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1  His first words revealed that he did not clear his wife of blame.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XI
2  It was fastened; and, I remember, that accursed Earnshaw and my wife opposed my entrance.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIX
3  I might have seen there was too great a disparity between the ages of the parties to make it likely that they were man and wife.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER II
4  He would have carried his delegated authority to the point of insisting that Edgar Linton should not be buried beside his wife, but in the chapel, with his family.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
5  But, supposing at twelve years old I had been wrenched from the Heights, and every early association, and my all in all, as Heathcliff was at that time, and been converted at a stroke into Mrs. Linton, the lady of Thrushcross Grange, and the wife of a stranger: an exile, and outcast, thenceforth, from what had been my world.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XII
6  Indeed, he would have carpeted and papered a small spare room for a parlour; but his wife expressed such pleasure at the white floor and huge glowing fireplace, at the pewter dishes and delf-case, and dog-kennel, and the wide space there was to move about in where they usually sat, that he thought it unnecessary to her comfort, and so dropped the intention.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VI
7  Grief, and that together, transformed him into a complete hermit: he threw up his office of magistrate, ceased even to attend church, avoided the village on all occasions, and spent a life of entire seclusion within the limits of his park and grounds; only varied by solitary rambles on the moors, and visits to the grave of his wife, mostly at evening, or early morning before other wanderers were abroad.
Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVII