Rebecca Flashcards by Antonia Cook

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Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again.

. . . We can never go back to Manderley again, that much is certain.

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I walked enchanted, and nothing held me back.

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They say he can’t get over his wife’s death… (mrs van hopper)

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Never for a moment did he interrupt [as] he had made a fool of her in front of me, and clung to it grimly

…forgive me, I was very rude this afternoon (m)

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I was aware of that feeling of discomfort, as though I had trespassed on forbidden ground

My shyness fell away from me, loosening as did so my reluctant tongue

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An appalling tradegy…she was drowned you know, in the bay near Manderley (mrs van hopper, doesn’t sound too past tense)

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I am glad it cannot happen twice, the fever of first love…a fever, burden, whatever the piets may say

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A little scrubby schoolboy with a passion for a sixth-form prefect

…kissed the top of my head

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All memories are bitter, and I prefer to ignore tham (m)

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No, I’m asking you to marry me you little fool (m)

…it’s a pity you have to grow up

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that empty house got on his nerves to such an extent he nearly went off his head. . . He just can’t go on living here alone

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rhododendrons…something bewildering…shocking…suddenness…slaughteous red, lucious and fantastic, unlike any rhododendron

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gaunt…black…hollow…skull’s face…skeleton’s frame (mrs Danvers)

[her hand] deathly cold, lifeless

Hollow eyes never leaving mine

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wore no frown between his eyes, carried no burden on his shoulder. I knew him as a lover

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It’s the most beautiful room in the house, and the windows look down across the lawns to the sea.

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(R’s; west wing)

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lit a cigarette…went on reading his paper, having assumed his of living

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when the telephone rang, suddenly, alarmingly, on the desk in front of me, my heart leapt and I started up in terror

I’m afraid you’ve made a mistake, Mrs de Winter has been dead for over a year

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[narrator’s handwriting] indifferent pupil taught in a second-rate school

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I love bathing. As long as the currents are not too strong l. Is the bathing safe in the bay? Nobody answered,

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I’m being like Jasper now, leaning against him. He pats me now and again

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you are so very different from Rebecca (Beatrice)

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The spell of Happy Valley was upon me.

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We ought never to have come back to Manderley…what a fool I was (m, post argument with wife)

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I love you so much

Do you? Do you? (m)

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was Rebecca very beautiful? (questioning destroying narrator) she was the most beautiful creature I ever saw in my life (frank)

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I can't help being shy. I know you can't, sweetheart. But you don't make any effort to conquer it (m)

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Who looks you up and down? Everybody? What does it matter if they do?

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I suppose that's why you married me...dull, quiet, inexperienced...never be any gossip

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This all began because I broke the upid in the morning-room ...I believe it was a wedding present. Rebecca knew a lot about china.

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My voice was steady and cool. Not like my heart, thumping inside me. Not like my mind, bitter and resentful.

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'Je Reviens' (I come back) I wondered what colour, green and white perhaps

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He watched me with his sly idiot's eyes You won't put me in the asylum, will you? ... you've got angel eyes...you're not like the other one (Ben)

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with the two brushes in his hand "harder, max, harder" she would say, laughing

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Do you think the dead come back to watch the living? (mrs Danvers)

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The locals look upon Manderley as if it was a pavillion on the end of a pier, and expect us to put up a turn for their benefit.

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I glanced hurriedly at the door, like a guilty child (breaking china cupid)

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The picture you copied of the girl in the gallery. It was what Rebecca did at the last fancy dress ball at Manderley. Identical. For one ghastly moment...

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nothing quite so shaming, so degrading as a marriage that had failed. Failed after three months, as mine had done.

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it was like a game to her. Like a game. She laughed at you [Maxim] like she did the rest.

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Mr de Winter doesn't love you. . .why don't you jump

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I belonged there, Manderley belonged to me

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The wonan buired in the crypt is not Rebecca. It's the body of some unknown woman I shot Rebecca Will you look into my eyes and tell me that you love me now?

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You don't love me...I understand. It's come too late [news of R death]

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When I married her I was told I was the luckiest man in the world "breeding, brains and beauty"

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she told me things I shall never repeat to a living soul

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I put Manderley first, before anything else. And it does not prosper, than sort of love. They don't oreach about it in churches.

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You would like an heir, wouldn't you, for your beloved Manderley (R) [antagonising about promiscuity]

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I too had killed Rebecca...sunk the boat...I had suffered with him

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He ran his fingers through my hair...it was not like stroking Jasper anymore

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Were relations between you and the late Mrs de Winter perfectly happy? Will someone take my wife outside? She is going to faint.

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sentimental business about abolishing the death penalty simply encourages crime. He will hang for it, like any other murderer.

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I wonder what you have been doing. Leading Frank Crawley up the garden-path? (Favell)

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All married men with lovely wives are jealous...can't help playing Othello...why fellows can't share their women instead of killing them...the more you use her the better she goes

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no matter what tears shed, what sorrows borne, the peace of Manderley could not be broken or the loveliness destroyed...like an enchanted thing

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The sky on the horizon was not dark at all. It was shot with crimson, like a splash of blood. And the ashes blew towards us with the salt wind from the sea.

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