! Heathcliff: Why did you stay so long in that house? Cathy: Didn't expect to find you here? Heathcliff: Why did you stay so long? Cathy: Why? Because I was having a wonderful time. A delightful, fascinating, wonderful time. Among human beings. Go and wash your face and hands Heathcliff. And comb your hair so that I needn't be ashamed of you in front of a guest. [Edgar walks into the room and stands next to Cathy] Ellen: Heathcliff! What are you doing in this part of the house? Go and look after Mr. Linton's horses. Heathcliff: Let him look after his own. Cathy: Heathcliff! [She is restrained by Edgar] Edgar: I've already done so. Cathy: Apologize to Mr. Linton at once. [Heathcliff walks out of the room w

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Edgar: I simply cannot understand how your brother can allow that beast of a gypsy to have the run of the house. Cathy: Don't talk about him. Edgar: Cathy, how can you, a gentle-woman, tolerate him under your roof? A roadside beggar giving himself airs of equality. How can you? Cathy: What do you know about Heathcliff? Edgar: All I need or want to know. Cathy: He was my friend long before you. Edgar: That blackguard! Cathy: Blackguard and all. He belongs under this roof and you speak well of him or get out. Edgar: Are you out of your senses? Cathy: Get out I said, or stop calling those I love names. Edgar: 'Those you love?' Cathy: Yes! Yes! Edgar: Cathy, what possesses you? Do you realize the things you're saying? Cathy: I see that I hate you. I hate the look of your milk-white face, I hate the touch of your soft, foolish hands. Edgar: Some of that gypsy's evil soul has gone into you I think. Cathy: Yes, it's true! Edgar: So that beggar's dirt is on you? Cathy: Yes, yes! Now get out!

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