Wuthering Heights, sammanfattning av Chapter 10

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1. Confined by illness, Mr. Lockwood asks Mrs. Dean to resume her account of Heathcliff and Catherine.
2. After six happy months of Catherine’s marriage, Heathcliff returns with changed manners and unexplained wealth, provoking Catherine’s joy and Edgar’s resentment.
3. Heathcliff lodges with Hindley at Wuthering Heights and gradually becomes a regular visitor at the Grange.
4. Isabella confesses her love for Heathcliff, but Catherine and Nelly warn that he is cruel and may want her inheritance.
5. Catherine exposes Isabella’s feelings to Heathcliff and restrains her until Isabella scratches her hand and escapes.
6. Heathcliff expresses violent contempt for Isabella but asks about her inheritance, and Nelly resolves to watch him.

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The question follows his expressions of contempt for Isabella. It gives weight to Catherine’s warning that her property might attract him despite his lack of love.

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