Heathcliff, Chapters 1-9

Heathcliff, Chapters 1-9

1. Chapter 1

   • "A capital fellow!" - Lockwood
   • "Black eyes withdraw so suspiciously under their brows"
   • "His fingers sheltered themselves, with jealous resolution, still further in his waistcoat"
   • "Closed teeth"
   • "Exaggeratedly reserved"
   • "A dark-skinned gypsy in aspect, in dress and manners a gentleman"
   • "Erect and handsome figure"

2. Chapter 2

   • "I no longer felt inclined to call Heathcliff a capital fellow"
   • "Stern voice"
   • "A stranger is a stranger, be he rich or poor: it will not suit me to permit anyone the range of the place while I am off guard!"
   • "Unmannerly wretch"
   • "His accidental merriment expiring quickly in his habitual moroseness"

3. Chapter 3

   • "Poor Heathcliff" - Catherine
   • "Vagabond" - Hindley
   • Hindley will "reduce him to his right place"
   • "His face as white as the wall behind him"
   • "His agitation was so extreme"
   • "Thundered"
   • "Savage vehemence"
   • "An excess of violent emotion"
   • "He struck his forehead with rage"
   • "Uncontrollable passion of tears"

4. Chapter 4

   • "Alone in the world"
   • "Rough as a saw-edge, and hard as a whinstone!"
   • "It's a cuckoo's, sir"
   • "Where he was born, and who were his parents, and how he got his money" - What Nelly doesn't know
   • "It's as dark almost as if it came from the devil"
   • "Dirty, ragged, black-haired child"
   • "Gibberish"
   • "Gipsy brat"
   • "Name of a son who died"
   • "Sullen, patient child"
   • "Poor, fatherless child" - Mr. Earnshaw
     • "Lamb"
   • "Imp of Satan"

5. Chapter 5

   • "Pride and black tempers"
   • "The boy would do her bidding in anything"
   • "Lying on the floor with his head in her lap"
   • "The little souls were comforting each other"

6. Chapter 6

   • "Promised fair to grow up rude as savages"
   • "I'd not exchange, not for a thousand lives, my condition here, for Edgar Linton's at Thrushcross Grange"
   • "Villain"
   • "Frightful thing" - Isabella
   • "A little Lascar, or an American or Spanish castaway"
   • "A wicked boy"
   • "Unfit for a decent house"

7. Chapter 7

   • "How very black and cross you look!"
   • "Shame and pride threw double gloom over his countenance"
   • "I shall not stand to be laughed at"
   • "I like to be dirty, and I will be dirty"
   • "Naughty swearing boy"
   • "Having screwed up his courage"
     • "Make me decent"
   • "Proud heart"
   • "You are taller and twice as broad" than Linton
   • Eyebrows like "devil's spies"
   • "Vicious cur"
   • "Hates all the world"
   • "Fit for a prince in disguise"
   • "Vagabond"
   • "It's like a colt's mane over his eyes!"

8. Chapter 8

   • "Delighted to witness Hindley degrading himself"
   • "Possessed of something diabolical"
   • "Vulgar young ruffian"
   • "Worse than a brute"
   • "Personal appearance sympathised with mental deterioration"
   • "Slouching gait"
   • "Ignoble look"
   • "Unsociable moroseness"
   • "Bleak hilly coal country"

9. Chapter 9

   • "Natural impulse"
   • "Smashing Hareton's skull on the steps"
   • "Steal out noiselessly"