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Catherine

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Catherine
Saint. died 307 ad, legendary Christian martyr of Alexandria, who was tortured on a spiked wheel and beheaded


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When dinner-time drew nigh, Catherine took a nice steak, which was all the meat she had, and put it on the fire to fry.
No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy would have supposed her born to be an heroine.
This writing, however, was nothing but a name repeated in all kinds of characters, large and small - CATHERINE EARNSHAW, here and there varied to CATHERINE HEATHCLIFF, and then again to CATHERINE LINTON.
 
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