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我坚持要把丧礼办得体面点。希刺克厉夫先生说在这方面可以由我作主，只是，他要我记住办这场丧事的钱是从他口袋里掏出来的。他保持一种严酷的、漠不关心的态度，既无欢乐的表示，也没有悲哀的神色，如果有什么的话，那只有在顺利完成一件艰难工作时，所具有的感到一种满足的冷酷表情。的确，我有一次看见在他的神色里有着近乎狂喜的样子：那正是在人们把灵柩抬出屋子的时候。他还有那份虚伪去装个吊丧者：在跟着哈里顿出去之前，他把这不幸的孩子举起来放在桌上，带着特别的兴趣咕噜着，“现在，我的好孩子，你是我的了！我们要看看用同样的风吹扭它，这棵树会不会像另外一棵树长得那样弯曲！”那个天真无邪的东西挺喜欢这段话：他玩着希刺克厉夫的胡子，抚摩着他的脸，可是我猜出这话的意思，便尖刻地说，“那孩子一定得跟我回画眉田庄去，先生。在这世界上，这孩子和你丝毫不相干。” 'Does Linton say so?' he demanded. “林惇是这么说的吗？”他质问。 'Of course - he has ordered me to take him,' I replied. “当然--他叫我来领他的。”我回答。 'Well,' said the scoundrel, 'we'll not argue the subject now: but I have a fancy to try my hand at rearing a young one; so intimate to your master that I must supply the place of this with my own, if he attempt to remove it. I don't engage to let Hareton go undisputed; but I'll be pretty sure to make the other come! Remember to tell him.' “好吧，”这个恶棍说，“现在我们不要争辩这件事吧，可是我很想自己带个小孩子；所以通知你主人说，如果他打算带走他，我就得要我自己的孩子补这个缺。我才不会一声不吭地让哈里顿走，可我是一定要那一个回来！记住告诉他吧。” This hint was enough to bind our hands. I repeated its substance on my return; and Edgar Linton, little interested at the commencement, spoke no more of interfering. I'm not aware that he could have done it to any purpose, had he been ever so willing. 这个暗示已够使我束手无策了。我回去后，把这话的内容重说了一遍，埃德加·林惇本来就没多大兴趣，就从此不再提及要去干涉了”。就算他有意，我想他也不会成功。 
客人如今是呼啸山庄的主人了，他掌握不可动摇的所有权，而且向律师证明--律师又转过来向林惇先生证明--恩萧已经抵押了他所有的每一码土地，换成现款，满足了他的赌博狂；而他，希刺克厉夫，是承受抵押的人。于是，哈里顿原该是附近一带的第一流绅士，却落到完全靠他父亲的多年仇人来养活的地步。他在他自己的家里倒像个仆人一样，还被剥夺了领取工钱的权利；他是翻不了身了，这是由于他的无亲无故，而且自己还根本不知道他在受人欺侮了。 THE twelve years, continued Mrs. Dean, following that dismal period were the happiest of my life: my greatest troubles in their passage rose from our little lady's trifling illnesses, which she had to experience in common with all children, rich and poor. For the rest, after the first six months, she grew like a larch, and could walk and talk too, in her own way, before the heath blossomed a second time over Mrs. Linton's dust. She was the most winning thing that ever brought sunshine into a desolate house: a real beauty in face, with the Earnshaws' handsome dark eyes, but the Lintons' fair skin and small features, and yellow curling hair. Her spirit was high, though not rough, and qualified by a heart sensitive and lively to excess in its affections. That capacity for intense attachments reminded me of her mother: still she did not resemble her: for she could be soft and mild as a dove, and she had a gentle voice and pensive expression: her anger was never furious; her love never fierce: it was deep and tender. However, it must be acknowledged, she had faults to foil her gifts. A propensity to be saucy was one; and a perverse will, that indulged children invariably acquire, whether they be good tempered or cross. If a servant chanced to vex her, it was always - 'I shall tell papa!' And if he reproved her, even by a look, you would have thought it a heart-breaking business: I don't believe he ever did speak a harsh word to her. He took her education entirely on himself, and made it an amusement. Fortunately, curiosity and a quick intellect made her an apt scholar: she learned rapidly and eagerly, and did honour to his teaching. 那悲惨时期以后的十二年是我一生中最快乐的时期，丁太太接着说下去。在那些年里我最大的烦恼也只是我们小姐生些无所谓的小毛病，这是她和所有的孩子，无论贫富，都得经历的。其余的时候呢，她在落地六个月之后，就像一棵落叶松似的长大起来，而且在林惇夫人墓上的野草第二次开花以前，她就以她自己的方式走路和说话了。她是把阳光带到一所凄凉的房子里的最讨人喜欢的小东西--脸是真正的美，有着恩萧家的漂亮的黑眼睛，却又有林惇家的细白皮肤、秀气的相貌和黄色的鬈发。