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Wuthering Heights

CHAPTER XXIII
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It's something new to hear a voice like yours!' he replied.
'But I have been vexed, because you wouldn't come.

And papa swore it was owing to me: he called me a pitiful, shuffling, worthless thing; and said you despised me; and if he had been in my place, he would be more the master of the Grange than your father by this time.

But you don't despise me, do you, Miss-- ?' 'I wish you would say Catherine, or Cathy,' interrupted my young lady.
'Despise you?
No! Next to papa and Ellen, I love you better than anybody living.

I don't love Mr.Heathcliff, though; and I dare not come when he returns: will he stay away many days ?' 'Not many,' answered Linton; 'but he goes on to the moors frequently, since the shooting season commenced; and you might spend an hour or two with me in his absence.

Do say you will.


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