While untying the knot round the hook, it seemed to me that I repeatedly caught the beat of horses' feet galloping at some distance; but there were such a number of things to occupy my reflections that I hardly gave the circumstance a thought: though it was a strange sound, in that place, at two o'clock in the morning.
Mr.Kenneth was fortunately just issuing from his house to see a patient in the village as I came up the street; and my account of Catherine Linton's malady induced him to accompany me back immediately.

He was a plain rough man; and he made no scruple to speak his doubts of her surviving this second attack; unless she were more submissive to his directions than she had shown herself before.
'Nelly Dean,' said he, 'I can't help fancying there's an extra cause for this.

What has there been to do at the Grange?
We've odd reports up here.

A stout, hearty lass like Catherine does not fall ill for a trifle; and that sort of people should not either.

It's hard work bringing them through fevers, and such things.