We have already seen Catherine in _Wuthering Heights_ represented Charlotte Brontë as intimately portrayed by herself in the work, and that Heathcliffe was drawn by her from the original of the Rochester of _Jane Eyre_. So faithfully did Charlotte Brontë tell again in _Jane Eyre_ the history of her life in relation to her family and M. Héger, that she gives the main lines of her biography in both works. I will show them side by side. For the literal parallels when not given in this chapter see the index. My amazing discovery on the return of the runaway Heathcliffe to Catherine and the return of the runaway Jane to Rochester I give literally herewith. _Wuthering Heights._ _Jane Eyre._ Opening scene: A rainy day in Opening scene: A rainy day in Catherine's (Charlotte Brontë's) Jane's (Charlotte Brontë's) childhood. She is treated childhood. She is treated unkindly by the rest of the unkindly by the rest of the household. It is impossible to household. It is impossible to go out on account of the rain. go out on account of the rain. She had been commanded to keep She had been commanded to keep aloof from the family group. aloof from the family group. This group included in This group included in particular, little Catherine particular, little Jane tells us tells us with bitter feeling, with bitter feeling, John Reed Hindley Earnshaw (Branwell (Branwell Brontë), who Brontë), who luxuriated in the luxuriated in the warmth of the warmth of the fire with other fire with other members of the members of the family. family. Nevertheless, though banished, Nevertheless, though banished Catherine (Charlotte Brontë) herself, Jane (Charlotte Brontë) makes herself snug in a recess makes herself snug in a recess behind a curtain, and believes behind a curtain, and believes herself secure, when Hindley herself secure, when John Reed Earnshaw (Branwell Brontë), (Branwell Brontë), coming up coming up from his paradise on from his paradise on the hearth, the hearth, makes her come out makes her come out of the recess of the recess precipitantly, precipitantly. He hurls the book after she has hurled the book she was reading. Little Jane she was reading. Little (Charlotte Brontë) sees a tyrant Catherine (Charlotte Brontë) in John Reed (Branwell Brontë). sees a tyrant in Hindley He tells her that he is the Earnshaw (Branwell Brontë). He master of the house, or soon tells her that he is the master will be. of the house.