Wuthering Heights 2

"Why cannot you always be a good man, father?" But as soon as she saw him vexed again, she kissed his hand, and said she would sing him to sleep.

At first Catherine is talking to her father and doesn't care that she is probably going to hurt his feelings and seem rude by asking him why he is not a good man all the time, and once she sees his upset reaction she changes her tone and offers to sing to him. This tone change is conveyed through the use of many soft "s" sounds in "as" "soon" "she" "saw" "kissed" "sing" "sleep." The soft, hushed sounds show the switch to a warmer tone with her father.

Wuthering Heights 1

"Fortunately, the beasts seemed more bent on stretching their paws, and yawning, and flourishing their tales, than devouring me alive; but they would suffer no resurrection, and I was forced to lie till their malignant masters pleased to deliver me: then, hatless and trembling with wrath, I ordered the miscreants to let me out - on their peril to keep me one minute longer - with several incoherent threats of retaliation that, in their indefinite depth of virulency, smacked of King Lear."

Here there is an allusion to King Lear made. Because King Lear gives a big speech about "retaliating" and seeking revenge on his daughters and Mr. Lockwood is relating the dogs' masters to King Lear by pointing out how they are trying to get revenge on him.