[Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte]@TWC D-Link bookWuthering Heights CHAPTER XXII 12/14
He dreams of you day and night, and cannot be persuaded that you don't hate him, since you neither write nor call.' I closed the door, and rolled a stone to assist the loosened lock in holding it; and spreading my umbrella, I drew my charge underneath: for the rain began to drive through the moaning branches of the trees, and warned us to avoid delay.
Our hurry prevented any comment on the encounter with Heathcliff, as we stretched towards home; but I divined instinctively that Catherine's heart was clouded now in double darkness. Her features were so sad, they did not seem hers: she evidently regarded what she had heard as every syllable true. The master had retired to rest before we came in.
Cathy stole to his room to inquire how he was; he had fallen asleep.
She returned, and asked me to sit with her in the library.
We took our tea together; and afterwards she lay down on the rug, and told me not to talk, for she was weary.
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