LWF quotes Flashcards

(40 cards)

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Dumby - quite

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“Quite delightful…dreadfully dull!”

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DOB - dear

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“dear girl! so devoted to sunsets!”

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3
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Agatha

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“yes mamma”

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3
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DOB - that

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“That rich young Australian people are taking such notice of just at present”

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Mrs E - motherly feelings

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“terrible - made me suffer”

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Mrs E - I feel

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“I feel a passion awakening within me that i never felt before…how can i save her? How can i save my child?”

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Mrs E - if

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“if he had a thousand loves, you must stay with your child”

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DOB - I wont

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“I won’t let you know my daughter, you are far too wicked”

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Mrs E - the truth

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“It will ruin her, and make her wretched”

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9
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Lord W - calls Lady W

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“child”

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10
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DOB - women are

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“domestic creatures”

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DOB - it was

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“it was only Berwick’s brutal and incessant threats of suicide that made me accept him at all”

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LD - you

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“you are” “you are” “you would” “you have no courage, none!”

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Lady W - men

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“I have heard that men are brutal, horrible”

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Lord W - right

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“you cut open my bank book. you have no right to do such a thing!”

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15
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What is Lady W doing at the start?

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arranging roses

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16
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What does Lady W that angers Lord W?

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cuts cover from bank book

17
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how does Mrs E enter the party?

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she sails into the room

18
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Mrs E - with

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“with a proper background women can do anything”

19
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Mrs E - to

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“To save you from the abyss into which you are falling, there is nothing in the world I would not dare”

20
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Lord D - game

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“game of marriage”

21
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Lady P - the

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“the world has grown so suspicious of happy married life”

22
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Lady W - London

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“London is full of women who trust their husbands…they look so thoroughly unhappy”

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Lord D - do you

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“do you think that the wife should not console herself?”

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Lady W - Windermere
‘Windermere and I married for love’; Duchess: ‘Yes, we begin like that’
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DOB - just
"just take him abroad, and he'll come back to you alright"
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Mrs E - on morality
manners before morals
27
Mrs E - repentance
"repentance is quite out of date"
28
Lord and Lady W on Mrs E
"a clever woman" "a good woman"
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Lady W - i dont
"I don't think now that people can be divided into the good and the bad"
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Mrs E - dont
“Don’t spoil the one good thing i have done in my life by telling it to anyone”
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Cecil Graham - on women
“wicked women bother one. Good women bore one”
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Lady W - i will
“I will have no one in my house about whom there is any scandal”
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Lord W - i dare
“I dare not tell her who this woman really is. The shame would kill her”
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Lord D - pay
“(compliments) are the only things we can pay”
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DOB - what
“What a charming, wicked creature!”
36
DOB - the whole
“the whole of london knows it”
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Mrs E - what
“What a bore it is to have to be civil to these old dowagers!”
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DOB - augustus
“Augustus is completely infatuated about her. It is quite scandalous, for she is absolutely inadmissible into society”
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Lord D - love
"From the moment I met you I loved you, loved you blindly, adoringly, madly!"