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Wuthering Heights

CHAPTER IX
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He was rather too indulgent in humouring her caprices; not from affection, but from pride: he wished earnestly to see her bring honour to the family by an alliance with the Lintons, and as long as she let him alone she might trample on us like slaves, for aught he cared! Edgar Linton, as multitudes have been before and will be after him, was infatuated: and believed himself the happiest man alive on the day he led her to Gimmerton Chapel, three years subsequent to his father's death.
Much against my inclination, I was persuaded to leave Wuthering Heights and accompany her here.

Little Hareton was nearly five years old, and I had just begun to teach him his letters.

We made a sad parting; but Catherine's tears were more powerful than ours.

When I refused to go, and when she found her entreaties did not move me, she went lamenting to her husband and brother.

The former offered me munificent wages; the latter ordered me to pack up: he wanted no women in the house, he said, now that there was no mistress; and as to Hareton, the curate should take him in hand, by-and-by.


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