Quotation from: Wuthering Heights

Written by: Emily Bronte

I carried it, and repeated the message; anxiously watched by my
employer. Hareton would not open his fingers, so I laid it on his
knee. He did not strike it off, either. I returned to my work.
Catherine leaned her head and arms on the table, till she heard the
slight rustle of the covering being removed; then she stole away,
and quietly seated herself beside her cousin. He trembled, and his
face glowed: all his rudeness and all his surly harshness had
deserted him: he could not summon courage, at first, to utter a
syllable in reply to her questioning look, and her murmured
petition.