Joseph remained to hector over tenants and labourers; and because it was his vocation to be where he had plenty of wickedness to reprove.
The master's bad ways and bad companions formed a pretty example for Catherine and Heathcliff.

His treatment of the latter was enough to make a fiend of a saint.

And, truly, it appeared as if the lad _were_ possessed of something diabolical at that period.

He delighted to witness Hindley degrading himself past redemption; and became daily more notable for savage sullenness and ferocity.

I could not half tell what an infernal house we had.