8. Cumbres borrascosas

Capítulo 8
La muerte de Frances afecta profundamente a Hindley, y la casa de Cumbres Borrascosas cae en el caos.

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Episode Transcript

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Chapter eight, a beautiful one.June morning came the world. The first
child I was to raise and thelast offspring of the old air show breed
were picking up in a field awayfrom the farm when we saw the girl
who usually brings us breakfast arrive anhour in advance. What a beautiful boy
he exclaimed. You' ve neverseen a more handsome one, but,

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according to the doctor, the ladywill live very little. Apparently, it
' s been consuming for the lastfew months. I heard what Mr Hindley
was saying and he assured you thathe would die before winter. Come home
to Helena right away. You haveto take care of the child, give
him milk and sugar. I'd like to be you, because when

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the lady dies, you' regoing to be completely in charge of the
sick little one. I asked aboutthe hairpin and the ribbons in my hat.
I heard you did. The girlreplied, although she is very lively
and speaks as if she were goingto live until she sees the little name,
the child really does not fit inwith joy. It' s beautiful.

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If I were in your case,I wouldn' t die just by
looking at the child I' dget good. Mrs Arshaer arrived the little
angel to the master and had onlyintroduced her to him when Kenneth' s
old grumpy came forward and told him, Mr Arshaw, it is a fortune
that his wife gave him a son. When I first saw her, I
was sure she wouldn' t livelong, and now I can tell her

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it won' t be over thewinter. Do not be grieved, because
the thing is irremediable, but heshould have sought you a healthier woman and
what the master answered. I askedthe girl, I think blasphemy, but
I didn' t notice because Iwas too busy looking at the creature.
The girl began to describe the babyto me enthusiastically. I rushed home,

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as I had as much desire tosee him as she did, but I
felt sorry for hemley. He knewthat in his heart there was only room
for two affections, that of hiswife and that of himself. Francisca adored
her and it seemed impossible for meto bear her death. Upon arriving at
drunken peaks, he was standing atthe door. I asked him how the

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newborn was about to run. Heenareplied smiling and the lady I think the
doctor says the devil with the doctoranswered. Francisca is fine and next week
she will have fully restored herself.If you go upstairs tell her I'

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ll go see her now whenever shepromises not to talk to me. I
went out of the room because Ididn' t want to shut up and
I need you to be quiet.Warn him that Mr Kennell prescribes quietness.
I communicated that indication to the ladyand she, who seemed very encouraged,
answered Only one word spoke elena andyet she went out twice praying out of

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the room. I promise to shutup, but it won' t stop
me from laughing at him. Thepoor woman didn' t lose her temper.
A week ago before her husband died, she was still obstinate that she
was constantly improving. The day Kennelwarned him that he no longer prescribed medicine
because they were totally useless. Giventhe degree to which he had reached the

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disease, Hindley answered him well.I know you don' t need them,
nor do you need medical care.I was never sick to my chest.
He' s had a fever,yes, but he' s gone.
His pulse is now as normal asmine and his cheeks are very fresh.
He told his wife the same thingand she seemed to believe it.

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But one night while Francisca lay herhead on her husband' s shoulder and
told her that she was thinking ofgetting up the next day, she had
a slight coughing attack He hugged herand put her hands around her neck and
paled and gave her soul Harton.The child was given to my care.
Mr Airshaw was content about the littleone knowing he was okay and not hearing

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him cry, but he, forhis part, was desperate. Your pain.
He was one of those who didnot express themselves with lamentations, did
not sob or pray, but cursedGod and men and gave himself a life
of mad debauchery. No servant longendured the tyrannical behavior that gave us and

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we only stood by him. Josephand I had been his sister of milk
and lacked courage to abandon him.As for Joseph, he stayed because in
this way he could send the hiredmen and men, and also because he
always felt at ease wherever there werethings to censor. The bad habits and

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bad associations the master had contracted werea terrible example for Catherine and Heathcliff.
He treated her in such a waythat, even if she had been a
saint, she had to end uphaving fun in a demon and the boy
really seemed demonic. At that time, the degradation of Hindley filled him with

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pleasure, made roughness and coarseness increased. Our life. It was hell.
The priest stopped coming to the houseand ended up imitating all respectable people.
No one treated us except Eduardo Linton, who sometimes showed up to visit Catherine.
At the age of fifteen, theyoung woman became the queen of the

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region. None could match him andhe became a stubborn and capricious being since
he had ceased to be a child. I didn' t love her and
tried to humiliate her pride at all, but she wouldn' t listen to
me. He kept a constant affectionfor Heathcliff and never loved anyone like him,
not even young Linton. This wasmy last one. Sir. His

