WUTHERING HEIGHTS in WUTHERING HEIGHTS

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famous and still popular novel (by Emily Brontë) of the dark and turbulent love of Catherine and Heathcliff (1847)

Wuthering Heights is the name of Mr. Heathcliff's dwelling.
Chapter 1 (21% in)

It includes kitchen and parlour, generally; but I believe at Wuthering Heights the kitchen is forced to retreat altogether into another quarter: at least I distinguished a chatter of tongues, and a clatter of culinary utensils, deep within; and I observed no signs of roasting, boiling, or baking, about the huge fireplace; nor any glitter of copper saucepans and tin cullenders on the walls.
Chapter 1 (33% in)
I had half a mind to spend it by my study fire, instead of wading through heath and mud to Wuthering Heights.
Chapter 2 (1% in)
'Well, yes — oh, you would intimate that her spirit has taken the post of ministering angel, and guards the fortunes of Wuthering Heights, even when her body is gone.
Chapter 2 (45% in)
At any rate, whatever were my wanderings, the clock chimed twelve as I entered the house; and that gave exactly an hour for every mile of the usual way from Wuthering Heights.
Chapter 3 (98% in)
'I see the house at Wuthering Heights has "Earnshaw" carved over the front door.
Chapter 4 (21% in)
Have you been to Wuthering Heights?
Chapter 4 (23% in)
Before I came to live here, she commenced — waiting no farther invitation to her story — I was almost always at Wuthering Heights; because my mother had nursed Mr. Hindley Earnshaw, that was Hareton's father, and I got used to playing with the children: I ran errands too, and helped to make hay, and hung about the farm ready for anything that anybody would set me to.
Chapter 4 (35% in)
They had invited them to spend the morrow at Wuthering Heights, and the invitation had been accepted, on one condition: Mrs. Linton begged that her darlings might be kept carefully apart from that 'naughty swearing boy.'
Chapter 7 (22% in)
Who knows but your father was Emperor of China, and your mother an Indian queen, each of them able to buy up, with one week's income, Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange together?
Chapter 7 (48% in)
When we got to Wuthering Heights, there he stood at the front door; and, as I passed in, I asked, 'how was the baby?'
Chapter 8 (11% in)
Mr. Edgar seldom mustered courage to visit Wuthering Heights openly.
Chapter 8 (40% in)
'This is nothing,' cried she: 'I was only going to say that heaven did not seem to be my home; and I broke my heart with weeping to come back to earth; and the angels were so angry that they flung me out into the middle of the heath on the top of Wuthering Heights; where I woke sobbing for joy.
Chapter 9 (42% in)
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.
Chapter 9 (96% in)
Wuthering Heights rose above this silvery vapour; but our old house was invisible; it rather dips down on the other side.
Chapter 10 (20% in)
'No, to Wuthering Heights,' he answered: 'Mr.
Chapter 10 (39% in)
'What do you think of his going to Wuthering Heights?'
Chapter 10 (48% in)
...and the success of her fulfilled resolution was obvious on the morrow: Mr. Linton had not only abjured his peevishness (though his spirits seemed still subdued by Catherine's exuberance of vivacity), but he ventured no objection to her taking Isabella with her to Wuthering Heights in the afternoon; and she rewarded him with such a summer of sweetness and affection in return as made the house a paradise for several days; both master and servants profiting from the perpetual sunshine.
Chapter 10 (56% in)
How has he been living? how has he got rich? why is he staying at Wuthering Heights, the house of a man whom he abhors?
Chapter 10 (76% in)
I wanted something to happen which might have the effect of freeing both Wuthering Heights and the Grange of Mr. Heathcliff quietly; leaving us as we had been prior to his advent.
Chapter 10 (99% in)
'I thought I was lying in my chamber at Wuthering Heights.
Chapter 12 (31% in)
There was no moon, and everything beneath lay in misty darkness: not a light gleamed from any house, far or near all had been extinguished long ago: and those at Wuthering Heights were never visible — still she asserted she caught their shining.
Chapter 12 (48% in)
DEAR ELLEN, it begins, — I came last night to Wuthering Heights, and heard, for the first time, that Catherine has been, and is yet, very ill.
Chapter 13 (18% in)
I had sought shelter at Wuthering Heights, almost gladly, because I was secured by that arrangement from living alone with him; but he knew the people we were coming amongst, and he did not fear their intermeddling.
Chapter 13 (47% in)
You may call at Wuthering Heights this afternoon, if you like, and say that I am not angry, but I'm sorry to have lost her; especially as I can never think she'll be happy.
Chapter 14 (2% in)
'In that case I'll take measures to secure you, woman!' exclaimed Heathcliff; 'you shall not leave Wuthering Heights till to-morrow morning.
Chapter 14 (84% in)
At Wuthering Heights it always sounded on quiet days following a great thaw or a season of steady rain.
Chapter 15 (20% in)
And of Wuthering Heights Catherine was thinking as she listened: that is, if she thought or listened at all; but she had the vague, distant look I mentioned before, which expressed no recognition of material things either by ear or eye.
Chapter 15 (21% in)
CHAPTER XVI ABOUT twelve o'clock that night was born the Catherine you saw at Wuthering Heights: a puny, seven-months' child; and two hours after the mother died, having never recovered sufficient consciousness to miss Heathcliff, or know Edgar.
Chapter 16 (1% in)
'I have run the whole way from Wuthering Heights!' she continued, after a pause; 'except where I've flown.
Chapter 17 (3% in)
I rang the bell, and committed it to a servant's care; and then I inquired what had urged her to escape from Wuthering Heights in such an unlikely plight, and where she meant to go, as she refused remaining with us.
Chapter 17 (14% in)
