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Wuthering Heights

CHAPTER I
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Take a glass of wine ?' 'No, thank you.' 'Not bitten, are you ?' 'If I had been, I would have set my signet on the biter.' Heathcliff's countenance relaxed into a grin.
'Come, come,' he said, 'you are flurried, Mr.Lockwood.

Here, take a little wine.

Guests are so exceedingly rare in this house that I and my dogs, I am willing to own, hardly know how to receive them.

Your health, sir ?' I bowed and returned the pledge; beginning to perceive that it would be foolish to sit sulking for the misbehaviour of a pack of curs; besides, I felt loth to yield the fellow further amusement at my expense; since his humour took that turn.

He--probably swayed by prudential consideration of the folly of offending a good tenant--relaxed a little in the laconic style of chipping off his pronouns and auxiliary verbs, and introduced what he supposed would be a subject of interest to me,--a discourse on the advantages and disadvantages of my present place of retirement.


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