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WUTHERING HEIGHTS.
CHAPTER VII.
We had sad work with little Cathy that day: she rose in high glee, eager to join her cousin; and such passionate tears and lamentations followed the news of his departure, that Edgar, himself, was obliged to sooth her, by affirming he should come back soon; he added, however, "if I can get him;" and there were no hopes of that.
This promise poorly pacified her; but time was more potent; and though still, at intervals, she inquired of her father, when Linton