And far rather would I be condemned to a perpetual dwelling in the infernal regions than, even for one night, abide beneath the roof of Wuthering Heights again.'
Chapter 17 (70% in)
Whatever I did, that idea would bother me: it was so tiresomely pertinacious that I resolved on requesting leave to go to Wuthering Heights, and assist in the last duties to the dead.
Chapter 17 (88% in)
The guest was now the master of Wuthering Heights: he held firm possession, and proved to the attorney — who, in his turn, proved it to Mr. Linton — that Earnshaw had mortgaged every yard of land he owned for cash to supply his mania for gaming; and he, Heathcliff, was the mortgagee.
Chapter 17 (98% in)
Wuthering Heights and Mr. Heathcliff did not exist for her: she was a perfect recluse; and, apparently, perfectly contented.
Chapter 18 (10% in)
The road thither wound close by Wuthering Heights.
Chapter 18 (20% in)
I don't pretend to be intimately acquainted with the mode of living customary in those days at Wuthering Heights: I only speak from hearsay; for I saw little.
Chapter 18 (89% in)
And then, I thought, how ever will that weakling live at Wuthering Heights?
Chapter 19 (60% in)
'Tell Mr. Heathcliff,' he answered calmly, 'that his son shall come to Wuthering Heights to-morrow.
Chapter 19 (90% in)
'Is Wuthering Heights as pleasant a place as Thrushcross Grange?' he inquired, turning to take a last glance into the valley, whence a light mist mounted and formed a fleecy cloud on the skirts of the blue.
Chapter 20 (25% in)
When I chanced to encounter the housekeeper of Wuthering Heights, in paying business visits to Gimmerton, I used to ask how the young master got on; for he lived almost as secluded as Catherine herself, and was never to be seen.
Chapter 21 (2% in)
Finally, she dived into a hollow; and before I came in sight of her again, she was two miles nearer Wuthering Heights than her own home; and I beheld a couple of persons arrest her, one of whom I felt convinced was Mr. Heathcliff himself.
Chapter 21 (16% in)
My master, perceiving that she would not take his word for her uncle-in-law's evil disposition, gave a hasty sketch of his conduct to Isabella, and the manner in which Wuthering Heights became his property.
Chapter 21 (69% in)
We parted that night — hostile; but next day beheld me on the road to Wuthering Heights, by the side of my wilful young mistress's pony.
Chapter 22 (98% in)
'Well, well,' I cried, 'after all, we needn't trouble ourselves; for listen, Miss, — and mind, I'll keep my word, — if you attempt going to Wuthering Heights again, with or without me, I shall inform Mr. Linton, and, unless he allow it, the intimacy with your cousin must not be revived.'
Chapter 23 (88% in)
We sat down in the window-seat; I assured her I would not scold, whatever her secret might be, and I guessed it, of course; so she commenced — 'I've been to Wuthering Heights, Ellen, and I've never missed going a day since you fell ill; except thrice before, and twice after you left your room.
Chapter 24 (18% in)
Minny and I went flying home as light as air; and I dreamt of Wuthering Heights and my sweet, darling cousin, till morning.
Chapter 24 (38% in)
'I didn't bid you good-night that evening, and I didn't go to Wuthering Heights the next: I wished to go exceedingly; but I was strangely excited, and dreaded to hear that Linton was dead, sometimes; and sometimes shuddered at the thought of encountering Hareton.
Chapter 24 (73% in)
I can't be prevented from going to Wuthering Heights, except by inflicting misery on two people; whereas, if you'll only not tell papa, my going need disturb the tranquillity of none.
Chapter 24 (94% in)
In vain she wept and writhed against the interdict, and implored her father to have pity on Linton: all she got to comfort her was a promise that he would write and give him leave to come to the Grange when he pleased; but explaining that he must no longer expect to see Catherine at Wuthering Heights.
Chapter 24 (99% in)
'Linton dear!' whispered Catherine, 'I can't go to Wuthering Heights: papa has forbidden me.
Chapter 27 (33% in)
The anguish he had exhibited on the moor subsided as soon as ever he entered Wuthering Heights; so I guessed he had been menaced with an awful visitation of wrath if he failed in decoying us there; and, that accomplished, he had no further immediate fears.
Chapter 27 (58% in)
'Did she come to Wuthering Heights because she hated you?'
Chapter 28 (28% in)
It was well I succeeded in removing her, for at dinner-time appeared the lawyer, having called at Wuthering Heights to get his instructions how to behave.
Chapter 28 (88% in)
'Send that over to-morrow,' said Heathcliff to me; then turning to her, he added: 'You may do without your pony: it is a fine evening, and you'll need no ponies at Wuthering Heights; for what journeys you take, your own feet will serve you.
Chapter 29 (94% in)
Notwithstanding the doctor's prophecy, I am rapidly recovering strength; and though it be only the second week in January, I propose getting out on horseback in a day or two, and riding over to Wuthering Heights, to inform my landlord that I shall spend the next six months in London; and, if he likes, he may look out for another tenant to take the place after October.
Chapter 30 (98% in)
Wuthering Heights was the goal of my proposed excursion.
Chapter 32 (14% in)
But the house of Wuthering Heights is so large that the inmates have plenty of space for withdrawing out of its influence; and accordingly what inmates there were had stationed themselves not far from one of the windows.
Chapter 32 (20% in)
I was summoned to Wuthering Heights, within a fortnight of your leaving us, she said; and I obeyed joyfully, for Catherine's sake.
Chapter 32 (44% in)
His brightening mind brightened his features, and added spirit and nobility to their aspect: I could hardly fancy it the same individual I had beheld on the day I discovered my little lady at Wuthering Heights, after her expedition to the Crags.
Chapter 33 (59% in)

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