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was always ‘love,’ and ‘darling,’ and ‘queen,’ and ‘angel,’
with everybody at the Grange, to be insulted so
shockingly by a stranger! She did not comprehend it; and
hard work I had to obtain a promise that she would not

lay the grievance before her father. I explained how he
objected to the whole household at the Heights, and how
sorry he would be to find she had been there; but I
insisted most on the fact, that if she revealed my
negligence of his orders, he would perhaps be so angry
that I should have to leave; and Cathy couldn’t bear that
prospect: she pledged her word, and kept it for my sake.
After all, she was a sweet little girl.

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