Wuthering Heights

What event does Edgar’s banishment of Heathcliff from Thrushcross Grange remind Catherine?

what event does Edgar’s banishment of Heathcliff from Thrushcross Grange
remind Catherine?

This occurs in chapter 11 or 12, i beleive. but I cannot find where in the text catherine mentions the event she is reminded of.

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Heathcliff's banishment reminds Catherine of the way Heathcliff was treated as a child. It reminds her of the fight between Heathcliff and her brother.... their first separation.

I was a child; my father was just buried, and my misery arose from the separation that Hindley had ordered between me and Heathcliff. I was laid alone, for the first time; and, rousing from a dismal doze after a night of weeping, I lifted my hand to push the panels aside: it struck the table-top! I swept it along the carpet, and then memory burst in: my late anguish was swallowed in a paroxysm of despair. I cannot say why I felt so wildly wretched: it must have been temporary derangement; for there is scarcely cause.

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