Entering the darker places: The bleak hill-top in Wuthering Heights

Let’s look at the second sentence in the Wuthering Heights snippet. Like many classic gothic sentences, it’s long.

We’re going to need to approach this one in fragments, too.

The most interesting detail here is the word being. Why didn’t Bronte write it more simply? Like this:

We don’t know why Bronte chose specific words, but there is a definite difference in feeling between the two versions. 

Part of the effect is that using the word being makes the narrator seem kind of passive, like something is happening that they are powerless to control, and this ever-so-subtly makes them seem vulnerable.

How could we use the structure of this part of the snippet in our own writing?