Heathcliff's Uncomfortable Conduct

'I thought if I had caused the cloud it was my duty to make an effort to dispel it,' he wrote. 'The tone in which the words were said revealed a genuine bad nature.' He went on: 'Perhaps I can get a guide among your lads, and he might stay at the Grange till morning?' "'No, I could not. Could you spare me one?'"'Oh, indeed, well then I must trust to my own sagacity', he replied. "Now sir, bring forward your chair."