她的兴致总是很高，可并不粗鲁，配上一颗在感情上过度敏感和活跃的心。那种对人极亲热的态度使我想起了她的母亲；可是她并不像她；因为她能像鸽子一样的温顺驯良，而且她有柔和的声音和深思的表情。她的愤怒从来不是狂暴的；她的爱也从来不是炽烈的，而是深沉、温柔的。可是必须承认她也有缺点来衬托她的优点。莽撞的性子是一个；还有倔强的意志，这是被娇惯的孩子们一定有的，不论他们脾气好坏。要是一个仆人碰巧惹她生气了，她总是说，“我要告诉爸爸！”要是他责备了她，就是瞅她一下吧，你会以为那是件令人的心碎的事哩：我不相信谁会对她粗声粗气。他完全由自己来教育她，以此作为一种乐事。幸亏好奇心和聪慧使她成为一个好学生，她学得又快又热心，这也给他的教学添了光彩。 Till she reached the age of thirteen she had not once been beyond the range of the park by herself. Mr. Linton would take her with him a mile or so outside, on rare occasions; but he trusted her to no one else. Gimmerton was an unsubstantial name in her ears; the chapel, the only building she had approached or entered, except her own home. Wuthering Heights and Mr. Heathcliff did not exist for her: she was a perfect recluse; and, apparently, perfectly contented. Sometimes, indeed, while surveying the country from her nursery window, she would observe - 她长到十三岁，也没有独自出过庄园一次。林惇先生偶尔也会带她到外面走一哩来路；可是他不把她交给别人。在她耳中吉默吞是一个虚幻的名字；除了她自己的家之外，礼拜堂是她走近或进去过的唯一建筑物。呼啸山庄和希刺克厉夫先生对她来说，是不存在的；她是一个道地的隐居者；而且，她显然也已很知足了。有时候从她的育儿室的窗子向外眺望乡间时，的确，她也会注意的： 'Ellen, how long will it be before I can walk to the top of those hills? I wonder what lies on the other side - is it the sea?' “艾伦，我还要多久才能走到那些山顶上去呢？不知道山那边是什么--是海吗？” 'No, Miss Cathy,' I would answer; 'it is hills again, just like these.' “不，凯蒂小姐，”我就回答说，“那还是山，就跟这些一样。” 
“当你站在那些金色的石头底下的时候，它们是什么样的呢，”有一次她问。 The abrupt descent of Penistone Crags particularly attracted her notice; especially when the setting sun shone on it and the topmost heights, and the whole extent of landscape besides lay in shadow. I explained that they were bare masses of stone, with hardly enough earth in their clefts to nourish a stunted tree. 盘尼斯吞岩的陡坡特别引起了她的注意；尤其是当落日照在岩石上和最高峰，而其余的整个风景都藏在阴影中的时候。我就解释说那些只是一大堆石头，石头缝里的土都不够养活一棵矮树的。 'And why are they bright so long after it is evening here?' she pursued. “为什么在这儿黄昏过后很久，那些石头还挺亮呢？”她追问着。 'Because they are a great deal higher up than we are,' replied I; 'you could not climb them, they are too high and steep. In winter the frost is always there before it comes to us; and deep into summer I have found snow under that black hollow on the north-east side!' “因为它们那里比我们这儿高多了，”我回答，“你不能往那儿爬上去，那儿太高太陡了。在冬天那儿总是比我们这里先下霜；盛夏时，在东北面那个黑洞里我还发现过雪哩！” 'Oh, you have been on them!' she cried gleefully. 'Then I can go, too, when I am a woman. Has papa been, Ellen?' “啊，你已经去过啦！”她高兴得叫起来。“那么等我成了大人的时候我也可以去啦。艾伦，爸爸去过没有？” 
“爸爸会告诉你，小姐，”我急忙回答，“说那地方是不值得跑去玩的。你和他溜达的那片旷野要比那儿好得多，而且画眉园林是世界上最好的地方。” 'But I know the park, and I don't know those,' she murmured to herself. 'And I should delight to look round me from the brow of that tallest point: my little pony Minny shall take me some time.' “画眉园林我知道，可那些地方我还不知道哩，”她自言自语地说，“我要是从那个最高峰的边上向四周望望，我一定会很高兴的--我的小马敏妮总会有一天带我去的。” One of the maids mentioning the Fairy Cave, quite turned her head with a desire to fulfil this project: she teased Mr. Linton about it; and he promised she should have the journey when she got older. But Miss Catherine measured her age by months, and, 'Now, am I old enough to go to Penistone Crags?' was the constant question in her mouth. The road thither wound close by Wuthering Heights. Edgar had not the heart to pass it; so she received as constantly the answer, 'Not yet, love: not yet.' 有个女仆提起了仙人洞，这大大地打动了她的心，就想实现这个打算，她硬要林惇先生答应这件事，他答应她稍微长大点时可以去一趟。而凯瑟琳小姐是用月份来计算她的年龄的，“现在，我去盘尼斯吞岩够不够大啦？”这是常挂在她嘴边的问话。到那边的路曲折蜿蜒，紧靠呼啸山庄。埃德加不想经过那里，所以她常常得到的这个回答是，“还不行，宝贝儿，还不行。”
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