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portrait is over there on the chimney. Before your wife' s was hanging
and it' s a shame thatyou found him, because so you could
have made an idea of what itwas we' ll repair that and you
' ll see the spark plug litup a face of fine factions very similar
to that of the young woman ofthe summits, but even more thoughtful and

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less attentive. It was a nicepicture. The horse was blond, slightly
curly in the temples the eyes bigand reflective and, overall, a figure
that was even too funny. Idid not marvel that Catherine had preferred Heathcliff,
but thinking that his spirit should correspondto his appearance, I was amazed
that he had been attracted to Catherine. It was a show It' s

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a good portrait. I said it' s similar, yes, he replaced
the soul of keys in general.It was like that when I was spoiled.
He seemed even more handsome After spendingthose five weeks with the Lintons he
continued to maintain friendly relations with them. As she disguised her usual roughness in
her presence, she managed to captivateeveryone, especially Elizabeth, who admired her

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and her brother, who ended upfalling in love with her. As this
pleased her. He had to developa double way of being, though not
with bad desire. When he heardthat Heatley was a ruffian and worse than
a brute, he took great carenot to resemble him, but when he
was at home, he showed littleinclination to good manners which, on the

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other hand, would not have earnedhim praise from any. Eduardo. He
did not dare to frequent many drunkenpeaks because the bad reputation he had airshow
frightened him and feared to meet him. We received him with many attentions.
The master also tried to offend himby guessing the reason for his regularities and,

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since it was not possible for himto be kind, at least,
he tried not to let himself beseen. It seems to me that Catherine
was not very pleased, she lackedmalice and did not know how to be
flirtatious, so she did not likethat her two friends met, because if
Healtkly showed contempt for Linton, shecould not show agreement with him, as

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she did when Eduardo was not present. And if Linton, in turn,
expressed antipathy towards Heathcliff, he didn' t dare take him either. On
the contrary, I moved many timesfrom their indecisions and from the dislikes that
I suffered because of them and thatI tried to hide myself. You will
say that my attitude was reprehensible,but that young woman was so proud that,

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if she wanted to be humbler,she was forced never to sympathize with
her after all, as she didnot find another better confidant. He had
to cross over to me one afternoonwhen Mr Airshall had gone out Heathcliff decided
to party that day. I thinkhe was sixteen years old at the time,

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and although he was neither stupid norugly, his general appearance was unpleasant.
The education that his early days receivedor had dissipated the work to which
he was devoted had extinguished in alllove to study and the feeling of superiority
that they were in his childhood instilledin him the attentions of the former master
no longer existed for long. Shetried to stay at Catalina' s cultural

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level, but at last she hadto yield to the evidence when she was
convinced that she would no longer recoverthe lost. It was completely abandoned and
its appearance reflected its moral decline.He had an ignoble and rude appearance that
he currently has nothing to do with. She became extremely insociable and seemed pleased
to inspire repulsion rather than sympathy tothe few with whom she had relations when

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she did not work followed by Catherine' s eternal companion, but he never
expressed her affection verbally and received theaffectionate caresses of her friend without returning them.
The day I said, he walkedinto the room where I was helping
Miss Catherine get dressed and announced hisdecision not to work that afternoon. She,

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who did not expect such an occurrence, had summoned Eduardo and was preparing
to receive him. You have somethingto do. This afternoon, Catherine asked
you to go for a walk,no, because it' s raining.
Then why did you wear that silkdress? I guess you won' t
wait for anyone.“ I don’ t expect anyone that I know of,

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” she replied,“ but sinceyou are not already in the field.
Heathcliff, over an hour ago weate, I thought you' d
be gone by now. Hindley oftendoes not free us from his odious presence.
The boy replied. I' mnot going to work today and I
' m going to stay with youThe young lady advised you. Don'
t be told by Jose. Josephwas loading land in Pennington and he won

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' t be back until night,so he doesn' t have to find
out. And Heathclis sat next tothe man Catherine, frowned and reflected a
few moments. At last he foundan apology to prepare for his friend'
s arrival and said after a minuteof silence, Isabel and Eduardo Linton warned

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that they would come this afternoon.Of course, since I don' t
expect them to, but if theydecide and they see you, you'
re in danger of being reprimanded.Kelena tell them you' re busy.
Incision boy. Don' t makeme leave because of those fools of your
friends. Sometimes I feel like tellingyou that they, but I prefer to

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shut up what you have to say. Catherine cried out troubled. Elena added
by getting rid of my hands.You' ve cleared my waves. Just
let me know what you' reabout to say about Heathcliff look at this
calendar that' s on the wallReply he pointed out one that was hanging

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by the window. The crosses markthe afternoons you spent with Linton and the
points we' ve spent together.You and I have marked patiently every day.
What do you think about it,and to a fool Catherine scorned,
" What' s that all about?"“ What do you realize I
make amends for,” Heathcliff said, and why he should always be with

