Sentence No. 144 · 18 August 2026
Gladly did I take advantage of this intimation; and the minute I flung myself into a chair, by the fire, I nodded, and slept
Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë — Wuthering Heights (1847) · Read it at Project Gutenberg
What holds this sentence together
Notice the inverted opening: the adverb 'Gladly' pulls the auxiliary 'did' in front of 'I', signalling an emphatic start. The semicolon then pivots to a second clause beginning with 'and the minute', which sets up a time-frame that must resolve in the final verbs.
How it appears in Sentle
On Sentle this sentence arrives in 8 pieces, shuffled, with the lines that lead up to it for context. A weary traveller yields to firelight and fatigue. Putting it back in the author’s order is the puzzle — and the order is rarely arbitrary, which is what the note above is about.
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