Household Staff (The Grange)

'A beast of a servant came up with a lantern...'

In this pivotal scene at Thrushcross Grange, we meet Robert—‘a beast of a servant.’ After Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff’s perceived attempt at a break-in, Mr. Linton instructs another servant, John, to fasten Skulker’s chain and call to the housekeeper, Jenny to fetch water for the bulldog.

“What prey, Robert?” hallooed Linton from the entrance.

“‘Skulker has caught a little girl, sir,’ he replied, ‘and there’s a lad here,’ he added, making a clutch at me, ‘who looks like an out-and-outer! Very like, the robbers were for putting them through the window, to open the doors to the gang after all were asleep, that they might murder us all at their ease. Hold your tongue, you foul-mouthed thief, you! you shall go to the gallows for this. Mr. Linton, sir, don’t lay by your gun!’”

Volume I: Chapter VI

Michael, the groom at Thrushcross Grange, accepts books from Cathy Linton to prepare her horse for her so she may make evening trips to Wuthering Heights.