C. i remember reading this a few years back :)
'She did not yell out-no! she would have scorned to do it, if she had been on the horns of a mad cow' would be the best line for this.
The sentence above indicates that his wife has the typical attitude of upper class women during that time, spoiled and cowardly and Since hindley Earnshaw also grew within that society, he basically displayed the same charactr.
Is there anyway to emphasize that question you're asking?
<span>The language of the Anglo-Saxons (up to about 1150), a highly inflected language with a largely Germanic vocabulary, very different from modern English.</span>