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Line 38: === Nelly's tale === Thirty years earlier, the Earnshaws live at Wuthering Heights with their two children, Hindley and Catherine, and a servant—Nelly herself. Returning from a trip to [[Liverpool]], Earnshaw brings home ~~a young~~an orphan whom he names Heathcliff. Heathcliff's origins are unclear but it's suggested he is either of [[Romani people\|Romani]] or [[Lascar]] descent.<ref>{{cite book \|last1=Brontë \|first1=Emily \|title=Wuthering Heights \|date=1847 \|publisher=Oxford's World Classics \|isbn=978-0192833549 \|pages=21, 44 \|url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780199209286}}</ref> Earnshaw treats the boy as his favourite. His own children he neglects, especially after his wife dies. Hindley beats Heathcliff, who gradually becomes close friends with Catherine. Hindley departs for university, returning as the new master of Wuthering Heights on the death of his father three years later. He and his new wife Frances force Heathcliff to live as one of their servants and subject him to much verbal and emotional abuse.

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