Heathcliff's Tale (2013)
“Why had this violent, angry man stopped here?—for I saw no sign of an identical hand in any of the pages lately thrust into my grasp—what, if not his own death, could have prevented Heathcliff from going on? Had Hindley Earnshaw, a figure I now hated with all the ferocity of one who is a convert to a new faith, one in which the enemy must at all costs be eradicated from the world, found the man who dreamt of ousting him, and killed his old foe and foster-brother? If Heathcliff was indeed dead, ...what had been the outcome of his last message, in which he had sworn revenge on all the denizens of Thrushcross Grange? Had he succeeded in his dreadful and bloodthirsty aim: did Heathcliff writhe now in the eternal flames of Hell?
I must confess to a hope that the drunken, bullying Hindley was no longer of this world—though to imagine the two fighting in a hideous perpetuity was almost too awful to contemplate. And I must own, also, to a desire in which it is impossible to take pride: that of learning the fate of Cathy, wife of Edgar Linton, love for all time of my hero and leader, Heathcliff.MoreLess
I must confess to a hope that the drunken, bullying Hindley was no longer of this world—though to imagine the two fighting in a hideous perpetuity was almost too awful to contemplate. And I must own, also, to a desire in which it is impossible to take pride: that of learning the fate of Cathy, wife of Edgar Linton, love for all time of my hero and leader, Heathcliff.MoreLess
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