content with the cushion, Master Heathcliff! Miss has wasted too much time on you, already; we cannot remain five minutes longer."
"Yes, yes, we can!" replied Cathy. "He's good and patient, now—He's beginning to think I shall have far greater misery than he will, to-night, if I believe he is the worse for my visit; and then, I dare not come again—Tell the truth about it, Linton—for I mutsn't come, if I have hurt you."
"You must come, to cure me," he answered. "You ought to come because you have hurt me—You know you have, extremely! I was not as ill, when you entered, as I am at present—was I?"
"But you've made yourself ill by crying, and being in a passion."
"I didn't do it all," said his cousin. "However, we'll be friends now. And you want me—you would wish to see me sometimes, really?"
"I told you, I did!" he replied impatiently.
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