WH Quotes - Social Class Flashcards
[Heathcliff’s description of Thrushcross Grange] “both of us were able to look in by standing on the basement, and clinging to the ledge, and we saw - ah! it was beautiful - a splendid place carpeted with crimson, and crimson-covered chairs and tables, and a pure white ceiling bordered by gold, a shower of glass-drops hanging in silver chains from the centre, and shimmering with little soft tapers.”
Chapter 6, Page 33, middle
[Heathcliff] “The curtains were still looped up at one corner, and I resumed my station as spy; because, if Catherine had wished to return, I intended shattering their great glass panes to a million of fragments, unless they let her out.”
Chapter 6, Page 35, middle
[Nelly describing the return of Cathy from Thrushcross Grange] “instead of a wild, hatless little savage jumping into the house, and rushing to squeeze us all breathless, there ‘lighted from a handsome black pony a very dignified person, with brown ringlets falling from the cover of a feathered beaver, and a long cloth habit, which she was obliged to hold up with both hands hat she might sail in.”
Chapter 7, Page 36, middle
“I removed the habit, and there shone forth beneath a grand plaid silk frock, white trousers, and burnished shoes; and, while her eyes sparkled joyfully when the dogs came bounding up to welcome her, she dared hardly touch them lest they should fawn upon her splendid garments.”
Chapter 7, Page 36, 3/4 down
“Mr and Mrs Earnshaw watched anxiously their meeting; thinking it would enable them to judge, in some measure, what grounds they had for hoping to succeed in separating the two friends.”
Chapter 7, Page 36, bottom
[Cathy] “She gazed concernedly at the dusky fingers she held in her own, and also at her dress; which she feared had gained no embellishment from its contact with his.”
Chapter 7, Page 37, 3/4 down
“Mrs Linton, shoved him back with a sudden thrust, and angrily bade Joseph ‘keep the fellow out of the room - send him into the garret till dinner is over. He’ll be cramming his fingers in the tarts and stealing the fruit, if left alone with them for a minute.”
Chapter 7, Page 40, near bottom
[Heathcliff] “‘Why have you that silk Fock on, then?’ he said. ‘Nobody coming here, I hope?’”
Chapter 8, Page 48, 2/3rds down
[Nelly’s advice to Cathy about a marriage to Edgar] “you will escape from a disorderly, comfortless home into a wealthy, respectable one”
Chapter 9, Page 56, 3/4 down
[Cathy describing Edgar and Isabella] “But they are very much alike: they are spoiled children, and fancy the world was made for their accommodation; and though I humour both, I think a smart chastisement might improve them all the same”
Chapter 10, Page 71, top
[Description of Hareton] “Good things lost amid a wilderness of weeds, to be sure, whose rankness far over-topped their neglected growth; yet, notwithstanding, evidence of a wealthy soil, that might yield luxuriant crops under other and favourable circumstances”
Chapter 18, Page 143, 1/4 down
[Catherine] “‘Papa is gone to fetch my cousin from London: my cousin is a gentleman’s son. That my–’ she stopped, and wept outright; upset at the bare notion of relationship with such a clown”
Chapter 18, Page 142, middle
[about Hareton] “‘I’ve tied his tongue’ observed Heathcliff”
Chapter 21, Page 159, 1/3rd down
[Heathcliff talking about Hareton] “And he’ll never be able to emerge from his bathos or coarseness and ignorance. I’ve got him faster than his scoundrel of a father secured me”
Chapter 21, Page 159, middle
