title: H: The Story of Heathcliff's Journey Back to Wuthering Heights
author:  Lin Haire-Sargeant 
description: Out in the world on his own again, Heathcliff is groomed into a gentleman, encounters old rivals, and prepares to face his beloved Cathy again in a speculative novel on Heathcliff's three-year absence from Wuthering Heights.
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  ## Wuthering Heights
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  ## by  
  Emily Bronte
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # I
  
  
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  1801.—I have just returned from a visit to my landlord—the solitary neighbour
  that I shall be troubled with. This is certainly a beautiful country! In all
  England, I do not believe that I could have fixed on a situation so completely
  removed from the stir of society. A perfect misanthropist’s heaven: and Mr.
  Heathcliff and I are such a suitable pair to divide the desolation between us.
  A capital fellow! He little imagined how my heart warmed towards him when I
  beheld his black eyes withdraw so suspiciously under their brows, as I rode
  up, and when his fingers sheltered themselves, with a jealous resolution,
  still further in his waistcoat, as I announced my name.
  
  
  ‘Mr. Heathcliff?’ I said.
  
  
  A nod was the answer.
  
  
  ‘Mr. Lockwood, your new tenant, sir. I do myself the h