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you. She replied more and moreirritated. What are you doing, what
are you talking about? You dowhat you do to distract me. A
breast child would do it and whatyou say would say a way before you
didn' t tell me that.Catherine retorted Heathcliff very agitated. You didn
' t declare me ungrateful. Mycompany Wow, a company of a person

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who doesn' t know anything orsay anything. He commented the young Heatley
joined, but before he had timeto keep talking, we felt a rumor
of horse helmets and Master Linton camein with his face brimming happy. Undoubtedly,
at that time Catherine was able tocompare the difference between the two boys,
because it was like moving from amining basin to a beautiful valley,

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and the voices and modes of bothconfirmed the first impression. Linton knew how
to express himself with sweetness and utterwords like you, that is, in
a softer way than the one usedin these lands. I would not have
anticipated the time asked the young manlooking at me I was rinsing the dishes
and fixing the drawers of the sideboard. Catherine didn' t say she'

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s working there. Miss, Idid not leave because I had orders from
Mr Hindley to attend Linton' sinterviews with Catalina. She came up to
me and told me in a whisper, get out of here and take your
rags. When there are outsiders,the servants are not in the lords'
rooms, since the master is outof or working. I told him since

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he doesn' t like to seeme do it in his presence. I
' m sure he' d apologize. I don' t like seeing you
work with my presence either. Catherinereplied imperiously. I was nervous about the
dispute I had with Heathcliff and I' m sorry. Miss, Catalina responded
by continuing my occupation. She thoughtEduardo didn' t see her, tore

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off my hand cleaning cloth and appliedsome superb pinches to me. I have
already said that I had no affectionfor him and that I was pleased to
humiliate his pride whenever possible, soI incorporated myself because I was on my
knees and cried bare. Miss,that' s a hit- and-
run, and I' m notwilling to consent to it. I didn
' t touch you. He answeredme. While his fingers were preparing to

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repeat the action, rage had lithis cheeks because he did not know how
to hide his feelings and whenever hewas angry his face became incarnated as a
pepper. Then, this is whatI answered by pointing to the sign that
the pinch had produced on my arm, he struck the ground with his foot
he hesitated for a second and then, without being able to contain himself,

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he slapped me. My eyes werefilled with tears for God' s sake.
Catherine exclaimed Eduardo disgusted with her violenceand her lie and standing between us
leaving Heena ordered her trembling Rabia Hareton, who was always with me, also
began to cry and complain about themaster to Aunt Catherine. Then she overflowed

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against the boy, grabbed him bythe shoulders and shook him terribly until Edward
intervened and held his hands. Theboy was released, but at the same
time the amazed Eduardo received on hisown cheeks a retort strong enough not to
be taken into play. He turnedaway dismayed, took hareton in my arms

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and went to the kitchen, leavingthe door open to see how that incident
ended. The visitor, offended andpale and with trembling lips, went to
take his hat. You do wellI thought for myself learn. Give thanks
to God that she has shown youher true character and do not come back
to pass. But she said energetically. I don' t want you to

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go and hear me. Catherine didn' t answer by holding the doorknob.
Don' t go yet. Eduardo, sit down, don' t leave
me in this mood, I'd spend a horrible night and I don
' t want to suffer for cause. You think I should stay.“
After being offended,” Linton asked,“ Catherine fell.“ I am

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ashamed of you,” the youngman continued. I' m not coming
back. Tears shone in Catherine's eyes. Besides, you lied,
he said he didn' t makeit back. She did it all without
wanting to go away if you want. Now I' ll start crying and
cry until I can' t doit anymore. Splomose in a chair and
broke in sobbing. Eduardo came tothe courtyard and there he stopped I resolved

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to breathe breaths. The lady Itold you is as capricious as a spoiled
child. It' s better foryou to go home, because if you
' re not able to get sickto upset us, Eduardo looked at the
window. The poor boy was asable to leave as a cat, he
is to let half kill a mouseor half pray a gilguer. You'

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re lost. I thought you wererushing yourself to your destiny. I didn
' t fool myself. He suddenlyturned inside the house, closed the door,
and when, after a while,I went to warn them that Mr
Arshan had returned beodo and eager tomake a fuss, I could see that
what had happened had served only toincrease his intimacy and to break the levees

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of his youthful shyness, to thepoint that they had understood that they were
not only friends but wanted to hearthat Hindley had arrived. Linton quickly went
to find his horse and cataline athis alcove. I took care to hide
little Harretton and unload the man's shotgun because he had the habit,
when he was in that state,of walking with her at serious risk of

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life for anyone who provokes him orsimply makes some observation to him. My
caution would prevent the Linton from causingany damage if he fired. Page eighty- two