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1,133	768_chapter_2	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Lockwood returns to Wuthering Heights, and as he arrives, snow begins to fall. He knocks in vain, for, as Joseph explains, no one is willing or able to let him in. Eventually, a young man appears and beckons Lockwood to follow him. Once inside, Lockwood sees who he assumes is Heathcliff's wife and attempts to engage he...	[ "Yesterday afternoon set in misty and cold. I had half a mind to spend it\nby my study fire, instead of wading through heath and mud to Wuthering\nHeights. On coming up from dinner, however, (N.B.--I dine between twelve\nand one o'clock; the housekeeper, a matronly lady, taken as a fixture\nalong with the house, ...
1,134	768_chapter_3	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Zillah leads Lockwood to a chamber in which Heathcliff allows no one to stay. Lockwood discovers a bed hidden behind panels and decides to spend the night there, safe from Heathcliff. By candlelight Lockwood spots three names -- Catherine Earnshaw, Catherine Heathcliff, and Catherine Linton -- and some books. Unable to...	[ "While leading the way upstairs, she recommended that I should hide the\ncandle, and not make a noise; for her master had an odd notion about the\nchamber she would put me in, and never let anybody lodge there willingly.\nI asked the reason. She did not know, she answered: she had only lived\nthere a year or two; ...
1,135	768_chapter_4	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Recuperating from his wanderings, Lockwood asks Nelly about Heathcliff and his daughter-in-law. Nelly informs him that the widow's maiden name was Catherine Linton, the daughter of Nelly's late master, and that Hareton Earnshaw is the nephew of her late master's wife. Cathy is the last of the Lintons, and Hareton is th...	[ "What vain weathercocks we are! I, who had determined to hold myself\nindependent of all social intercourse, and thanked my stars that, at\nlength, I had lighted on a spot where it was next to impracticable--I,\nweak wretch, after maintaining till dusk a struggle with low spirits and\nsolitude, was finally compell...
1,136	768_chapter_5	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	As Mr. Earnshaw's health begins to fail, he becomes less tolerant of complaints about Heathcliff, and as a result, sends Hindley away to school. As Mr. Earnshaw moves closer to death, Joseph begins to have a greater influence over his master, particularly in regard to religion. Catherine continues to tease her father a...	[ "In the course of time Mr. Earnshaw began to fail. He had been active and\nhealthy, yet his strength left him suddenly; and when he was confined to\nthe chimney-corner he grew grievously irritable. A nothing vexed him;\nand suspected slights of his authority nearly threw him into fits. This\nwas especially to be re...
1,137	768_chapter_6	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Hindley returns for his father's funeral and brings a wife, Frances, along with him. Taking control of the farmhouse, Hindley immediately makes changes, moving Joseph and Nelly to the back-kitchen and prohibiting Heathcliff from receiving an education. Hindley also makes Heathcliff work in the fields. Hindley does not ...	[ "Mr. Hindley came home to the funeral; and--a thing that amazed us, and\nset the neighbours gossiping right and left--he brought a wife with him.\nWhat she was, and where she was born, he never informed us: probably, she\nhad neither money nor name to recommend her, or he would scarcely have\nkept the union from hi...
1,138	768_chapter_7	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Catherine remains at Thrushcross Grange for five weeks. During her stay, Mrs. Linton works with her, transforming the wild girl into a young lady. When Catherine returns to Wuthering Heights, she is barely recognizable. Hindley, treating Heathcliff as a servant, allows Catherine's playmate to step forward to greet her ...	[ "Cathy stayed at Thrushcross Grange five weeks: till Christmas. By that\ntime her ankle was thoroughly cured, and her manners much improved. The\nmistress visited her often in the interval, and commenced her plan of\nreform by trying to raise her self-respect with fine clothes and\nflattery, which she took readily;...
1,139	768_chapter_8	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	During the following summer, Frances gives birth to Hareton, but Frances dies a week later because she had been suffering from consumption. Nelly is expected to take complete control of the newborn. Hindley is distraught over the death of his wife and becomes tyrannical, forcing all the servants but Nelly and Joseph aw...	[ "On the morning of a fine June day my first bonny little nursling, and the\nlast of the ancient Earnshaw stock, was born. We were busy with the hay\nin a far-away field, when the girl that usually brought our breakfasts\ncame running an hour too soon across the meadow and up the lane, calling\nme as she ran.", "...
1,140	768_chapter_9	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	In a drunken rage, Hindley accidentally drops Hareton over the banister, but luckily, Heathcliff is present and catches the baby. Later, in the kitchen, Catherine speaks to Nelly. Thinking they are alone, Catherine tells Nelly that Edgar asked her to marry him and that she accepted. Catherine explains that she cannot m...	[ "He entered, vociferating oaths dreadful to hear; and caught me in the act\nof stowing his son away in the kitchen cupboard. Hareton was impressed\nwith a wholesome terror of encountering either his wild beast's fondness\nor his madman's rage; for in one he ran a chance of being squeezed and\nkissed to death, and ...
1,141	768_chapter_10	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Heathcliff reappears suddenly one September afternoon, approximately six months after Catherine and Edgar marry. Nelly does not tell Catherine who the visitor is, but she does tell Edgar. Edgar suggests that Catherine visit in the kitchen, but she insists on entertaining in the parlor. Catherine's excitement over Heath...	[ "A charming introduction to a hermit's life! Four weeks' torture,\ntossing, and sickness! Oh, these bleak winds and bitter northern skies,\nand impassable roads, and dilatory country surgeons! And oh, this dearth\nof the human physiognomy! and, worse than all, the terrible intimation of\nKenneth that I need not ...
1,142	768_chapter_11	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Nelly ventures back to Wuthering Heights to talk with Hindley; instead she encounters Hareton, who has no memory of her. Hareton greets her with a barrage of stones and curses -- actions he learned from Heathcliff. When Heathcliff appears, Nelly runs away. The next day at the Grange, Nelly witnesses an embrace between ...	[ "Sometimes, while meditating on these things in solitude, I've got up in a\nsudden terror, and put on my bonnet to go see how all was at the farm.\nI've persuaded my conscience that it was a duty to warn him how people\ntalked regarding his ways; and then I've recollected his confirmed bad\nhabits, and, hopeless of...
1,143	768_chapter_12	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	After three days of starving herself, Catherine agrees to eat. She is distraught that she is dying and Edgar has not come to her, begging forgiveness. In a state of delirium, Catherine talks about her childhood with Heathcliff and speaks of her impending death. When Nelly refuses to open the window, Catherine staggers ...	[ "While Miss Linton moped about the park and garden, always silent, and\nalmost always in tears; and her brother shut himself up among books that\nhe never opened--wearying, I guessed, with a continual vague expectation\nthat Catherine, repenting her conduct, would come of her own accord to\nask pardon, and seek a r...
1,144	768_chapter_13	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Edgar nurses Catherine for the next two months. During this time, it is revealed that Catherine is pregnant. Edgar longs for a male heir, to prevent Heathcliff and Isabella from inheriting the Grange. Six weeks after she runs away, Isabella sends a letter to Edgar, announcing her marriage and begging forgiveness. He do...	[ "For two months the fugitives remained absent; in those two months, Mrs.\nLinton encountered and conquered the worst shock of what was denominated\na brain fever. No mother could have nursed an only child more devotedly\nthan Edgar tended her. Day and night he was watching, and patiently\nenduring all the annoyan...
