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Mrs. Hubbard is an older American woman who presumably travels to support charitable and educational causes abroad. Her endless gossip and nosiness, as well as her cultural chauvinism, marks her as distinctively American to some of the other passengers. Poirot later identifies her as the famous actress Linda Arden, Daisy Armstrong’s grandmother. Hubbard is revealed as a linchpin of the conspiracy to kill Ratchett. The passengers enter his compartment through hers, and her mock-hysteria on discovering new pieces of evidence is responsible for misleading Poirot and taking heat off the other conspirators.
Mrs. Hubbard Quotes in Murder on the Orient Express
The Murder on the Orient Express quotes below are all either spoken by Mrs. Hubbard or refer to Mrs. Hubbard. 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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Part 1 Chapter 3
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"It is—they must—how do you say?—serve the water of the country," explained the sheep-faced lady.
"Well, it seems queer to me." She looked distastefully at the heap of small change on the table in front of her. "Look at all this peculiar stuff he's given me. Dinars or something. Just a lot of rubbish, it looks like!”
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Part 3 Chapter 9
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“I would have stabbed that man twelve times willingly. It wasn't only that he was responsible for my daughter's death and her child's and that of the other child who might have been alive and happy now. It was more than that: there had been other children kidnapped before Daisy, and there might be others in the future. Society had condemned him—we were only carrying out the sentence.”
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Mrs. Hubbard Quotes in Murder on the Orient Express
The Murder on the Orient Express quotes below are all either spoken by Mrs. Hubbard or refer to Mrs. Hubbard. 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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Part 1 Chapter 3
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"It is—they must—how do you say?—serve the water of the country," explained the sheep-faced lady.
"Well, it seems queer to me." She looked distastefully at the heap of small change on the table in front of her. "Look at all this peculiar stuff he's given me. Dinars or something. Just a lot of rubbish, it looks like!”
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Part 3 Chapter 9
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“I would have stabbed that man twelve times willingly. It wasn't only that he was responsible for my daughter's death and her child's and that of the other child who might have been alive and happy now. It was more than that: there had been other children kidnapped before Daisy, and there might be others in the future. Society had condemned him—we were only carrying out the sentence.”
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