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Marcus Maudsley
Mrs. Maudsley is the hawkeyed matriarch of Brandham Hall. Most days, she dictates proceedings and is much more dominating than her husband, Mr. Maudsley. She prefers things to be ordered and structured, and is the architect behind the engagement of Marian to Trimingham. That said, she is also prone to bouts of “nervous exhaustion” usually brought on when things don’t go her way. She is suspicious of Marian and comes to suspect Leo, too, of somehow facilitating her daughter’s deception. Such is the shock of discovering Marian’s rebellion that Mrs. Maudsley screams relentlessly and never recovers.
Mrs. Maudsley Quotes in The Go-Between
The The Go-Between quotes below are all either spoken by Mrs. Maudsley or refer to Mrs. 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 23
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To demonstrate my knowledge I began to tell her about the Deadly Nightshade, and then stopped. I found I did not want to speak about it. But she was only half listening.
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“No, you shall come,” she said, and seized my hand, and it was then we saw them, together on the ground, the Virgin and the Water-Carrier, two bodies moving like one. I think I was more mystified than horrified; it was Mrs. Maudsley’s repeated screams that frightened me, and a shadow on the wall that opened and closed like an umbrella.
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Mrs. Maudsley Quotes in The Go-Between
The The Go-Between quotes below are all either spoken by Mrs. Maudsley or refer to Mrs. 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 23
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To demonstrate my knowledge I began to tell her about the Deadly Nightshade, and then stopped. I found I did not want to speak about it. But she was only half listening.
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“No, you shall come,” she said, and seized my hand, and it was then we saw them, together on the ground, the Virgin and the Water-Carrier, two bodies moving like one. I think I was more mystified than horrified; it was Mrs. Maudsley’s repeated screams that frightened me, and a shadow on the wall that opened and closed like an umbrella.
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