1,145	768_chapter_14	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Edgar refuses to forgive Isabella and sends nothing with Nelly when Nelly visits Wuthering Heights. Heathcliff is eager to hear news of Catherine's situation and demands that Nelly arrange a meeting between the two. Nelly refuses, but her refusal prompts Heathcliff to force Nelly to stay at Wuthering Heights, claiming ...	[ "As soon as I had perused this epistle I went to the master, and informed\nhim that his sister had arrived at the Heights, and sent me a letter\nexpressing her sorrow for Mrs. Linton's situation, and her ardent desire\nto see him; with a wish that he would transmit to her, as early as\npossible, some token of forgi...
1,146	768_chapter_15	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Four days later, Nelly delivers the letter, while the rest of the household is at church. Catherine is close to death and cannot even hold it. Nelly tells her it is from Heathcliff, but before Nelly can call him to the room , Heathcliff bursts into the room. When Catherine sees him, she claims that both Edgar and he ha...	[ "Another week over--and I am so many days nearer health, and spring! I\nhave now heard all my neighbour's history, at different sittings, as the\nhousekeeper could spare time from more important occupations. I'll\ncontinue it in her own words, only a little condensed. She is, on the\nwhole, a very fair narrator,...
1,147	768_chapter_16	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	At midnight that night, Catherine's daughter Cathy is born two months prematurely; two hours later, Catherine dies. In the morning, Nelly seeks Heathcliff to tell him the news, but he is already aware of the situation. He is angered that Catherine did not mention his name in her dying moments and is despondent over los...	[ "About twelve o'clock that night was born the Catherine you saw at\nWuthering Heights: a puny, seven-months' child; and two hours after the\nmother died, having never recovered sufficient consciousness to miss\nHeathcliff, or know Edgar. The latter's distraction at his bereavement\nis a subject too painful to be d...
1,148	768_chapter_17	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Quite unexpectedly, Isabella arrives at the Grange in a state of physical disarray. She knows better than to think Edgar will allow her to stay, so she is not seeking refuge, just assistance. She tells Nelly that Hindley stayed sober to attend his sister's funeral, but lost his courage and started drinking the morning ...	[ "That Friday made the last of our fine days for a month. In the evening\nthe weather broke: the wind shifted from south to north-east, and brought\nrain first, and then sleet and snow. On the morrow one could hardly\nimagine that there had been three weeks of summer: the primroses and\ncrocuses were hidden under wi...
1,149	768_chapter_18	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Young Cathy, sporting features of both parents, grows up at the Grange, unaware of Wuthering Heights and the people who live there. For 13 years Edgar never allows her to leave the grounds by herself. Being an inquisitive girl, when she hears of the Fairy cave at Penistone Craggs, she begs her father to take her there,...	[ "The twelve years, continued Mrs. Dean, following that dismal period were\nthe happiest of my life: my greatest troubles in their passage rose from\nour little lady's trifling illnesses, which she had to experience in\ncommon with all children, rich and poor. For the rest, after the first\nsix months, she grew like...
1,150	768_chapter_19	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Linton arrives from London, a "pale, delicate, effeminate boy" who greatly resembles Edgar. He is too weak and sick to play with Cathy and has to lie on a couch instead of sitting with the family during tea. Cathy treats him as should would a new pet. Edgar confides in Nelly that he hopes having a playmate his own age ...	[ "A letter, edged with black, announced the day of my master's return.\nIsabella was dead; and he wrote to bid me get mourning for his daughter,\nand arrange a room, and other accommodations, for his youthful nephew.\nCatherine ran wild with joy at the idea of welcoming her father back; and\nindulged most sanguine a...
1,151	768_chapter_20	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The next morning, Nelly takes Linton to Wuthering Heights. In order to get him to go to a father that he does not know, Nelly makes all sorts of assurances that she knows are not true. When they arrive, Heathcliff refers to his son as "property" and, speaking directly to Linton, refers to the boy's mother as a "wicked ...	[ "To obviate the danger of this threat being fulfilled, Mr. Linton\ncommissioned me to take the boy home early, on Catherine's pony; and,\nsaid he--'As we shall now have no influence over his destiny, good or\nbad, you must say nothing of where he is gone to my daughter: she cannot\nassociate with him hereafter, and...
1,152	768_chapter_21	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Three years later, with the memory of Linton erased from her mind, Cathy and Nelly are both bird hunting and exploring on the moors. Cathy moves more quickly than Nelly does, and before Nelly can stop them, Cathy is speaking with Heathcliff. While speaking with Heathcliff, Cathy notices Hareton and remarks that she has...	[ "We had sad work with little Cathy that day: she rose in high glee, eager\nto join her cousin, and such passionate tears and lamentations followed\nthe news of his departure that Edgar himself was obliged to soothe her,\nby affirming he should come back soon: he added, however, 'if I can get\nhim'; and there were n...
1,153	768_chapter_22	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	During the winter, Cathy has little time to think of Linton because she is nursing her father, whom she thinks is dying. While walking one day, Cathy's hat blows over the garden wall. Nelly helps Cathy over the wall to fetch it, but Cathy cannot scale the other side by herself. While Nelly searches for a key to open th...	[ "Summer drew to an end, and early autumn: it was past Michaelmas, but the\nharvest was late that year, and a few of our fields were still uncleared.\nMr. Linton and his daughter would frequently walk out among the reapers;\nat the carrying of the last sheaves they stayed till dusk, and the\nevening happening to be ...
1,154	768_chapter_23	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Nelly and Cathy travel in the rain all the way to Wuthering Heights. Heathcliff is indeed not home, and Linton is more pathetic than ever. He complains about the servants and whines to Cathy, first for not visiting, and then for writing instead of visiting. He also mentions the idea of marriage. Linton's talk of love v...	[ "The rainy night had ushered in a misty morning--half frost, half\ndrizzle--and temporary brooks crossed our path--gurgling from the\nuplands. My feet were thoroughly wetted; I was cross and low; exactly\nthe humour suited for making the most of these disagreeable things. We\nentered the farm-house by the kitchen...
1,155	768_chapter_24	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	After Nelly recovers, she notices that Cathy is agitated in the evening. Cathy pretends to retire early, but when Nelly cannot find her anywhere in the house, she waits in Cathy's room for her to return. Cathy attempts a feeble lie at first but soon admits the truth. On one of her visits, Hareton stops her and tells he...	[ "At the close of three weeks I was able to quit my chamber and move about\nthe house. And on the first occasion of my sitting up in the evening I\nasked Catherine to read to me, because my eyes were weak. We were in the\nlibrary, the master having gone to bed: she consented, rather\nunwillingly, I fancied; and im...
1,156	768_chapter_25	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Breaking from her narrative, Nelly tells Lockwood that these events transpired a little over a year ago. Lockwood is so enraptured with the story that he begs her to continue. Cathy obeys her father's wishes. Nelly tells Edgar that Linton is of frail health, and Edgar admits that he fears for Cathy's happiness. He even...	[ "'These things happened last winter, sir,' said Mrs. Dean; 'hardly more\nthan a year ago. Last winter, I did not think, at another twelve months'\nend, I should be amusing a stranger to the family with relating them!\nYet, who knows how long you'll be a stranger? You're too young to rest\nalways contented, living...
1,157	768_chapter_26	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	At the time of the first scheduled meeting on the moors, Linton is not at the agreed-upon spot; rather, he is quite close to Wuthering Heights. Both Nelly and Cathy are concerned about Linton's health, but he insists that he is getting stronger. During their entire visit he is squeamish and scared and is constantly loo...	[ "Summer was already past its prime, when Edgar reluctantly yielded his\nassent to their entreaties, and Catherine and I set out on our first ride\nto join her cousin. It was a close, sultry day: devoid of sunshine, but\nwith a sky too dappled and hazy to threaten rain: and our place of\nmeeting had been fixed at t...
