WH: Power Flashcards
Nelly
The boy would do her bidding in anything
C5, P29
I wish I could hold you
He attempted to rise, but she seized his hair, and kept him down. “I wish I could hold you” she continued, bitterly “‘till we’re were both dead!”
C15, P115
Hareton to Catherine
Hareton: “I’ll see thee damned before I be thy servant!” growled the lad
C18, P142
Heathcliff about Hareton
“I’ve tied his tongue” observed Heathcliff
C21, P159
Heathcliff, about Hareton
And he’ll never be able to emerge from his bathos of coarseness and ignorance. I’ve got him faster than his scoundrel of a father secured me
C21, P159
Catherine getting frustrated with Hareton
Catherine: “That for the third time, you dunce! I’m not going to tell you again. Recollect, or I’ll pull your hair!”
C32, 223
Violent exertions
Heathcliff: “An absurd termination of my violent exertions? I get levers and mattocks to demolish the two houses, and train myself to be capable of working like Hercules, and when everything is ready and in my power, I find the will to lift a slate off either roof has vanished! My old enemies have not beaten me; now would be the precise time to revenge myself on their representatives: I could do it; and none could hinder me. But where is the use?”
C33, P234