[13] As Lockhart expresses it in the _Quarterly_, “There is a decided
family likeness between _Jane Eyre_ and _Wuthering Heights_, yet the
aspect of the Jane and Rochester animals in their native state, as
Catherine and Heathcliff, is too odiously and abominably pagan to be
palatable even to the most vitiated class of novel readers. With all
the unscrupulousness of the French school of novels it combines that
repulsive vulgarity in the choice of its vice which supplies its own
antidote.”
[14] “She did not approve of twilight walks. Why should they want to go
out just then like the tradespeople, a thing which ladies never did.”