4. Cumbres Borrascosas

Capítulo 4
De vuelta en la Granja de los Tordos, Lockwood pide a la ama de llaves, Nelly Dean, que le cuente la historia de los habitantes de Cumbres Borrascosas.

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Episode Transcript

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Chapter four. The human being Estornadimade like a vane I had decided to
stay out of every human society andto thank my good star for coming to
a place where my purposes could fullygo. I was unhappy with myself I
was forced to fly a flag.After being mortally bored throughout the afternoon and

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pretexting interest in knowing details about myaccommodation, I asked Mrs Dean, when
she brought me dinner, to sitdown for a moment with the purpose of
talking to her a talk that wouldcheer me up or end up boring me.
You lived that I started a longtime ago you told me that sixteen

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years, not eighteen, Mr Vine, in the service of the lady when
you were married at the absence ofthe lady. The gentleman left me as
a housekeeper or a pause. Ithought he liked weasels, but after a
few moments he exclaimed by putting hishands on the gun knees as a meditative
expression was painted on his face.Times have changed a lot since then.

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Of course I said now if youto many modifications and many sorrows, we
will ensure that the conversation falls uponmy landlord' s family. I thought
it must be an entertaining subject.I' d like to know the story
of that pretty one. Widow findout if she is from the country or
not, which seems to me mostlikely, since that rude indigenous does not

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recognize her as of his race andwith that intention I asked Mrs Den if
she knew the reasons why Heathcliff rentedthe tordos farm by reserving a much worse
residence. He' s not richenough I questioned rich. No one knows
how much capital he owns and,moreover, the increase from year to year

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is rich enough to live in ahouse even better than this, but it
is very thrifty in in as soonas he has heard of a good tenant
for the farm, he has notwanted to miss the opportunity to get a
few hundred pounds more. I don' t understand him being so greedy and
when he' s alone in life. She didn' t have a son,

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yes, but she died and MrsHeathcley, that girl is the widow.
Yeah, where she' s fromis my late bachelorette master' s
daughter. Her name was Catalina Linton. I raised her I would have liked
Mr Heathcliff to come and live hereto be together again. Catherine Linton exclaimed
astonished. Then, as I reflected, I realized that the tasting could not

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be the Linton cataline of the roomin which I slept, so the former
inhabitant of that house was called Linton. Yes, sir, and who is
that Hareton hem m Show that liveswith Heathcliff are Harrington relatives and nephew of
the late catalina Linton, the younglady' s cousin. Then, yes,

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her husband was also her cousin,one on the part of mother,
one on the part of father.Heathcliff was married to Mr Linton' s
sister. At the front door ofdrunken peaks. An inscription was announced that
says Air Shawn 1, 500.So I guess this is an old,
very old family, Mr Hareton,it' s your last descendant and catalina,

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the last one of us. Iwant to tell you the Lintons You
' ve been on drunken peaks,forgive me for the curiosity, but I
' d like to know how Ifound Mrs Hathcliy very pretty, but I
think she honestly doesn' t livevery happy. Oh my God, no
wonder and what do you think ofthe master. I think he' s

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a pretty rough guy, Mrs Dean, he' s rough like the edge
of a saw and hard, likethe flint, he must have had a
pretty rough life to get back thatway. You know your story. I
know everything except who her parents wereand where she made her first money.
Hareton' s been left with nothingby the poor boy. He' s

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the only one in the parish whoignores the scam he' s suffered.
Well, Mrs Dean, you'd do a good time if you'
d tell me something about those neighbors, whether I lay down or not.
I' ll be able to sleeplike this, you sit down and let
' s talk for an hour.Oh, yes, sir, I have
a few things to sew. I' ll sit as long as you want,

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but you' re shivering cold andyou need to prepare something to react.
And the good lady hastily went outI settled next to the light.
His head was burning and the restof his body was frozen. He was
excited and felt the nerves very tencisible. I kept worrying about my thoughts and
about the consequences they might have formy health. The incidents of that visit

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to drunken summits. The Keymaker immediatelyreturned bringing a smoking bowl and a seamstress.
He placed the daughter base on thefireplace shelf and sat down with an
air of satisfaction, certainly motivated byfinding such a trusted man before settling here.
She started without expecting me to inviteher back to tell me the story.

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I resided almost always on drunken peaks. My mother would have raised Hindley
Airshaw, Harthton' s father,and I used to play with children.
I was walking all over the farm, helping out the chores and doing the
errands that ordered me on a beautifulsummer morning. I remember it was about
to start the blind. Mr Arnshawn, the old master, came down the

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stairs with his travelling clothes. Heinstructed Joseph about the tasks of the day
and going to Hindley, Catherine andI who had breakfast together, asked his
son what you want me to bringyou from Liverpool, small choose what you
want to tell him not to growtoo big, because I have to go
and get back on foot and theyare these miles of walking. Hindley asked

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for a violin. Catherine who,although not yet six years old, already
knew how to ride all the horseson the block. He asked for a
whip. To me, the lordpromised to bring me pears and apples.
It was good that something severe.He then kissed the children and left in
the three days of his absence.Little Catherine was just asking about her father.

