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Lord Trimingham the Ninth Viscount / Hugh
Marcus is the school friend of Leo’s who invites him to Brandham Hall to stay with his family. He is a typical schoolboy, often play-fighting with Leo and calling him names. He also had a tendency to gossip—it’s Marcus who tells Leo of Marian and Trimingham’s engagement, and, suspects Leo, Marcus is the probable source of the information that leads Mrs. Maudsley to the discovery of Marian and Ted’s affair. Marcus also has a great distaste for the working-class villagers in the area (of which Ted is one); when he has to spend time with them in the village hall, he tells Leo afterwards that their smell very nearly made him throw up. Marcus is, in a way, more important for his absence than his presence in the novel: when he contracts measles at the start of the summer, Leo is set free from the constraints of playing with his friend and is able to roam around the estate alone, setting in motion the events that lead to the novel’s traumatic climax. After the events at Brandham Hall, Marcus doesn’t pay Leo much attention at school. The elderly Marian informs Leo that Marcus then died in service during the first World War.
Marcus Maudsley Quotes in The Go-Between
The The Go-Between quotes below are all either spoken by Marcus Maudsley or refer to Marcus Maudsley. 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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Chapter 13
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“Phew! Three times I nearly had to cat…And you looked so pi, Leo, really dreadfully pi. So did everybody, while you were singing that church thing about the angels taking care of you. They all looked as if they were thinking about their dear dead ones, and Burgess looked as if he might be going to blub. Of course it’s difficult to know how Trimingham feels because of his face, but he didn’t half crack you up to Mama. He’ll eat out of your hand now.
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Chapter 17
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“Green, green mon pauvre imbécile, bright green...et savez-vous pourquoi? Parce que vous êtes vert vous-même—you are green yourself, as the poor old English say…it is your true colour, Marian said so.” And he began to dance around me, chanting “Green, green, green.”
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Marcus Maudsley Quotes in The Go-Between
The The Go-Between quotes below are all either spoken by Marcus Maudsley or refer to Marcus Maudsley. 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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Chapter 13
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“Phew! Three times I nearly had to cat…And you looked so pi, Leo, really dreadfully pi. So did everybody, while you were singing that church thing about the angels taking care of you. They all looked as if they were thinking about their dear dead ones, and Burgess looked as if he might be going to blub. Of course it’s difficult to know how Trimingham feels because of his face, but he didn’t half crack you up to Mama. He’ll eat out of your hand now.
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Chapter 17
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“Green, green mon pauvre imbécile, bright green...et savez-vous pourquoi? Parce que vous êtes vert vous-même—you are green yourself, as the poor old English say…it is your true colour, Marian said so.” And he began to dance around me, chanting “Green, green, green.”
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