. . .nter'>———— ... All day had been flooding with rain; we could not go to church. There was no possibility of taking a walk that day, ... the cold winter wind had brought with it a rain so penetrating that further outdoor exercise was out of the question. Hindley [Branwell Brontë] and his wife [? Sister Maria] basked downstairs before a comfortable fire. Eliza, John [Branwell Brontë], and Georgiana were now clustered round their mamma [Aunt Branwell] in the drawing-room ... by the fireside ... looking perfectly happy.[Pg 38] Heathcliffe [Method I., interchange of the sexes. In the childhood of Heathcliffe Charlotte often portrays herself], myself, and the ... ploughboy were commanded to take our prayer-books and mount ... on a sack ... [in the garret. They go downstairs again].
   "You forget you have a master in me," says the tyrant [Hindley: Branwell Brontë].
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