“Tell her what Heathcliff is…. He’s not a rough diamond—a pearl-containing oyster of a rustic; he’s a fierce, pitiless, wolfish man.’” But Isabella will not believe it. “‘Mr. Heathcliff is not a fiend,’” she says; “‘he has an honourable soul, and a true one, or how could he remember her?’” It is the same insight that made George Meredith represent Juliana, the sentimental passionist, …”
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte











