1 But Mr. Heathcliff forms a singular contrast to his abode and style of living.
2 They had a smart battle, before their owners could separate them: that formed an introduction.
3 In fact, it formed a little closet, and the ledge of a window, which it enclosed, served as a table.
4 Some were detached sentences; other parts took the form of a regular diary, scrawled in an unformed, childish hand.
5 What he meant to do I cannot tell; however, the other stopped all demonstrations, at once, by placing the lifeless-looking form in his arms.
6 But it was so miserable going to bed and getting up, and never hearing anything about him, that my resolution melted into air before it was properly formed.
7 One day, as she inspected this drawer, I observed that the playthings and trinkets which recently formed its contents were transmuted into bits of folded paper.
8 His young and fair features were almost as deathlike as those of the form beside him, and almost as fixed: but his was the hush of exhausted anguish, and hers of perfect peace.
9 I can hardly regard her in the light of a rational creature, so obstinately has she persisted in forming a fabulous notion of my character and acting on the false impressions she cherished.
10 The little one was always Cathy: it formed to him a distinction from the mother, and yet a connection with her; and his attachment sprang from its relation to her, far more than from its being his own.
11 She hardly raised her eyes to notice me, and continued her employment with the same disregard to common forms of politeness as before; never returning my bow and good-morning by the slightest acknowledgment.
12 She seemed pleased at this arrangement; and, by degrees, I smuggled over a great number of books, and other articles, that had formed her amusement at the Grange; and flattered myself we should get on in tolerable comfort.