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Good evening and welcome to the sleepy bookshelf, where we put down our worries from the day and pick up a good book.

I'm your host, Elizabeth.

Thank you so much for coming tonight.

This evening we are returning to withering heights.

But first, let us take some time here to breathe and be present.

Take a gentle breath in, noticing the small space that follows, that quiet pause before you exhale.

And now release the breath slow and complete, and notice the same stillness that comes after.

Inhale once again and try to stay inside those pauses,

the small spaces between the breaths where time seems to stop,

and everything is calm.

Let yourself rest there, in that soft, in between, where the day fades and only peace remains.

Ellen tried to visit the heights to see Kathy after she was imprisoned there, but Joseph refused her entry.

She heard from Zilla the housemaid that Linton died.

Kathy tried to raise the alarm that Heathcliff refused to send for the doctor.

After that, Kathy barely left her room until it got too cold and she had to seek heat from the fire in the kitchen.

That she was rude to everyone in the house who tried to show her kindness,

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