1,158	768_chapter_27	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	During the week that follows, Edgar's health continues to deteriorate, so it is grudgingly that Cathy rides to meet Linton. During the visit, Heathcliff arrives and demands to know if Edgar is truly dying. Heathcliff is worried that Linton might die before Edgar does. Heathcliff asks Cathy to walk her cousin back to Wu...	[ "Seven days glided away, every one marking its course by the henceforth\nrapid alteration of Edgar Linton's state. The havoc that months had\npreviously wrought was now emulated by the inroads of hours. Catherine\nwe would fain have deluded yet; but her own quick spirit refused to\ndelude her: it divined in secre...
1,159	768_chapter_28	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Zillah enters the bedroom on the fifth morning of Nelly's imprisonment, telling her that the village gossip has both Cathy and Nelly being lost in the marshes. Nelly finds Linton, who tells her that Cathy is being held prisoner and cannot be released. Unable to get Cathy free and unwilling to face Heathcliff, Nelly ret...	[ "On the fifth morning, or rather afternoon, a different step\napproached--lighter and shorter; and, this time, the person entered the\nroom. It was Zillah; donned in her scarlet shawl, with a black silk\nbonnet on her head, and a willow-basket swung to her arm.", "'Eh, dear! Mrs. Dean!' she exclaimed. 'Well! t...
1,160	768_chapter_29	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Heathcliff arrives to escort Cathy home, informing her that he punished Linton for his role in Cathy's escape. He refuses to allow Cathy to live at the Grange because he wants her to work for her keep, especially after Linton dies. Legally, both Linton and Heathcliff have greater claims to the Grange; thus, Cathy has n...	[ "The evening after the funeral, my young lady and I were seated in the\nlibrary; now musing mournfully--one of us despairingly--on our loss, now\nventuring conjectures as to the gloomy future.", "We had just agreed the best destiny which could await Catherine would be\na permission to continue resident at the Gra...
1,161	768_chapter_30	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	This chapter is the end of Nelly's narrative: Zillah now serves as Nelly's source of information about Cathy. Following Heathcliff's orders, Zillah refused to help Cathy when she first came to Wuthering Heights; Hareton was not able to do anything for her, either. Until the day Linton dies, Cathy tends to him herself. ...	[ "I have paid a visit to the Heights, but I have not seen her since she\nleft: Joseph held the door in his hand when I called to ask after her,\nand wouldn't let me pass. He said Mrs. Linton was 'thrang,' and the\nmaster was not in. Zillah has told me something of the way they go on,\notherwise I should hardly kno...
1,162	768_chapter_31	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Lockwood makes a trip to Wuthering Heights and carries a note from Nelly to Cathy. Hareton takes the note at first, but noticing Cathy's tears, returns it to her. She in turn still treats him coolly and makes fun of his attempts at reading. Embarrassed, Hareton flings his books into the fire. When Heathcliff returns, h...	[ "Yesterday was bright, calm, and frosty. I went to the Heights as I\nproposed: my housekeeper entreated me to bear a little note from her to\nher young lady, and I did not refuse, for the worthy woman was not\nconscious of anything odd in her request. The front door stood open, but\nthe jealous gate was fastened,...
1,163	768_chapter_32	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Six months later, Lockwood is in the area and returns to the Grange, only to find that Nelly is now living at Wuthering Heights. He travels there, and Nelly tells him what has happened since Lockwood left. Two weeks after Lockwood departed from the Grange, Nelly was summoned to Wuthering Heights to be Cathy's companion...	[ "1802.--This September I was invited to devastate the moors of a friend in\nthe north, and on my journey to his abode, I unexpectedly came within\nfifteen miles of Gimmerton. The ostler at a roadside public-house was\nholding a pail of water to refresh my horses, when a cart of very green\noats, newly reaped, pass...
1,164	768_chapter_33	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	At breakfast the next morning, Hareton takes Cathy's side in an argument against Heathcliff. Heathcliff is about to strike her, but as he looks into Cathy's eyes, he controls himself. Later that night, he sees Hareton and Cathy sitting together. Cathy's eyes and Hareton's entire being remind him of Catherine. At this m...	[ "On the morrow of that Monday, Earnshaw being still unable to follow his\nordinary employments, and therefore remaining about the house, I speedily\nfound it would be impracticable to retain my charge beside me, as\nheretofore. She got downstairs before me, and out into the garden, where\nshe had seen her cousin p...
1,165	768_chapter_34	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Heathcliff continues to seek solitude and only eats once a day. One night, a few days later, he leaves and is out all night. When he returns in the morning, Cathy remarks that he is actually quite pleasant. He rejects all food. When Nelly tries to encourage him to send for a minister, he scoffs at her and reminds her o...	[ "For some days after that evening Mr. Heathcliff shunned meeting us at\nmeals; yet he would not consent formally to exclude Hareton and Cathy. He\nhad an aversion to yielding so completely to his feelings, choosing\nrather to absent himself; and eating once in twenty-four hours seemed\nsufficient sustenance for hi...
1,132	768_chapter_i	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	But Mr. Heathcliff forms a singular contrast to his abode and style of living. He is a dark-skinned gypsy in aspect, in dress and manners a gentleman. Writing in his diary in 1801, Lockwood describes his first days as a tenant at Thrushcross Grange, an isolated manor in thinly populated Yorkshire. Shortly after arrivin...	[ "1801.--I have just returned from a visit to my landlord--the solitary\nneighbour that I shall be troubled with. This is certainly a beautiful\ncountry! In all England, I do not believe that I could have fixed on a\nsituation so completely removed from the stir of society. A perfect\nmisanthropist's heaven: and ...
1,133	768_chapter_ii	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	On a chilly afternoon not long after his first visit, Lockwood plans to lounge before the fire in his study, but he finds a servant dustily sweeping out the fireplace there, so instead he makes the four-mile walk to Wuthering Heights, arriving just as a light snow begins to fall. He knocks, but no one lets him in, and ...	[ "Yesterday afternoon set in misty and cold. I had half a mind to spend it\nby my study fire, instead of wading through heath and mud to Wuthering\nHeights. On coming up from dinner, however, (N.B.--I dine between twelve\nand one o'clock; the housekeeper, a matronly lady, taken as a fixture\nalong with the house, ...
1,134	768_chapter_iii	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Catherine Earnshaw. Catherine Heathcliff. Catherine Linton. a glare of white letters started from the dark, as vivid as spectres--the air swarmed with Catherines. Zillah leads Lockwood to an out-of-the-way room from which Heathcliff has forbidden all visitors. He notices that someone has scratched words into the paint ...	[ "While leading the way upstairs, she recommended that I should hide the\ncandle, and not make a noise; for her master had an odd notion about the\nchamber she would put me in, and never let anybody lodge there willingly.\nI asked the reason. She did not know, she answered: she had only lived\nthere a year or two; ...
1,135	768_chapter_iv	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Having rejected human contact the day before, Lockwood now becomes lonely. When his housekeeper, Nelly Dean, brings him his supper, he bids her sit and tell him the history of the people at Wuthering Heights. She attempts to clarify the family relationships, explaining that the young Catherine whom Lockwood met at Wuth...	[ "What vain weathercocks we are! I, who had determined to hold myself\nindependent of all social intercourse, and thanked my stars that, at\nlength, I had lighted on a spot where it was next to impracticable--I,\nweak wretch, after maintaining till dusk a struggle with low spirits and\nsolitude, was finally compell...