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On the night of the third day, the lady expected her husband to
arrive in time for dinner and postponedthe hours and hours. The children ended
up getting tired of going to thegate to see if their father was coming.
Darkened the lady wanted to put thelittle ones to bed and they begged
her to let them wait at eleven. The gentleman finally showed up and fell

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into a chair saying between laughter andcomplaints that it would not be a walk
again. However, for all thethree kingdoms of Britain, I thought I
was bursting added by opening his gabonand ra ra ra ra ra or that
I bring here, woman, Ihave not carried in my life a greater
weight. Take it as a giftthat God sends us, though because of
how black he is he seems morelike an envoy of the devil. We

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surrounded him and above Catherine' shead I could distinguish a dirty and rosy
boy with black hair, although hewas grown enough to walk and talk,
as he seemed older than Catherine.When we set him up in the midst
of all, he stood still,looking at us with dismay and speaking in
unintelligible jargon. We were scared andthe lady wanted to throw him out of

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the house. Then he asked themaster how he had come to bring that
little gypsy when they already had childrenof their own to take care of what
that meant. The lord tried toexplain what happened, but how he was
so weary and she kept reprimanding him. I didn' t get it clean,

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but the master had found the hungrylittle boy and, if not my
family in the streets of Liverpool andI had decided to pick him up and
bring him with me. The ladyended up calming down and Mr Airshaw told
me to wash him, put himin clean clothes and put him to bed
in his children' s room.Helley and Catherine were listening until the tranquility
was restored and then they began tolook in their father' s pockets for

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the promised gifts. Hilly was alreadya fourteen- year- old rapacious,
but when he found in one ofhis pockets the remains of what had been
a violin, he broke to cryand Catherine, hearing that her father had
lost the whip he had brought himto attend to the intruder, proved his
contrariety, spitting out the little boyand making fun of him. The occurrence

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earned him a slap from his father. The brothers refused at all to admit
their beds and I thought of nothingbetter than to leave him on the landing
of the ladder waiting for him toleave to arrive in the morning. Well,
because Mr O' s voice soundedfor what he went outside, the
boy went to the master' sroom and this one, finding out how

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he had gotten there and knowing whereI had left him, punished my inhumanity
by throwing me into the street.Thus Heathcliff was introduced into the family.
I returned to the house days later, as my expulsion did not become definitive
and found that they had given theintruder the name of Heathcliff, which was
that of a child of masters whohad died very small. Since then,

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that Heathcliff served as his first nameand surname Catherine and he became very good
friends, but Hindley hated him.I, too, mistreated him a lot
and the lady never intervened to protecthim. He behaved like a crooked,
patient child. Perhaps he would havegotten used to being ill- treated.
He held on without blinking Hindley's blows and didn' t shed a

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tear. If I pinched him,he would only sigh deeply as if he
had hurt himself by chance. Itis or Mr Airshan that his son mistreated
the poor orphan as he called him, he became angry professed to Heathley an
amazing affection, more than even toCatherine, who was very naughty I saw

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believed when he told him, althoughof course, regarding the persecutions to which
he was subject. He did notcount all that he suffered, so from
the beginning, Heathclip sowed seeds ofdiscord in the house. When she died
two years later, Mrs Hindley regardedher father as a tyrant and Heathcliff as

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an intruder who had stolen her fatherlyaffection and her son' s rights.
I shared their opinions, but whenthe children became sick of measles, I
modified my feelings. I had totake care of all the kids and Headlin,
while he was serious and wanted tohave me always by his side,

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I should think that I was verygood for him, without understanding that I
was doing nothing but fulfilling his obligation. Admittedly, he was the most peaceful
child who ever cared for a nurse. As Catherine and her brother continually troubled
me, he was meek as alamb. Perhaps they looked more to the
habit of suffering than to good instincts. When he healed and the doctor assured

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that this was partly due to theconsequence of my care, I was grateful
to the one who had made medeserve such praise. That' s how
Hindley lost the ally she had inme. However, my affection for Heathclin
was not blind and I often wonderedto myself what it would be that master
could see in that child. WhatI remember never rewarded his protector with any

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expression of gratitude. It is notthat he does wrong with the master now,
but that he showed indifference. Althoughshe knew that one sentence of hers
was enough for the whole house tobend to her fingers. I remember,
for example, an occasion when MrArshaw bought two foals at the village fair
and gave one to each boy.Head picked him the most beautiful, but

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having noticed shortly after he limped,he told Hindley you have to change the
horse with me, because I don' t like mine. If you don
' t want to do it,I' ll tell your father that you
gave me three beatings that week andI' ll show him my arm,
that he' s bruised. He' s right next to Hindley' s
shoulder, he made fun of himand slapped him. The best thing is

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for you to do what I tellyou right away. Heathflit continued to go
out to the portal from the blockwhere they were. You know if I
talk to your father, you'll get these hits and a lot longer
than here. Dog shouted Hilley,threatening him with a heavy iron used to
weigh potatoes. Dare to throw itat me. Heathclip knew by stopping,

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and I will say that you boastedthat you would throw me out on the
street as soon as your father diedand we will see if then it is
not you who leaves this house todaythat caught Heathcliff in the chest fell to
the ground, but he immediately rosepale and staggered not to have prevented him

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I would have gone immediately to introducethe master to accuse Hindley. Get my
gypsy horse. Then the young Airshawroared and I hope you kill yourself with
him. Take it and fucking takeit. Be miserable, intruder go and
rip my father out all he's got and show him who you are
after you make it satan' sspawn take it and so kick your head

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off. Heathclis approached the animal andbegan to untie it to change its place.
Hindley, after he had finished speaking, struck him down between the hoofs
of the horse and without stopping tosee if his curses were fulfilled, ran
away. I was amazed at theserenity with which the boy stood up and
realized his intentions, changing first ofall the cavalry' s raids, after

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which he sat on some hay tolet it happen to him. The effect
of the hit received before re-entering the house. It was not difficult
for me to convince him to blamethe horse for his bruises. He had
gotten what he wanted and the restmattered little, as he rarely complained about

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the ill- treatment he suffered.I thought I wasn' t spiteful,
but soon you' ll see hewas cheating on me. Page 47