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Mrs Dubose
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- 1Mrs Dubose"Mrs Dubose lived alone except for a negro girl in constant assistance... She was very old; she spent most of each day in bed and the rest of it in a wheelchair. It was rumoured that she kept a CSA pistol concealed among her numerous shawls and wraps."
- Scout Finch - 2Mrs Dubose"Jem and I hated her."
- Scout Finch - 3Mrs Dubose"She was vicious."
- Scout Finch - 4Mrs Dubose"She's an old lady and she's ill."
- Atticus Finch - 5Mrs Dubose"Your father's no better than the niggers and trash he works for!"
- Mrs Dubose - 6Mrs Dubose"An oppressive odour met us when we crossed the threshold, an odour I had met many times in rain-rotten grey houses where there are coal-oil lamps, water dippers, and unbleached domestic sheets. It always made me afraid, expectant, watchful.
- Scout Finch - 7Mrs Dubose"She way lying under a pile of quilts and looked almost friendly."
- Scout Finch - 8Mrs Dubose"She was horrible. Her face was the colour of a dirty pillowcase, and the corners of her mouth glistened with wet, which inched like a glacier down the deep grooves enclosing her chin."
- Scout Finch - 9Mrs Dubose"Old-age liver spots dotted her cheeks, and her pale eyes had black pinpoint pupils. Her hands were knobby, and the cuticles were grown up over her fingernails. Her bottom plate was not in, and her upper lip protruded; from time to time she would draw her nether lip to her upper plate and carry her chin with it. This made the wet move faster."
- Scout Finch - 10Mrs Dubose..."but she's so nasty. She has fits or somethin'. She spits a lot."
- Jem Finch - 11Mrs Dubose"So don't let Mrs Dubose get you down. She had enough troubles of her own."
- Atticus Finch - 12Mrs Dubose"Old hell-devil, old hell-devil!" he screamed, flinging it down. "Why can't she leave me alone?"
- Jem Finch - 13Mrs Dubose"Mrs Dubose won, all ninety-eight pounds of her. According to her views, she died beholden to nothing and nobody. She was the braves person I ever knew."
- Atticus Finch
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- English Literature Flashcards on Mrs Dubose, created by Carla Hewitt on 11/05/2015.
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