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| What is the initial description of Ellen Dean? |
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| When Lockwood steps out in chapter 2, how does he describe the hilltop? |
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| The earth was hard with a black frost, and the air made me shiver through every limb |
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| What angry remark does Lockwood throw at the 'wretched inmates' of the Heights? |
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| You deserve perpetual isolation from your species for your churlish inhospitality |
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| What is the initial description of Hareton Earnshaw? |
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| A young man, without coat |
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| How is Cathy Linton first described? |
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| What does Lockwood wrongly assume to be her 'favourites' to be among? |
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| What feature does Lockwood first notice about Cathy? |
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| How does Lockwood describe the face of Cathy? |
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| The most exquisite little face that I have ever had the pleasure of beholding |
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| What comment does Lockwood give on Cathy's eyes? |
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| Had they been agreeable in expression, they would have been irresistible |
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| How does Hareton look at Lockwood at the bottom of page 11? |
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| Looking for all the world as if there were some mortal feud unavenged between us |
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| What question does Cathy pose Lockwood on page 11? |
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| What is Lockwood's response to Cathy's question on page 11? |
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| I shall be glad to have a cup |
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| What physical description does Lockwood give of Hareton in chapter 2? |
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| His thick, brown curls were rough and uncultivated, his whiskers encroached bearishly over his cheeks, and his hands were embrowned like those of a common labourer |
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| How does Lockwood describe Hareton's behaviour towards Cathy (given what he suspects their relative positions to be)? |
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| He showed none of a domestic's assiduity in attending on the lady of the house |
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| What change of opinion does Lockwood have about Heathcliff on meeting him for the second time? |
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| I no longer felt inclined to call Heathcliff a capital fellow |
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| How does Lockwood describe Cathy Linton to Heathcliff? |
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| How does Heathcliff scornfully rebut Lockwood's asking after Mrs. Heathcliff (assumed by him to be Cathy Linton)? |
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| 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 |
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| What does Lockwood say about Cathy Linton's assumed choice in marrying Hareton Earnshaw? |
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| Here is the consequence of being buried alive: she has thrown herself away upon that boor, from sheer ignorance that better individuals existed |
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| What claim does Lockwood make about his own looks? |
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| The look given by Heathcliff to Cathy is seen by Lockwood to be a look of hatred, unless what? |
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| Unless he has a most perverse set of facial muscles that will not, like those of most other people, interpret the language of his soul |
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| What remark on page 14 does Lockwood make to Hareton concerning his relation to Cathy? |
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| You are the favoured possessor of the beneficent fairy |
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| How does Hareton introduce himself to Lockwood? |
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| My name is Hareton Earnshaw - and I'd counsel you to respect it |
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| How does Lockwood feel about the situation in the sitting room on page 14? |
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| I began to feel unmistakeably out of place in that pleasant family circle |
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| How does Lockwood describe the weather on page 14? |
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| Sky and hills mingled in one bitter whirl of wind and suffocating snow |
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| How does Cathy plan to demonstrate 'her progress in the black art'? |
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| I shall soon be competent to make a clear house of it |
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| How is Cathy described by Lockwood having terrorised Joseph with pretend witchcraft? |
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| How is Cathy trapped within Wuthering Heights? |
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| They wouldn't let me go to the end of the garden wall |
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| How does Cathy show compassion for the life of Lockwood on page 17? |
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| A man's life is of more consequence than one evening's neglect of the horses |
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| What does Cathy wish upon Hareton and Heathcliff following their reluctance to accompany Lockwood to the park? |
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| I hope his ghost will haunt you; and I hope Mr Heathcliff will never get another tenant, till the Grange is a ruin |
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| What are the names of the dogs which attack Lockwood at the end of chapter 2? |
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| How does Lockwood describe the two dogs by which he is attacked? |
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| How is the behaviour of the two dogs which attack Lockwood described by him? |
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| The beasts seemed more bent on stretching their paws, and yawning, and flourishing their tails, than devouring me alive |
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| Of what do Lockwood's threats of retaliation ring? |
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| How is Heathcliff's downturn in emotion at the end of chapter 2 described by Lockwood? |
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| His accidental merriment expiring quickly in his habitual moroseness |
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