He'll love and hate equally under cover, and esteem it a species of impertinence to loved or hated again.

Cathy, this lamb of yours threatens like a bull!' he said. 'It is in danger of splitting its skull against my knuckles. By God! Mr. Linton, I'm mortally sorry that you are not worth knocking down!

Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.

Alas, for the effects of bad tea and bad temper!

Your presence is a moral poison that would contaminate the most virtuous

The clock strikes off the hollow half-hours of all the life that is left to you, one by one.

Joseph is the wearisomest and self-righteous Pharisee who ever ransacked the Bible to rake the promises to himself and fling the curses on his neighbor.