1,136	768_chapter_v	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Time passes, and Mr. Earnshaw grows frail and weak. Disgusted by the conflict between Heathcliff and Hindley, he sends Hindley away to college. Joseph's fanatical religious beliefs appeal to Mr. Earnshaw as he nears the end of his life, and the old servant exerts more and more sway over his master. Soon, however, Mr. E...	[ "In the course of time Mr. Earnshaw began to fail. He had been active and\nhealthy, yet his strength left him suddenly; and when he was confined to\nthe chimney-corner he grew grievously irritable. A nothing vexed him;\nand suspected slights of his authority nearly threw him into fits. This\nwas especially to be re...
1,137	768_chapter_vi	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Hindley and his new wife, a simpering, silly woman named Frances, return to Wuthering Heights in time for Mr. Earnshaw's funeral. Hindley immediately begins to take his revenge on Heathcliff, declaring that Heathcliff no longer will be allowed an education and instead will spend his days working in the fields like a co...	[ "Mr. Hindley came home to the funeral; and--a thing that amazed us, and\nset the neighbours gossiping right and left--he brought a wife with him.\nWhat she was, and where she was born, he never informed us: probably, she\nhad neither money nor name to recommend her, or he would scarcely have\nkept the union from hi...
1,138	768_chapter_vii	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Catherine spends five weeks recuperating at the Grange. Mrs. Linton determines to transform the girl into a young lady and spends her time educating Catherine in manners and social graces. Catherine returns to Wuthering Heights at Christmastime, wearing a lovely dress. Hindley says that Heathcliff may greet Catherine "...	[ "Cathy stayed at Thrushcross Grange five weeks: till Christmas. By that\ntime her ankle was thoroughly cured, and her manners much improved. The\nmistress visited her often in the interval, and commenced her plan of\nreform by trying to raise her self-respect with fine clothes and\nflattery, which she took readily;...
1,139	768_chapter_viii	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Nelly skips ahead a bit in her story, to the summer of 1778, several months after the Lintons' visit and twenty-three years before Lockwood's arrival at the Grange. Frances gives birth to a baby boy, Hareton, but she dies not long afterwards, the strain of childbirth having aggravated her chronic consumption. Hindley a...	[ "On the morning of a fine June day my first bonny little nursling, and the\nlast of the ancient Earnshaw stock, was born. We were busy with the hay\nin a far-away field, when the girl that usually brought our breakfasts\ncame running an hour too soon across the meadow and up the lane, calling\nme as she ran.", "...
1,140	768_chapter_ix	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Heathcliff. shall never know how I love him. he's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. Nelly is in the midst of hiding Hareton from Hindley when Hindley bolts in and seizes the boy. Stumbling drunkenly, he accidentally drops Hareton over the banister. Heathcliff is there to ...	[ "He entered, vociferating oaths dreadful to hear; and caught me in the act\nof stowing his son away in the kitchen cupboard. Hareton was impressed\nwith a wholesome terror of encountering either his wild beast's fondness\nor his madman's rage; for in one he ran a chance of being squeezed and\nkissed to death, and ...
1,141	768_chapter_x	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Lockwood becomes sick after his traumatic experience at Wuthering Heights, and--as he writes in his diary--spends four weeks in misery. Heathcliff pays him a visit, and afterward Lockwood summons Nelly Dean and demands to know the rest of her story. How did Heathcliff, the oppressed and reviled outcast, make his fortun...	[ "A charming introduction to a hermit's life! Four weeks' torture,\ntossing, and sickness! Oh, these bleak winds and bitter northern skies,\nand impassable roads, and dilatory country surgeons! And oh, this dearth\nof the human physiognomy! and, worse than all, the terrible intimation of\nKenneth that I need not ...
1,142	768_chapter_xi	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Nelly travels to Wuthering Heights to talk with Hindley, but instead she finds Hareton, who throws stones at her and curses. Nelly learns from Hareton that Heathcliff has taught the boy to swear at his father, Hindley, and has forbidden the curate, who offered to educate Hareton, to set foot on the property. Heathcliff...	[ "Sometimes, while meditating on these things in solitude, I've got up in a\nsudden terror, and put on my bonnet to go see how all was at the farm.\nI've persuaded my conscience that it was a duty to warn him how people\ntalked regarding his ways; and then I've recollected his confirmed bad\nhabits, and, hopeless of...
1,143	768_chapter_xii	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	At last, Catherine permits the servants to bring her food. Hysterical, she believes that she is dying, and cannot understand why Edgar has not come to her. She rants about her childhood with Heathcliff on the moors, and speaks obsessively about death. Nelly, worried that her mistress will catch a chill, refuses to open...	[ "While Miss Linton moped about the park and garden, always silent, and\nalmost always in tears; and her brother shut himself up among books that\nhe never opened--wearying, I guessed, with a continual vague expectation\nthat Catherine, repenting her conduct, would come of her own accord to\nask pardon, and seek a r...
1,144	768_chapter_xiii	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Edgar and Nelly spend two months nursing Catherine through her illness, and, though she never entirely recovers, she learns that she has become pregnant. Six weeks after Isabella and Heathcliff's marriage, Isabella sends a letter to Edgar begging his forgiveness. When Edgar ignores her pleas, she sends a letter to Nell...	[ "For two months the fugitives remained absent; in those two months, Mrs.\nLinton encountered and conquered the worst shock of what was denominated\na brain fever. No mother could have nursed an only child more devotedly\nthan Edgar tended her. Day and night he was watching, and patiently\nenduring all the annoyan...
1,145	768_chapter_xiv	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Nelly grants Isabella's request and goes to the manor, but Edgar continues to spurn his sister's appeals for forgiveness. When Nelly arrives, Heathcliff presses her for news of Catherine and asks if he may come see her. Nelly refuses to allow him to come to the Grange, however, and, enraged, Heathcliff threatens that h...	[ "As soon as I had perused this epistle I went to the master, and informed\nhim that his sister had arrived at the Heights, and sent me a letter\nexpressing her sorrow for Mrs. Linton's situation, and her ardent desire\nto see him; with a wish that he would transmit to her, as early as\npossible, some token of forgi...
1,146	768_chapter_xv	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Four days after visiting Wuthering Heights, Nelly waits for Edgar to leave for church, and then takes the opportunity to give Heathcliff's letter to the ailing Catherine. Catherine has become so weak that she cannot even hold the letter, but nearly as soon as Nelly tells her that it is from Heathcliff, Heathcliff himse...	[ "Another week over--and I am so many days nearer health, and spring! I\nhave now heard all my neighbour's history, at different sittings, as the\nhousekeeper could spare time from more important occupations. I'll\ncontinue it in her own words, only a little condensed. She is, on the\nwhole, a very fair narrator,...
1,147	768_chapter_xvi	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	At midnight, Catherine gives birth to young Catherine two months prematurely. She dies within two hours of giving birth. Nelly solemnly declares that her soul has gone home to God. When Nelly goes to tell Heathcliff what has happened, he seems to know already. He curses Catherine for the pain she has caused him, and pl...	[ "About twelve o'clock that night was born the Catherine you saw at\nWuthering Heights: a puny, seven-months' child; and two hours after the\nmother died, having never recovered sufficient consciousness to miss\nHeathcliff, or know Edgar. The latter's distraction at his bereavement\nis a subject too painful to be d...
1,148	768_chapter_xvii	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Not long after the funeral, Isabella arrives at Thrushcross Grange, out of breath and laughing hysterically. She has come at a time when she knows Edgar will be asleep, to ask Nelly for help. Isabella reports that the conflict between Hindley and Heathcliff has become violent. Hindley, she says, tried to stay sober for...	[ "That Friday made the last of our fine days for a month. In the evening\nthe weather broke: the wind shifted from south to north-east, and brought\nrain first, and then sleet and snow. On the morrow one could hardly\nimagine that there had been three weeks of summer: the primroses and\ncrocuses were hidden under wi...
