Emily Brontë quote about hiding from Wuthering Heights - Honest people don't hide their deeds.
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Honest people don't hide their deeds.
 Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights (1847). copy citation

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Author Emily Brontë
Source Wuthering Heights
Topic hiding honesty
Date 1847
Language English
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Weblink http://www.gutenberg.org/files/768/768-h/768-h.htm

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“'He's a bird of bad omen: no mate for you. Mrs. Linton spoke strongly, and yet I can't contradict her. She is better acquainted with his heart than I, or any one besides; and she never would represent him as worse than he is. Honest people don't hide their deeds. How has he been living? how has he got rich? why is he staying at Wuthering Heights, the house of a man whom he abhors? They say Mr. Earnshaw is worse and worse since he came. They sit up all night together continually, and Hindley has been borrowing money on his land, and does nothing but play and drink: I heard only a week ago—it was Joseph who told me—I met him at Gimmerton: «Nelly,» he said, «we's hae a crowner's 'quest enow, at ahr folks'.” source

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