Small Island: Hortense Quotes Flashcards
(51 cards)
“Hortense in …….. I will have a big …….. with a …. at the front door and I will …. the bell.”
“Hortense in England I will have a big house with a bell at the front door and I will ring the bell.”
“I did not hear a ring. No ding-a-ling, ding-a-ling.”
“Just this? Just this? You bring me all this way for just this?”
“Rusty tap.” / “Two chairs - one with its back broken.”
“With such a countenance, there was a chance of a golden life for I.”
“You should learn to speak properly as the King of England does. Not in this rough country way.”
“The moment my eyes first beheld this handsome, dapper, newly made man I knew that I loved him.”
“No living person should ever see the underside of a tree.”
English Curriculum: “Oliver Cromwell.” “Glaciation.” “Henry V’s speech before the battle of Agincourt of Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s ‘The Charge of the Light Brigade.”
“This light skinned, green-eyed boy had looked the most trustworthy pupil for the task.”
“These white women whose superiority encircled them like an aureole.”
“Her skin was so dark. But mine was not of that hue - it was the colour of warm honey.”
“I mistook this uncouth man for Micheal Roberts.”
“Micheal Roberts… could belong in no other place than on this Caribbean island.”
“It looks to all the world like a fairytale castle.”
“Pavements with a blanket of gold.” “The leaves that float around them like golden rain.”
“A single woman cannot travel on her own - it would not look good. But a married woman might go anywhere she pleased.”
“Like a business deal had been struck between us.”
“England became my destiny.” (Repeated later in England as “England was my destiny.”)
“You live like an animal.”
“Do not come near me with that thing.”
“I would soon be living in England and able to rise far above these people.”
“Only I felt the pinching of the cold on my exposed cheek, sharp as acid, did I remember I was in England.”
“Plaster missing.” / “Cracking everywhere.” / “A missing handle.”