1,149	768_chapter_xviii	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Young Catherine grows up at Thrushcross Grange, and by the time she is thirteen she is a beautiful, intelligent girl, but often strong-willed and temperamental. Her father, mindful of the tormented history of the neighboring manor, does not allow young Catherine off the grounds of Thrushcross Grange, and she grows up w...	[ "The twelve years, continued Mrs. Dean, following that dismal period were\nthe happiest of my life: my greatest troubles in their passage rose from\nour little lady's trifling illnesses, which she had to experience in\ncommon with all children, rich and poor. For the rest, after the first\nsix months, she grew like...
1,150	768_chapter_xix	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Edgar brings young Linton to the Grange, and Catherine is disappointed to find her cousin a pale, weak, whiny young man. Not long after he arrives, Joseph appears, saying that Heathcliff is determined to take possession of his son. Edgar promises that he will bring Linton to Wuthering Heights the following day	[ "A letter, edged with black, announced the day of my master's return.\nIsabella was dead; and he wrote to bid me get mourning for his daughter,\nand arrange a room, and other accommodations, for his youthful nephew.\nCatherine ran wild with joy at the idea of welcoming her father back; and\nindulged most sanguine a...
1,151	768_chapter_xx	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Nelly receives orders to escort the boy to the Heights in the morning. On the way, she tries to comfort Linton by telling him reassuring lies about his father. When they arrive, however, Heathcliff does not even pretend to love his son--he calls Linton's mother a slut, and he says that Linton is his property. Linton pl...	[ "To obviate the danger of this threat being fulfilled, Mr. Linton\ncommissioned me to take the boy home early, on Catherine's pony; and,\nsaid he--'As we shall now have no influence over his destiny, good or\nbad, you must say nothing of where he is gone to my daughter: she cannot\nassociate with him hereafter, and...
1,152	768_chapter_xxi	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Young Catherine despairs over her cousin's sudden departure from Thrushcross Grange. Nelly tries to keep up with the news of young Linton, quizzing the housekeeper at Wuthering Heights whenever she meets her in the nearby town of Gimmerton. She learns that Heathcliff loathes his sniveling son and cannot bear to be alon...	[ "We had sad work with little Cathy that day: she rose in high glee, eager\nto join her cousin, and such passionate tears and lamentations followed\nthe news of his departure that Edgar himself was obliged to soothe her,\nby affirming he should come back soon: he added, however, 'if I can get\nhim'; and there were n...
1,153	768_chapter_xxii	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Edgar's health begins to fail, and, as a result, he spends less time with Catherine. Nelly attempts in vain to fill the companionship role formerly played by the girl's father. One winter day, during a walk in the garden, Catherine climbs the wall and stretches for some fruit on a tree. In the process, her hat falls of...	[ "Summer drew to an end, and early autumn: it was past Michaelmas, but the\nharvest was late that year, and a few of our fields were still uncleared.\nMr. Linton and his daughter would frequently walk out among the reapers;\nat the carrying of the last sheaves they stayed till dusk, and the\nevening happening to be ...
1,154	768_chapter_xxiii	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The following morning, Catherine and Nelly ride in the rain to Wuthering Heights, where they find Linton engaged in his customary whining. He speaks to Catherine about the possibility of marriage. Annoyed, Catherine shoves his chair in a fit of temper. Linton begins to cough and says that Catherine has assaulted him an...	[ "The rainy night had ushered in a misty morning--half frost, half\ndrizzle--and temporary brooks crossed our path--gurgling from the\nuplands. My feet were thoroughly wetted; I was cross and low; exactly\nthe humour suited for making the most of these disagreeable things. We\nentered the farm-house by the kitchen...
1,155	768_chapter_xxiv	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	After Nelly recuperates, she notices Catherine's suspicious behavior and quickly discovers where she has been spending her evenings. Catherine tells Nelly the story of her visits to Wuthering Heights, including one incident in which Hareton proves to her that he can read a name inscribed above the manor's entrance: it ...	[ "At the close of three weeks I was able to quit my chamber and move about\nthe house. And on the first occasion of my sitting up in the evening I\nasked Catherine to read to me, because my eyes were weak. We were in the\nlibrary, the master having gone to bed: she consented, rather\nunwillingly, I fancied; and im...
1,156	768_chapter_xxv	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	At this point, Nelly interrupts her story to explain to Lockwood its chronology: the events that she has just described happened the previous winter, only a little over a year ago. Nelly says that the previous year, it never crossed her mind that she would entertain a stranger by telling him the story. But she wonders ...	[ "'These things happened last winter, sir,' said Mrs. Dean; 'hardly more\nthan a year ago. Last winter, I did not think, at another twelve months'\nend, I should be amusing a stranger to the family with relating them!\nYet, who knows how long you'll be a stranger? You're too young to rest\nalways contented, living...
1,157	768_chapter_xxvi	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	When Catherine and Nelly ride to their meeting with Linton, they do not find him in the agreed-upon spot--he has not ventured far from Wuthering Heights. He appears frail and weak, but he insists that his health is improving. The youth seems nervous and looks fearfully over his shoulder at the house. At the end of thei...	[ "Summer was already past its prime, when Edgar reluctantly yielded his\nassent to their entreaties, and Catherine and I set out on our first ride\nto join her cousin. It was a close, sultry day: devoid of sunshine, but\nwith a sky too dappled and hazy to threaten rain: and our place of\nmeeting had been fixed at t...
1,158	768_chapter_xxvii	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	During the next week, Edgar's health grows consistently worse. Worried for her father, young Catherine only reluctantly rides to her meeting with Linton on the moors. Nelly comes with her. The cousins talk, and Linton seems even more nervous than usual. He reveals that his father is forcing him to court Catherine, and ...	[ "Seven days glided away, every one marking its course by the henceforth\nrapid alteration of Edgar Linton's state. The havoc that months had\npreviously wrought was now emulated by the inroads of hours. Catherine\nwe would fain have deluded yet; but her own quick spirit refused to\ndelude her: it divined in secre...
1,159	768_chapter_xxviii	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	At last, the housekeeper, Zillah, frees Nelly from her imprisonment, telling her that the villagers in Gimmerton have spread the news that both Nelly and Catherine have been lost in Blackhorse Marsh. Nelly searches through the house until she finds Linton, who tells her that Catherine is locked away in another room. Th...	[ "On the fifth morning, or rather afternoon, a different step\napproached--lighter and shorter; and, this time, the person entered the\nroom. It was Zillah; donned in her scarlet shawl, with a black silk\nbonnet on her head, and a willow-basket swung to her arm.", "'Eh, dear! Mrs. Dean!' she exclaimed. 'Well! t...
1,160	768_chapter_xxix	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	"I got the sexton, who was digging Linton's grave, to remove the earth off her coffin lid, and I opened it. Heathcliff appears at Thrushcross Grange shortly after the funeral in order to take young Catherine to her new home. He tells her that he has punished Linton for having helped her escape, and says that she will h...	[ "The evening after the funeral, my young lady and I were seated in the\nlibrary; now musing mournfully--one of us despairingly--on our loss, now\nventuring conjectures as to the gloomy future.", "We had just agreed the best destiny which could await Catherine would be\na permission to continue resident at the Gra...
