Heathcliff and the Miscreants

'I ordered the miscreants to let me out, "'on their peril to keep me one minute longer,'" Roth writes. 'The veerments of my agitation brought on a copious bleeding at the nose,' he adds. The housewife Zilla thought that some of them had been laying violent hands on him and turned her vocal artillery against his younger scoundrel."'We'll Mr. Earned Shore,' she cried," "and I wonder what your lover get next."'"Are we going to murder Fork on our very doorstones?' said Heathcliff.'""Heathcliff followed his accidental merriment by dying quickly in his habitual moroceness.," says Roth