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Mrs. Grafton is Charles Leslie’s sister. She travels with Alice Fletcher, Hope, and Faith to New England after her brother’s death. She dotes on her nieces. An Anglican, she endures criticisms from her Puritan neighbors for adhering to the Church of England prayer-book. Personally, however, she’s more passionate about fashion than religion. She is also very fond of trying and recommending medicinal remedies. Mrs. Grafton provides comic relief in the story, often annoying other characters with pointless non sequiturs
Mrs. Grafton Quotes in Hope Leslie
The Hope Leslie quotes below are all either spoken by Mrs. Grafton or refer to Mrs. Grafton. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Volume 1, Chapter 9
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It has been seen that Hope Leslie was superior to some of the prejudices of the age. […] Those persons she most loved, and with whom she had lived from her infancy, were of variant religious sentiments. […] Early impressions sometimes form moulds for subsequent opinions; and when at a more reflecting age, Hope heard her aunt Grafton rail with natural good sense, […] at some of the peculiarities of the puritans, she was led to doubt their infallibility; and like the bird that spreads his wings and soars above the limits by which each man fences in his own narrow domain, she enjoyed the capacities of her nature, and permitted her mind to expand beyond the contracted boundaries of sectarian faith. Her religion was pure and disinterested—no one, therefore, should doubt its intrinsic value, though it had not been coined into a particular form, or received the current impress.
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Mrs. Grafton Quotes in Hope Leslie
The Hope Leslie quotes below are all either spoken by Mrs. Grafton or refer to Mrs. Grafton. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Volume 1, Chapter 9
Quotes
It has been seen that Hope Leslie was superior to some of the prejudices of the age. […] Those persons she most loved, and with whom she had lived from her infancy, were of variant religious sentiments. […] Early impressions sometimes form moulds for subsequent opinions; and when at a more reflecting age, Hope heard her aunt Grafton rail with natural good sense, […] at some of the peculiarities of the puritans, she was led to doubt their infallibility; and like the bird that spreads his wings and soars above the limits by which each man fences in his own narrow domain, she enjoyed the capacities of her nature, and permitted her mind to expand beyond the contracted boundaries of sectarian faith. Her religion was pure and disinterested—no one, therefore, should doubt its intrinsic value, though it had not been coined into a particular form, or received the current impress.
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