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呼啸山庄 Wuthering Heights 31

BOOK THREE: THE SECOND CATHERINE

 
CHAPTER FIFTEEN

A Closed Door

Edgar spoke to Ellen a few days later. He looked sick and worried. "Ellen," he said, "I wish Linton would write or visit. Tell me, what do you think of him?"

"Well, sir, he is very much like Isabella, but he is not much like his father in any way that I can see."

Edgar sighed and walked to the window. "What can I do for Cathy?" he asked. "It seems that she loves her cousin Linton. You know that when I die, Linton will get Thrushcross Grange, since he is the only member of my family left. Cathy will have her own money, but who will take care of my daughter? What will I do?"

"I don't know, sir," Ellen replied, "I don't know what will happen."

Spring passed, and the warmer weather came, but Edgar was still sick. He wrote again to Linton and asked him to visit. He received an answer from Linton that said that Heathcliff would not let him visit Thrushcross Grange. “Uncle, please let Cathy come here," he wrote. “I really want to see her again."

Even though he felt sorry for Linton, Edgar could not agree to this,  because he was too sick to go with Cathy to the Heights.

Finally Cathy convinced her father to let her go out with Ellen and meet Linton on the moors. Ellen did not want to go. She had a feeling that something bad was going to happen.

It was summer when they went. They left Edgar sick in bed, and rode off through the beautiful summer day.

Cathy's face was like the land around her, with shadows and sunshine moving over it quickly. They saw Linton less than a mile from Wuthering Heights, lying on the grass. He moved so slowly, and looked so pale, that Ellen said, "Master Linton, how sick you look! You shouldn't be outside!”