key quotations - Lena Lingard Flashcards
“I prefer to be foolish when I……
feel like it, and be accountable to nobody”
“It must have been a trial for mothers, coming ……..
out here and having to do everything different”
“that’s antonia’s failing, you know; if she……
likes people, she won’t hear anything against them”
“i don’t want to marry Nick, or…….
any other man”
“he’s one of the people……
i feel sorriest for”
“Miss Lingard” he said haughtily “is a young……
woman for whom I have the utmost, the utmost respect for”
“men are all right for friends, but as soon as you marry them…..
they turn into cranky old fathers, even the wild ones.”
“i like to be ……
lonesome”
“she would have made us comfortable is she could. But……
that was no life for a girl!”
“you can’t tell me anything about family life. I’ve had….
plenty to last me….Near enough. it’s all being under somebody’s thumb”
