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on the topics we touched; and before I went home, I was encouraged so far as to volunteer another visit to-morrow. He evidently wished no repetition of my intrusion. I shall go, notwithstanding. It is astonishing how sociable I feel myself compared with him. 10 Wuthering Heights
Chapter II YESTERDAY afternoon set in misty and cold. I had half a mind to spend it by my study fire, instead of wading through heath and mud to Wuthering Heights. On coming up from dinner, however, (N.B. I dine between twelve and one o’clock; the housekeeper, a matronly lady, taken as a fixture along with the house, could not, or would not, comprehend my request that I might be served at five) on mounting the stairs with this lazy intention, and stepping into the room, I saw a servant-girl on her knees surrounded by brushes and coal-scuttles, and raising an infernal dust as she extinguished the flames with heaps of cinders. This spectacle drove me back immediately; I took my hat, and, after a four-miles’ walk, arrived at Heathcliff’s garden-gate just in time to escape the first feathery flakes of a snowshower. On that bleak hill-top the earth was hard with a black frost, and the air made me shiver through every limb. Being unable to remove the chain, I jumped over, and, running up the flagged causeway bordered with straggling gooseberrybushes, knocked vainly for admittance, till my knuckles tingled and the dogs howled. ‘Wretched inmates!’ I ejaculated, mentally, ‘you deserve perpetual isolation from your species for your churlish inhospitality. At least, I would not keep my doors barred in Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com 11
Page 1 and 2: Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
Page 3 and 4: Chapter I 1801. I have just returne
Page 5 and 6: foresight to build it strong: the n
Page 7 and 8: Mr. Heathcliff may have entirely di
Page 9: ‘What the devil is the matter?’
Page 13 and 14: sure attendance: I had hard work to
Page 15 and 16: hands were embrowned like those of
Page 17 and 18: for love by girls: that dream is re
Page 19 and 20: I saw only Joseph bringing in a pai
Page 21 and 22: ‘Then, it follows that I am compe
Page 23 and 24: to inquire into the nature of the u
Page 25 and 26: varied to CATHERINE HEATHCLIFF, and
Page 27 and 28: from the stables. He tears down my
Page 29 and 30: I began to dream, almost before I c
Page 31 and 32: come. Brethren, execute upon him th
Page 33 and 34: er door; somebody pushed it open, w
Page 35 and 36: on that window-ledge. A monotonous
Page 37 and 38: pactly together, enabled me to reki
Page 39 and 40: Heathcliff lifted his hand, and the
Page 41 and 42: Chapter IV WHAT vain weathercocks w
Page 43 and 44: a minute’s reflection convinced m
Page 45 and 46: eating my porridge with them and he
Page 47 and 48: the stupid little thing; earning fo
Page 49 and 50: fectly the hold he had on his heart
Page 51 and 52: Chapter V IN the course of time Mr.
Page 53 and 54: parish: and, after all, I believe s
Page 55 and 56: he set down the light; and seizing
Page 57 and 58: set her all in a quiver, and that s
Page 59 and 60: spite of the prohibition, should th
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exchange, for a thousand lives, my
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‘and look how Skulker has bitten
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Chapter VII CATHY stayed at Thrushc
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and drawing back, burst into a laug
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of his wrongs than shedding tears o
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‘But, Nelly, if I knocked him dow
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‘Nay, sir,’ I could not avoid a
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cliff, who had been locked up by th
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from the hearth, and I was very far
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a book in this library that I have
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your wife has been spared to leave
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would. Joseph remained to hector ov
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eceived with our best attempts at c
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‘Not that I know of,’ stammered
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Nelly?’ ‘My work, Miss,’ I re
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‘You must not go!’ she exclaime
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Chapter IX HE entered, vociferating
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There was scarcely time to experien
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I went into the kitchen, and sat do
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Then I put her through the followin
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‘It’s my secret. But if you wil
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further. My companion, sitting on t
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and ‘ She paused, and hid her fac
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loft. I’ll engage he’s lurking
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o’clock it is? Half-past twelve.
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haviour, lurking amang t’ fields,
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a ban also: he would speak his mind
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Chapter X A CHARMING introduction t
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observed that Mr. Edgar had a deep-
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tress. Go, and say some person from
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little the intensity of her delight
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ose, and stepping across the rug, s
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an open quarrel between them.’
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always greedy; though what he grasp
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for the minute he discovered its ex
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on a winter’s day, as recommend y
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dig thur fingers i’ thur lugs fur
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‘By no means!’ cried Mrs. Linto
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is scarcely mad; and, in short, we
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on the withered turf: his dark, squ
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‘And the curate does not teach yo
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patient! Every day I grow madder af
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‘Ellen,’ said he, when I entere
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something, followed; and when I att
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the inner door, and made his escape
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are full of icewater; but mine are
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Chapter XII WHILE Miss Linton moped
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actually so utterly indifferent for
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down is flying about like snow.’
