Heathcliff became even more his favourite
‘I found him all alone in the busy streets of Liverpool,’Mr Earnshaw explained
whenever to them,‘and I couldn't leave him to die. He can sleep in your room.’But Hindley and Catherine were angry because they had not received any presents,and refused to let the strange child share their room.However Mr Earn-shaw insisted,and little by little the boy became accepted by the family.He was called Heathcliff,as a first and last name.No one ever discovered who his parents had been.
Catnerine and he became great friends,but Hindley hated him,and was often cruel to him.Old Mr Earnshaw was strangely fond of this gipsy child,and frequently punished his son for behaving badly to Heathcliff.Hindley began to be jealous of his father's feelings for Heathcliff,and saw them both as enemies.
This situation could not last.As Mr Earnshaw grew old and ill,Heathcliff became even more his favourite,and Hindley often quarrelled with his father.When Hindley was sent away to study,I hoped that we would have peace in the house.But then it was that old servant Joseph who caused trouble.He tried to persuade his master to be stricter with the children,and was always complaining that Heathcliff and Catherine did not spend enough time studying the
whenever Bible or attending church services.
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