'Wuthering Heights' by Emily Brontë (chapter 8 - 15)

After Mrs. Earnshaw’s death her husband was desperate, but he neither prayed nor cried, he only found comfort in card games. Heathcliff became possessed: he watched for Hindley’s degradation with pleasure and wished revenge; he changed greatly: acquired a slouching gait, ignoble look; his naturally reserved disposition became manic unsociability, and he received pleasure, exciting the aversion of his acquaintance. Cathy, from the opposite, became a haughty, headstrong creature. 

   Once when Mr. Hindley was absent, Catherine received the guests, Isabella and Edgar Linton. The last one’s aim of coming was proposal, which Miss Cathy accepted. There was only one problem: the young lady loved Heathcliff, but to married him meant to degrade. After that nobody saw the young man.

Year later Catherine became Mrs. Linton and moved to Thrushcross Grange. Everybody indulged her, as Edgar was afraid of ruffling her humor. However, everything changed with a Heathcliff’s appearance. The man lived in Wuthering Heights, he was its owner that time, as Mr. Hindley lost all his money in card games and to return them he pledged the estate, but lost it either. He became a frequent guest in the Grange, as Isabella Linton showed sympathy toward a new acquaintance. That became the pretence of bitter enemies' fight, the eyewitness of which was Catherine and who then had no breath for speaking, she stretched herself out stiff, turned up her eyes, her cheeks became blanched and livid. She had a brain fever, besides, the lady was pregnant and that make the situation more complicated. Every time when she saw Heathcliff (he still came to see his friend and Isabella), she began raving. At the same time Edgar tried to put his sister off flirting with that man or he would broke all bonds of between herself and him. That conversation, Cathy’s mortal state didn’t influence the young lady, as she ran off with Heathcliff. 

   That time Mrs. Linton lost her mind and several days later, when nobody closed their eyes, she gave birth to their daughter, Catherine Linton, and not coming to her sense she died. 

Meanwhile, Mrs. Heathcliff knew better her husband and understood that he was like the evil. He bit her only for her presence, she couldn’t bear that no more and a year later ran away in London. There Isabella gave birth to Hindly, their son; ten years later the woman died. The boy moved to Thrushcross Grange to his uncle, but Heathcliff had another plan about his son.