"'He's there, is he?' exclaimed my companion, rushing to the gap. 'If I can get my arm out I can hit him!'
"I'm afraid, Ellen, you'll set me down as really wicked; but you don't know all, so don't judge. I wouldn't have aided or abetted an attempt on even _his_ life for anything. Wish that he were dead, I must; and therefore I was fearfully disappointed, and unnerved by terror for the consequences of my taunting speech, when he flung himself on Earnshaw's weapon and wrenched it from his grasp.

'"He's there, is he?" exclaimed Hindley, rushing over.
'I wouldn't have aided an attempt on Heathcliff's life, Ellen. Still, I was fearfully disappointed when he flung himself on Earnshaw's weapon and wrenched it from his grasp.
