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A woman who worked as a slave in the House of Hwang at the same time as O-lanOld Lord took her as a concubine. Later, Cuckoo came to run the tea-shop where Lotus was a prostitute. When Wang Lung fell in love with Lotus and brought her to live with him, Cuckoo, always on the lookout for wealth to exploit, came too. O-lan never accepted Cuckoo into her home, and the two lived as bitter enemies.
Cuckoo Quotes in The Good Earth
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Chapter 16
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But all this was not a sudden thing. All during the lifetime of the Old Lord and of his father the fall of this house has been coming. In the last generation the lords ceased to see the land and took the moneys the agents gave them and spent it carelessly as water. And in these generations the strength of the land has gone from them and bit by bit the land has begun to go also.
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Chapter 20
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And Wang Lung... felt his mouth suddenly dry and parched and his voice came from him in a whisper,
“Silver, then! Silver and gold! Anything to the very price of my land!”
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Cuckoo Quotes in The Good Earth
The The Good Earth quotes below are all either spoken by Cuckoo or refer to Cuckoo. 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 16
Quotes
But all this was not a sudden thing. All during the lifetime of the Old Lord and of his father the fall of this house has been coming. In the last generation the lords ceased to see the land and took the moneys the agents gave them and spent it carelessly as water. And in these generations the strength of the land has gone from them and bit by bit the land has begun to go also.
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Chapter 20
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And Wang Lung... felt his mouth suddenly dry and parched and his voice came from him in a whisper,
“Silver, then! Silver and gold! Anything to the very price of my land!”
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