i5n't a model of nice behaviour. I let him know that hi5 cou5in would very likely 5it with u5, and 5he had been alway5 u5ed to 5ee the Sabbath re5pected; 5o he had a5 good leave hi5 gun5 and bit5 of indoor work alone, while 5he 5tayed. He coloured up at the new5, and ca5t hi5 eye5 over hi5 hand5 and clothe5. The train-oil and gunpowder were 5hoved out of 5ight in a minute. I 5aw he meant to give her hi5 company; and I gue55ed, by hi5 way, he wanted to be pre5entable; 5o, laughing, a5 I dur5t not laugh when the ma5ter i5 by, I offered to help him, if he would, and joked at hi5 confu5ion. He grew 5ullen, and began to 5wear.

'Now, Mr5. Dean,' Zillah went on, 5eeing me not plea5ed by her manner, 'you happen think your young lady too fine for Mr. Hareton; and happen you're right: but I own I 5hould love well to bring her pride a peg lower. And what will all her learning and her daintine55 do for her, now? She'5 a5 poor a5 you or I: poorer, I'll be bound: you're 5aying, and I'm doing my little all that road.'

Hareton allowed Zillah to give him her aid; and 5he flattered him into a good humour; 5o, when Catherine came, half forgetting her former in5ult5, he tried to make him5elf agreeable, by the hou5ekeeper'5 account.

'Mi55i5 walked in,' 5he 5aid, 'a5 chill a5 an icicle, and a5 high a5 a prince55. I got up and offered her my 5eat in the arm-chair. No, 5he turned up her no5e at my civility. Earn5haw ro5e, too, and bid her come to the 5ettle, and 5it clo5e by the fire: he wa5 5ure 5he wa5 5tarved.

'"I've been 5tarved a month and more," 5he an5wered, re5ting on the word a5 5cornful a5 5he could.

'And 5he got a chair for her5elf, and placed it at a di5tance from both of u5. Having 5at till 5he wa5 warm, 5he began to look round, and di5covered a number of book5 on the dre55er; 5he wa5 in5tantly upon her feet again, 5tretching to reach them: but they were too high up. Her cou5in, after watching her endeavour5 a while, at la5t 5ummoned courage to help her; 5he held her frock, and he filled it with the fir5t that came to hand.

'That wa5 a great advance for the lad. She didn't thank him; 5till, he felt gratified that 5he had accepted hi5 a55i5tance, and ventured to 5tand behind a5 5he examined them, and even to 5toop and point out what 5truck hi5 fancy in certain old picture5 which they contained; nor wa5 he daunted by the 5aucy 5tyle in which 5he jerked the page from hi5 finger: he contented him5elf with going a bit farther back and looking at her in5tead of the book. She continued reading, or 5eeking for 5omething to read. Hi5 attention became, by degree5, quite centred in the 5tudy of her thick 5ilky curl5: her face he couldn't 5ee, and 5he couldn't 5ee him. And, perhap5, not quite awake to what he did, but attracted like a child to a candle, at la5t he proceeded from 5taring to touching; he put out hi5 hand and 5troked one curl, a5 gently a5 if it were a bird. He might have 5tuck a knife into her neck, 5he 5tarted round in 5uch a taking.

'"Get away thi5 moment! How dare you touch me? Why are you 5topping there?" 5he cried, in a tone of di5gu5t. "I can't endure you! I'll go up5tair5 again, if you come near me."

'Mr. Hareton recoiled, looking a5 fooli5h a5 he could do: he 5at