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洛克伍德先生造访呼啸山庄(4)

Have you been invited to tea? 'she asked me crossly. No, but you are the proper person to invite me, I smiled.

For some reason this really annoyed her. She stopped making the tea, and threw herself angrily back in her chair.

Meanwhile the young man was staring aggressively at me. He looked like a farm worker, but seemed to be part of the family.

I did not feel at all comfortable. At last Heathcliff came in. Here I am, sir, as I promised! I said cheerfully.

You shouldn't have come, he answered, shaking the snow off his clothes. You'll never find your way back in the dark. Perhaps you could lend me a servant to guide me back to the Grange? I asked.

No, I couldn't. There aren't any servants here except Joseph and the housekeeper. Get the tea ready, will you? he added fiercely to the young woman.

I was shocked by his unpleasantness. We sat down to eat. I tried to make conversation with the three silent people round the table.

How happy you must be, Mr Heathcliff, I began, in this quiet place, with your wife and- My wife! My wife's ghost, you mean?

I suddenly realized I had made a serious mistake. So his wife was dead! Of course he was too old to be married to that young girl.

She must be married to the young man next to me, who was drinking his tea out of a bowl and eating his bread with unwashed hands. Perhaps the poor girl had found no one better to marry in this uninhabited area. I turned politely to the young man.

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