removal; Hareton seemed a thought bothered: though he was more taken up with staring at Catherine than thinking of Linton. But the master bid him get off to bed again: we didn’t want his help. He afterwards made Joseph remove the body to his chamber, and told me to return to mine, and Mrs. Heathcliff remained by herself.

‘In the morning, he sent me to tell her she must come down to breakfast: she had undressed, and appeared going to sleep, and said she was ill; at which I hardly wondered. I informed Mr. Heathcliff, and he replied, - “Well, let her be till after the funeral; and go up now and then to get her what is needful; and, as soon as she seems better, tell me.”‘

Cathy stayed upstairs a fortnight, according to Zillah; who visited her twice a day, and