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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Bronte, Emily

Bronte, Emily
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Wuthering Heights: Chapters 8 - 14

Chapter Eight

In June, 1778, Hindley's son Hareton Earnshaw is born, and a few months
later his mother, weakened by her confinement, dies of consumption. With
Frances gone, Hindley grows desperate and gives himself up to reckless
dissipation. Of all the servants, only Nelly and Joseph are able to bear the
master's evil conduct for long, Nelly because she has been given charge of
Hareton, and Joseph because "it was his vocation to be where he had plenty of
wickedness to reprove." Hindley's treatment of Heathcliff is enough ...

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