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held the casement ajar a few second
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‘Because I won’t give you your
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‘You shall account more clearly f
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make her howl a recantation!’ A m
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‘And does Miss Linton turn a cold
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‘What ails your young lady?’
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Chapter XIII FOR two months the fug
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the parlour sofa for her bed, till
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ion halted half an hour, to inspect
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en door; and when I would have gone
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‘Well!’ I said. ‘But why, Mr.
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emembrance. It racked me to recall
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serving, ‘and pleasant inmates; a
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a prolonged, piteous yelping. I had
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ing: I saw her looking through the
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have nothing but common humanity an
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him that.’ ‘You have been telli
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genuine idiotcy, for that pitiful,
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her. Last night I was in the Grange
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merited so harsh an appellation, sh
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ow. He departed, and I went up-stai
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the name, and gazed at me with mour
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away her moral character also. Her
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instant they held asunder, and then
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‘I must go, Cathy,’ said Heathc
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Chapter XVI ABOUT twelve o’clock
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ise to quit the room and steal out
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ly days. Her life closed in a gentl
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of the kirk-yard, where the wall is
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count the number of falls I’ve ha
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‘Well, don’t talk so fast, Miss
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at the funeral. He kept himself sob
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‘The doleful silence was broken a
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‘’I shall not meddle in the mat
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efore. Being at liberty, I lost no
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ner beside him. ‘Heathcliff did n
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would have been living now had it n
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abode was in the south, near London
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to their children; and I could not
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he ought to and must inquire how th
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one; so intimate to your master tha
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a harsh word to her. He took her ed
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a kind of fever, slow at its commen
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the high-road. I walked as if for a
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with her, and I thought he should:
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this moment!’ ‘Softly, Miss,’
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solace in drink by what he termed t
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Chapter XIX A LETTER, edged with bl
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don’t harass him much by talking:
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these words, and now presented hims
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of where he is gone to my daughter:
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valley, whence a light mist mounted
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followed in gaping curiosity. Poor
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as your master tends his own. I hav
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Chapter XXI WE had sad work with li
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een twice, on horseback, accompanyi
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were quantities up here, and I wish
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tain, Catherine would be the heir.
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future: may I, uncle? and sometimes
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sentence in Heathcliff’s ear. He
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‘Get up, you idle boy!’ he excl
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on the characters of the people we
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discourse long upon the topic; for
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shut her door, in great displeasure
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position. It was more simple and mo
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‘I promise, Ellen!’ she cried,
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certain of showers. She refused; an
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spared till he saw sixty, that woul
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planation to ask and obtain.’ ‘
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and contrive to see him. He dreams
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Chapter XXIII THE rainy night had u
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is out there but Joseph.’ ‘I wa
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‘MY papa scorns yours!’ cried L
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you.’ ‘Must I go?’ asked Cath
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long interesting ballad one of thos
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soon as I entered I hastened to cha
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ing remained alone a long while, I
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efastening the lock of the park doo
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songs YOUR songs, Ellen; and when I
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worth while being civil to the brut
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him.’ I stood crying till the hou
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on purpose to hurt you, and pretend
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was a promise that he would write a
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prospect of improvement, as he grow
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divided. That part of his letter wa
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Chapter XXVI SUMMER was already pas
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person and manner. The pettishness
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was compelled to perform this inter
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Chapter XXVII SEVEN days glided awa
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‘My father IS very ill,’ she sa
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and the sincerity of which I couldn
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He approached once more, and made a
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and, what with that and the rage, I
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monkey like you? Are you cherishing
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‘Silence!’ said the ruffian.
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cried Heathcliff, brutally repulsin
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And there I remained enclosed the w
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flit, when you go up; here is the k
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‘I can’t stay with her,’ he a
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him, even in those few days! He lay
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a faint colour with my apron. Then
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Chapter XXIX THE evening after the
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natural heart.’ ‘I’m seeking
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and you’ll have a better chance o
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had not resembled catgut, they woul
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Chapter XXX I HAVE paid a visit to
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stantly, and tell him.’ ‘Having
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cold; and I told her the master was
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degrees, quite centred in the study
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tor’s prophecy, I am rapidly reco
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‘She does not seem so amiable,’
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the mere love of stealing! They are
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of balancing the account, and repay
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come. Catherine bring the things in
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turf on the graves. It was sweet, w
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extra heat endurable. But the house
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‘Why, bless you, Mr. Lockwood! Ho
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delusion did not last long. Catheri
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he took to smoking with Joseph; and
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Catherine frowned, and retreated to
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happy by speaking that little word.
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Chapter XXXIII ON the morrow of tha
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Hareton looked at his plate, and di
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‘And Hareton’s land, and his mo
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that Earnshaw took the master’s r
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is ready and in my power, I find th
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conscious of it now.’ ‘You have
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Chapter XXXIV FOR some days after t
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I obeyed: and, in passing, I notice
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ior gloom. The fire had smouldered
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taking it out of doors, under the t
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ing the floor, and he frequently br
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and show you how very far you have
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tice, flapping to and fro, had graz
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I saw nothing; but neither the shee
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