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Wuthering Heights
In this self-complacent conviction she departed; 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.
Heathcliff - Mr. Heathcliff I should say in future - used
the liberty of visiting at Thrushcross Grange cautiously, at
first: he seemed estimating how far its owner would bear
his intrusion. Catherine, also, deemed it judicious to
moderate her expressions of pleasure in receiving him; and
he gradually established his right to be expected. He
retained a great deal of the reserve for which his boyhood
was remarkable; and that served to repress all startling
demonstrations of feeling. My master’s uneasiness
experienced a lull, and further circumstances diverted it
into another channel for a space.
His new source of trouble sprang from the not
anticipated misfortune of Isabella Linton evincing a sudden
and irresistible attraction towards the tolerated guest. She
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