1,161	768_chapter_xxx	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Nelly has not seen Catherine since she left, and her only source of information about her is Zillah. Zillah says that Heathcliff refused to allow anyone at Wuthering Heights to be kind or helpful to Catherine after her arrival, and that Catherine tended to Linton by herself until the day he died. Since Linton's death, ...	[ "I have paid a visit to the Heights, but I have not seen her since she\nleft: Joseph held the door in his hand when I called to ask after her,\nand wouldn't let me pass. He said Mrs. Linton was 'thrang,' and the\nmaster was not in. Zillah has told me something of the way they go on,\notherwise I should hardly kno...
1,162	768_chapter_xxxi	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Lockwood, true to his word, travels to Wuthering Heights to end his tenancy at the Grange. He brings young Catherine a note from Nelly. Hareton first appropriates the note, but when Catherine cries, he gives it back to her. He has been struggling to learn to read and to acquire an education. Meanwhile, Catherine has be...	[ "Yesterday was bright, calm, and frosty. I went to the Heights as I\nproposed: my housekeeper entreated me to bear a little note from her to\nher young lady, and I did not refuse, for the worthy woman was not\nconscious of anything odd in her request. The front door stood open, but\nthe jealous gate was fastened,...
1,163	768_chapter_xxxii	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	About six months later--Lockwood remained at the Grange until late winter, 1802, and it is now September, 1802--Lockwood writes in his diary that he has traveled again to the vicinity of the moors. There, he tries to pay a visit to Nelly at Thrushcross Grange, but discovers that she has moved back to Wuthering Heights....	[ "1802.--This September I was invited to devastate the moors of a friend in\nthe north, and on my journey to his abode, I unexpectedly came within\nfifteen miles of Gimmerton. The ostler at a roadside public-house was\nholding a pail of water to refresh my horses, when a cart of very green\noats, newly reaped, pass...
1,164	768_chapter_xxxiii	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	"In every cloud, in every tree--filling the air at night, and caught by glimpses in every object by day, I am surrounded with her image. At breakfast the morning after Catherine gives Hareton the book, she and Heathcliff become embroiled in an argument over her inheritance and her relationship with Hareton. Heathcliff ...	[ "On the morrow of that Monday, Earnshaw being still unable to follow his\nordinary employments, and therefore remaining about the house, I speedily\nfound it would be impracticable to retain my charge beside me, as\nheretofore. She got downstairs before me, and out into the garden, where\nshe had seen her cousin p...
1,165	768_chapter_xxxiv	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	As time passes, Heathcliff becomes more and more solitary and begins to eat less and less, eventually taking only one meal a day. A few days after the incident at breakfast, he spends the entire night out walking, and he returns in a strange, wildly ebullient mood. He tells Nelly that last night he stood on the thresho...	[ "For some days after that evening Mr. Heathcliff shunned meeting us at\nmeals; yet he would not consent formally to exclude Hareton and Cathy. He\nhad an aversion to yielding so completely to his feelings, choosing\nrather to absent himself; and eating once in twenty-four hours seemed\nsufficient sustenance for hi...
1,132	768_chapter_1	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	The novel begins with Mr. Lockwood's visit to Wuthering Heights, on the Yorkshire moors, in the year of 1801. He goes there from London in order to introduce himself to his landlord, for he has rented a neighboring home, Thrushcross Grange, owned by Heathcliff. In his diary Lockwood has recorded his observations about ...	[ "1801.--I have just returned from a visit to my landlord--the solitary\nneighbour that I shall be troubled with. This is certainly a beautiful\ncountry! In all England, I do not believe that I could have fixed on a\nsituation so completely removed from the stir of society. A perfect\nmisanthropist's heaven: and ...
1,133	768_chapter_2	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	This chapter describes Mr. Lockwood's second visit to Wuthering Heights on the next day. It is a misty and cold afternoon as he makes his way through four miles of mud to the house of his landlord. When he knocks at the door, he hears the howling of dogs. Joseph shoves his head through a window in the barn and tells Lo...	[ "Yesterday afternoon set in misty and cold. I had half a mind to spend it\nby my study fire, instead of wading through heath and mud to Wuthering\nHeights. On coming up from dinner, however, (N.B.--I dine between twelve\nand one o'clock; the housekeeper, a matronly lady, taken as a fixture\nalong with the house, ...
1,134	768_chapter_3	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Zillah takes Lockwood to a room upstairs and informs him that her master never permits anyone to stay there willingly. In the room, he finds some old books and opens them. In one, Lockwood finds every available space covered with a childish scrawl. In the writing, he discovers references to a dead father and to the cru...	[ "While leading the way upstairs, she recommended that I should hide the\ncandle, and not make a noise; for her master had an odd notion about the\nchamber she would put me in, and never let anybody lodge there willingly.\nI asked the reason. She did not know, she answered: she had only lived\nthere a year or two; ...
1,135	768_chapter_4	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	On the following night Lockwood requests that his housekeeper, Mrs. Dean, tell him something about Heathcliff and his family. Nelly Dean reveals that before coming to the Grange to work for the Lintons, she worked at the Heights for eighteen years. After fetching some hot gruel for her master and a little sewing for he...	[ "What vain weathercocks we are! I, who had determined to hold myself\nindependent of all social intercourse, and thanked my stars that, at\nlength, I had lighted on a spot where it was next to impracticable--I,\nweak wretch, after maintaining till dusk a struggle with low spirits and\nsolitude, was finally compell...
1,136	768_chapter_5	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	As the years go by, Mr. Earnshaw becomes an invalid. He is still, however, protective of Heathcliff, whom he prefers over his own son Hindley. The old man is easily angered whenever Heathcliff is abused, and this only serves to make relations worse between Heathcliff and Hindley. At last, following the curate's advice,...	[ "In the course of time Mr. Earnshaw began to fail. He had been active and\nhealthy, yet his strength left him suddenly; and when he was confined to\nthe chimney-corner he grew grievously irritable. A nothing vexed him;\nand suspected slights of his authority nearly threw him into fits. This\nwas especially to be re...
1,137	768_chapter_6	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Hindley comes to his father's funeral with a young new wife, whose name is Frances. At first she shows a great affection for Catherine, but the attachment soon fades. She also expresses her dislike for Heathcliff, an animosity which serves to heat up the old hatred Hindley feels for him. He begins to treat Heathcliff l...	[ "Mr. Hindley came home to the funeral; and--a thing that amazed us, and\nset the neighbours gossiping right and left--he brought a wife with him.\nWhat she was, and where she was born, he never informed us: probably, she\nhad neither money nor name to recommend her, or he would scarcely have\nkept the union from hi...
1,138	768_chapter_7	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Catherine remains at Thrushcross Grange for five weeks and returns home at Christmas. During this period her manners have improved considerably. Additionally, she seems more beautiful and more gentle. In contrast, Heathcliff has become more unkempt than ever during her absence. On her return she kisses Heathcliff, but ...	[ "Cathy stayed at Thrushcross Grange five weeks: till Christmas. By that\ntime her ankle was thoroughly cured, and her manners much improved. The\nmistress visited her often in the interval, and commenced her plan of\nreform by trying to raise her self-respect with fine clothes and\nflattery, which she took readily;...
1,139	768_chapter_8	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	In the summer of 1778, Frances, Hindley's wife, gives birth to a son. One week later she dies of tuberculosis. The child is given into Nelly Dean's complete charge. Hindley "gives himself up to reckless dissipation" and shows little interest in his son. His tyrannical conduct drive away most of the servants; only Nelly...	[ "On the morning of a fine June day my first bonny little nursling, and the\nlast of the ancient Earnshaw stock, was born. We were busy with the hay\nin a far-away field, when the girl that usually brought our breakfasts\ncame running an hour too soon across the meadow and up the lane, calling\nme as she ran.", "...
