Wuthering Heights

wgat prevents heathvliff from beating hindley to death

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Heathcliff stops himself from beating Hindley to death. It's a matter of self-control.

"He exerted preterhuman self-denial in abstaining from finishing him completely; but getting out of breath, he finally desisted, and dragged the apparently inanimate body on to the settle."

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