'Wuthering Heights' by Emily Brontë (chapter 16 - 21)

Mr. Lintion’s loss was too painful for him, as he had no orphan and had to write his estate to his daughter. Grief and his hate to Heathcliff made the man a complete hermit: he spent time sitting in his room; he refused from going anywhere as it was possible to meet his enemy. But Edgar couldn’t be in mourning, as that time Cathy, his daughter, became a light in his life.

   Besides, Edgar had another object: as his sister had died and left the son, she asked in her letter to take care about him and the man couldn’t refuse. Cathy was so happy to see her cousin that spent every minute with him. But there happiness wasn’t so long, as known that his son in the Grange, Heathcliff wanted to return him back to Wuthering Heights and nobody could interfere. Cathy was told that Linton went to his father in London. 

   The girl was sixteen, but she didn’t go out of the gate; Mr. Heathcliff and Wuthering Heights didn’t exist for her. One morning Miss Cathy with Helen went for a walk, she wanted to see the nests of the grouse and on her way Mr. Heathcliff met her; he asked them to go to the Heights. The man had only one aim of encouraging the girl to go with him: the young people could fall in love and get married.

   Having come to the estate and seen Hindley, the girl had only one desire to come there every day and sometimes bring her father. Heathcliff, knowing his enemy’s hate and attitude to such a situation, convinced the girl not to tell her father anything. However, the next day the truth came out. Catherine wanted to hear good reasons for every restraint, that’s why Edgar had to tell her almost the whole life story. However, the young lady found the way out and began to write letters to her cousin. Nobody noticed that, except Helen, who burned all letters, received from Heathcliff’s son. Besides, she told Edgar about that and he wrote to Linton that neither he nor Catherine could correspond with each other.