1,140	768_chapter_9	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	When he is drunk, Hindley Earnshaw accidentally drops Hareton from the top of the staircase. Heathcliff, arriving at the critical moment, follows a natural impulse and catches the child in his arms. Later, he regrets his act, realizing the pain the boy's death would have caused his enemy, Hindley. Later in the kitchen,...	[ "He entered, vociferating oaths dreadful to hear; and caught me in the act\nof stowing his son away in the kitchen cupboard. Hareton was impressed\nwith a wholesome terror of encountering either his wild beast's fondness\nor his madman's rage; for in one he ran a chance of being squeezed and\nkissed to death, and ...
1,141	768_chapter_10	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	After Catherine's arrival at Thrushcross Grange, everything runs smoothly for awhile; however, the young couple's conjugal bliss soon ends. One autumn night, six months after the marriage, Heathcliff visits Thrushcross Grange. He asks Nelly to fetch her mistress immediately. She merely informs Cathy that a visitor from...	[ "A charming introduction to a hermit's life! Four weeks' torture,\ntossing, and sickness! Oh, these bleak winds and bitter northern skies,\nand impassable roads, and dilatory country surgeons! And oh, this dearth\nof the human physiognomy! and, worse than all, the terrible intimation of\nKenneth that I need not ...
1,142	768_chapter_11	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	When Nelly visits the Heights, the young Hareton meets her at the gate and welcomes her with a string of curses. She learns that Heathcliff has taught him to curse and to despise Hindley, his father. Heathcliff is also responsible for Hareton's lessons with the curate coming to an end. Obviously, he is doing to Hareton...	[ "Sometimes, while meditating on these things in solitude, I've got up in a\nsudden terror, and put on my bonnet to go see how all was at the farm.\nI've persuaded my conscience that it was a duty to warn him how people\ntalked regarding his ways; and then I've recollected his confirmed bad\nhabits, and, hopeless of...
1,143	768_chapter_12	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Catherine finally ends her seclusion on the third day. Thinking she is dying, she asks for water and gruel. She also inquires about her husband. When Nelly tells her that he is in the library, she loses all self-control and behaves like a mad woman. In her delirium, Catherine speaks of Wuthering Heights and of Heathcli...	[ "While Miss Linton moped about the park and garden, always silent, and\nalmost always in tears; and her brother shut himself up among books that\nhe never opened--wearying, I guessed, with a continual vague expectation\nthat Catherine, repenting her conduct, would come of her own accord to\nask pardon, and seek a r...
1,144	768_chapter_13	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Heathcliff and Isabella are gone for two weeks. In the meantime, Cathy's health improves under the devoted care of her husband; still the doctor knows that her condition is very fragile. Her recovery is now more important than ever because she is expecting a baby. Although Cathy shows no emotions over her pregnancy, Ed...	[ "For two months the fugitives remained absent; in those two months, Mrs.\nLinton encountered and conquered the worst shock of what was denominated\na brain fever. No mother could have nursed an only child more devotedly\nthan Edgar tended her. Day and night he was watching, and patiently\nenduring all the annoyan...
1,145	768_chapter_14	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Nelly informs her master of Isabella's letter, and Edgar grants permission for her to visit the Heights. When Nelly calls on Isabella, she finds her pale and listless. Isabella is extremely disappointed that Nelly brings no word from her brother. During Nelly's visit, Heathcliff insults and humiliates Isabella, braggin...	[ "As soon as I had perused this epistle I went to the master, and informed\nhim that his sister had arrived at the Heights, and sent me a letter\nexpressing her sorrow for Mrs. Linton's situation, and her ardent desire\nto see him; with a wish that he would transmit to her, as early as\npossible, some token of forgi...
1,146	768_chapter_15	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Another week passes in Lockwood's life, and his health is improving. He asks Nelly to continue her story of the characters surrounding Wuthering Heights. She begins her tale again by revealing that she manages to give the letter from Heathcliff to her mistress while Edgar and the other servants are at church. Catherine...	[ "Another week over--and I am so many days nearer health, and spring! I\nhave now heard all my neighbour's history, at different sittings, as the\nhousekeeper could spare time from more important occupations. I'll\ncontinue it in her own words, only a little condensed. She is, on the\nwhole, a very fair narrator,...
1,147	768_chapter_16	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	On the night of Heathcliff's visit, Catherine gives birth to a baby girl and then dies. Edgar's sorrow is great, for he has lost his wife without gaining an heir to his property. Nelly breaks the news of the birth and death to Heathcliff. After her master retires, she admits Heathcliff in the house to bid his final far...	[ "About twelve o'clock that night was born the Catherine you saw at\nWuthering Heights: a puny, seven-months' child; and two hours after the\nmother died, having never recovered sufficient consciousness to miss\nHeathcliff, or know Edgar. The latter's distraction at his bereavement\nis a subject too painful to be d...
1,148	768_chapter_17	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	One evening Isabella arrives breathless at Thrushcross Grange. She has run the whole way from Wuthering Heights, trying to get out of Heathcliff's reach. Isabella then proceeds to narrate the latest occurrences at the Heights. On the night following Catherine's funeral, Heathcliff returns home late, and Hindley tries t...	[ "That Friday made the last of our fine days for a month. In the evening\nthe weather broke: the wind shifted from south to north-east, and brought\nrain first, and then sleet and snow. On the morrow one could hardly\nimagine that there had been three weeks of summer: the primroses and\ncrocuses were hidden under wi...
1,149	768_chapter_18	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Until she is thirteen years of age, Cathy never steps outside the grounds of Thrushcross Grange unaccompanied. She, therefore, knows nothing of Wuthering Heights and Heathcliff. One day Mr. Linton leaves home because Isabella is dying; she has requested that her brother visit her and take charge of her son, Linton. Whe...	[ "The twelve years, continued Mrs. Dean, following that dismal period were\nthe happiest of my life: my greatest troubles in their passage rose from\nour little lady's trifling illnesses, which she had to experience in\ncommon with all children, rich and poor. For the rest, after the first\nsix months, she grew like...
1,150	768_chapter_19	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Edgar writes a letter announcing Isabella's death. That evening Edgar arrives with his sickly nephew, Linton. Cathy is delighted to meet him. The same evening Joseph comes to fetch Linton, but Edgar refuses to send Linton to Wuthering Heights immediately because the boy is in such poor health. Joseph refuses to leave w...	[ "A letter, edged with black, announced the day of my master's return.\nIsabella was dead; and he wrote to bid me get mourning for his daughter,\nand arrange a room, and other accommodations, for his youthful nephew.\nCatherine ran wild with joy at the idea of welcoming her father back; and\nindulged most sanguine a...
1,151	768_chapter_20	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Early the next morning, Edgar plans to send Linton to Wuthering Heights, accompanied by Nelly. Before his departure, the boy is anxious and extremely reluctant to leave his uncle. Finally, Nelly succeeds in coaxing Linton, and they set out on their way to the house of Linton's father. Heathcliff welcomes his son with a...	[ "To obviate the danger of this threat being fulfilled, Mr. Linton\ncommissioned me to take the boy home early, on Catherine's pony; and,\nsaid he--'As we shall now have no influence over his destiny, good or\nbad, you must say nothing of where he is gone to my daughter: she cannot\nassociate with him hereafter, and...
