NELLY in Classic Quotes

1  Nelly Dean is lodged, at this minute, in your room.

Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII

2  Nelly, if you be tired you may sit down; if not, get home again.

Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XX

3  And, Nelly, once for all, let me beg you to warn Hareton and the other away from me.

Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV

4  I put the orange in his hand, and bade him tell his father that a woman called Nelly Dean was waiting to speak with him, by the garden gate.

Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XI

5  Come here now, Nelly: I must either persuade or compel you to aid me in fulfilling my determination to see Catherine, and that without delay.

Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIV

6  Even you, Nelly, if we have a dispute sometimes, you back Isabella at once; and I yield like a foolish mother: I call her a darling, and flatter her into a good temper.

Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER X

7  There was unobstructed admittance on that side also; and at the door sat my old friend Nelly Dean, sewing and singing a song; which was often interrupted from within by harsh words of scorn and intolerance, uttered in far from musical accents.

Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXII