«So what will happen to Wuthering Heights?» I asked.
«Old Joseph will stay on there, and live in the kitchen, but the rest of the house will be shut up, and left to its ghosts.»
On my way back to Gimmerton, I walked through the churchyard, looking for three stones. They were easy to find, standing together in the corner of the graveyard, close to the edge of the moor. Cathy’s stone was half buried in plants and moss, and some plants were starting to creep over Edgar’s grave beside it. But Heathcliff’s stone, on the other side of Cathy’s, was still bare and new.
Some people say that they have seen the ghosts of Cathy and Heathcliff, wandering hand-in-hand over the moors. But I would like to think that they are now at peace. I stayed by their graves for a long while on that beautiful summer’s evening, watching the butterflies flutter though the heather and listening to the wind breathe softly through the grass. And I imagined the sleepers resting peacefully at last, silent and still under that quiet earth.
Vocabulary
absorbed
affection
agitated
amuse
argument
ash tree
ясеньassuming
astonishment
banisters
bare
beggar
bend
bewildered
billow
blacksmith
blazing
bonnet
bound
brat
bruise
brutally
brute
bunch
bundled up
свернутыйbury
call at
заходить, останавливаться (где-либо)came around
canister
carving knife
разделочный ножcellar
chatter
cheat
check
chime
choke
chop up
мелко нарезать (clasp
claws
clench
clutch
colt
comfort
complaint
condescendingly
convince
convinced
cope
cram
creep
creep over
незаметно переползтиcrimson
cross
crush
dare
deep-set
defiantly
degrade
deliberate
delirious
deserve
desolate
desperate
despise
devour
dew
disarrange
disgrace
dishcloth
dismal
disobey
distracted
dive
dodge away
увернуться, увильнутьdoomed
doorlatch
doze
doze off
задрематьdrag
draw in one’s breath
задержать дыханиеdreary
drew back
drive away
гнать от себяdrop off
отходить ко сну, заснутьdrowsily
drunkenness
dunce
edge
embarrassed
envy
exasperating
exhaustion
expect
faint
fasten
feeble
feverish
fiend
fierce
filthy
fit
flatten
flinch
fling
fling down
бросить на землюflowerpot
flustered
flutter
fondle
force
fragile
frantic
fright