1,152	768_chapter_21	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Cathy is unhappy when she hears that Linton has gone to his father's house. Nelly is also unhappy about the situation. She checks on the boy through the housekeeper at Wuthering Heights and learns that Mr. Heathcliff's dislike for Linton seems to have increased. Cathy turns sixteen. On her birthday, Nelly and she go fo...	[ "We had sad work with little Cathy that day: she rose in high glee, eager\nto join her cousin, and such passionate tears and lamentations followed\nthe news of his departure that Edgar himself was obliged to soothe her,\nby affirming he should come back soon: he added, however, 'if I can get\nhim'; and there were n...
1,153	768_chapter_22	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Mr. Linton's health worsens, and he stays indoors all the time. Cathy is saddened by her father's illness and tries to attend to his needs. She is also sad that she is no longer permitted to correspond with young Linton. One afternoon she goes out with Nelly for a walk, and they meet Heathcliff. He tells Cathy that Lin...	[ "Summer drew to an end, and early autumn: it was past Michaelmas, but the\nharvest was late that year, and a few of our fields were still uncleared.\nMr. Linton and his daughter would frequently walk out among the reapers;\nat the carrying of the last sheaves they stayed till dusk, and the\nevening happening to be ...
1,154	768_chapter_23	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Nelly and Cathy go to the Heights the next day. When they enter, Linton tells his excited cousin not to kiss him, for it would take his breath away. In the conversation that follows, Cathy and Linton engage in a bitter quarrel about whether married men love their wives. The girl insists that they do not, as can be seen...	[ "The rainy night had ushered in a misty morning--half frost, half\ndrizzle--and temporary brooks crossed our path--gurgling from the\nuplands. My feet were thoroughly wetted; I was cross and low; exactly\nthe humour suited for making the most of these disagreeable things. We\nentered the farm-house by the kitchen...
1,155	768_chapter_24	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	When Nelly recovers from her illness, Cathy admits that she has been visiting Linton almost every day and gives her details of her visits to the Heights. She explains that on her second visit she debated with Linton about the most pleasant manner of spending a hot July day. Both had different ideas and found the other'...	[ "At the close of three weeks I was able to quit my chamber and move about\nthe house. And on the first occasion of my sitting up in the evening I\nasked Catherine to read to me, because my eyes were weak. We were in the\nlibrary, the master having gone to bed: she consented, rather\nunwillingly, I fancied; and im...
1,156	768_chapter_25	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Nelly reminds Lockwood that the events she has just recounted happened only a year ago: "These things happened last winter, sir." The frame of Nelly's storytelling and the events of the novel are now falling into place. Despite his own failing health, Edgar is worried about Cathy's future. Although he understands the ...	[ "'These things happened last winter, sir,' said Mrs. Dean; 'hardly more\nthan a year ago. Last winter, I did not think, at another twelve months'\nend, I should be amusing a stranger to the family with relating them!\nYet, who knows how long you'll be a stranger? You're too young to rest\nalways contented, living...
1,157	768_chapter_26	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Cathy and Nelly set out on their ponies to the appointed place to meet Linton. However, they are told by a young boy that they must ride a bit further to meet Master Linton. Riding onward, they come close to Wuthering Heights. There they find Linton is lying on the heather waiting for them. He finds it extremely diffic...	[ "Summer was already past its prime, when Edgar reluctantly yielded his\nassent to their entreaties, and Catherine and I set out on our first ride\nto join her cousin. It was a close, sultry day: devoid of sunshine, but\nwith a sky too dappled and hazy to threaten rain: and our place of\nmeeting had been fixed at t...
1,158	768_chapter_27	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Over the next seven days, Edgar Linton's condition worsens. Cathy begins to fear that her father's death is near. When Thursday arrives, Cathy meets Linton in the appointed spot, but she is worried about her father and soon wishes to return home. Linton then "throw his nerveless frame along the ground" and claims that ...	[ "Seven days glided away, every one marking its course by the henceforth\nrapid alteration of Edgar Linton's state. The havoc that months had\npreviously wrought was now emulated by the inroads of hours. Catherine\nwe would fain have deluded yet; but her own quick spirit refused to\ndelude her: it divined in secre...
1,159	768_chapter_28	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Zillah enters the room where Nelly has been kept for five days in order to give her a message. Heathcliff says that she may now return to the Grange. Before she departs, Nelly learns that Cathy is now married to Linton; she also tries unsuccessfully to take Cathy home with her. Nelly finally leaves, hoping to come back...	[ "On the fifth morning, or rather afternoon, a different step\napproached--lighter and shorter; and, this time, the person entered the\nroom. It was Zillah; donned in her scarlet shawl, with a black silk\nbonnet on her head, and a willow-basket swung to her arm.", "'Eh, dear! Mrs. Dean!' she exclaimed. 'Well! t...
1,160	768_chapter_29	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	After the funeral, Cathy and Nelly sit together in the library consoling each other. Heathcliff enters and informs them that he has rented out the Grange. Cathy is to stay at the Heights and nurse her husband, whether she likes it or not. Nelly is warned not to visit. Heathcliff tells Nelly what he did on the day Edgar...	[ "The evening after the funeral, my young lady and I were seated in the\nlibrary; now musing mournfully--one of us despairingly--on our loss, now\nventuring conjectures as to the gloomy future.", "We had just agreed the best destiny which could await Catherine would be\na permission to continue resident at the Gra...
1,161	768_chapter_30	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	In spite of the warning she received, Nelly pays a visit to Wuthering Heights, but she is not allowed to see Cathy. She does, however, get some news about the girl from Zillah, the housekeeper at the Heights. Zillah has been instructed by her master not to help Cathy in any way; her torture is part of his plan of reven...	[ "I have paid a visit to the Heights, but I have not seen her since she\nleft: Joseph held the door in his hand when I called to ask after her,\nand wouldn't let me pass. He said Mrs. Linton was 'thrang,' and the\nmaster was not in. Zillah has told me something of the way they go on,\notherwise I should hardly kno...
1,162	768_chapter_31	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Lockwood visits the Heights in order to inform Heathcliff of his decision to vacate the Grange. He finds, however, that his landlord is not at home. The visit does give Lockwood the opportunity to observe the behavior of Cathy and Hareton. Lockwood hands over to Cathy a brief note from Nelly. She reads the note eagerly...	[ "Yesterday was bright, calm, and frosty. I went to the Heights as I\nproposed: my housekeeper entreated me to bear a little note from her to\nher young lady, and I did not refuse, for the worthy woman was not\nconscious of anything odd in her request. The front door stood open, but\nthe jealous gate was fastened,...
1,163	768_chapter_32	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	Six months later, Lockwood is traveling north and decides to spend the night at Thrushcross Grange, the house for which he is still paying rent. While there, he plans to meet his landlord and finish all his business with him. Upon his arrival at the Grange, an old woman informs him that Mrs. Dean now lives at the Heigh...	[ "1802.--This September I was invited to devastate the moors of a friend in\nthe north, and on my journey to his abode, I unexpectedly came within\nfifteen miles of Gimmerton. The ostler at a roadside public-house was\nholding a pail of water to refresh my horses, when a cart of very green\noats, newly reaped, pass...
1,164	768_chapter_33	Write a detailed summary of the context provided.	One Monday morning Cathy and Hareton uproot Joseph's favorite currant trees. Heathcliff promptly rebukes them for this act. Cathy retorts that Heathcliff has stolen all their land. He should not be angry with them for just a few yards of earth. Heathcliff is very angry with Cathy, but Hareton comes to her rescue. Howev...	[ "On the morrow of that Monday, Earnshaw being still unable to follow his\nordinary employments, and therefore remaining about the house, I speedily\nfound it would be impracticable to retain my charge beside me, as\nheretofore. She got downstairs before me, and out into the garden, where\nshe had seen her cousin p...

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