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Adelaide is a Guernsey islander who takes it upon herself to police the morals and righteousness of everyone on the island. She writes Juliet to tell her that Kit is an illegitimate child fathered by a Nazi, and that Kit's birth was improper—Dawsey and Amelia acted as midwives. She finds it repugnant that the Society members all care for Kit in turn and implores Juliet to not write about the Society, as she believes it's a sham. From others, Juliet learns that nobody knows why Adelaide is so horrible. She hates fun and anyone who isn't extremely humble. Though she tells Juliet all about how Elizabeth used to watch people through a telescope as a child, Adelaide isn't above spying on Juliet with her opera glasses. Isola writes Juliet and tells her that when the Guernsey children were being evacuated, Adelaide told the children to pray and to behave so that if their parents died, their parents could be proud of them. Elizabeth slapped her for this.
Miss Adelaide Addison Quotes in The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
The The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society quotes below are all either spoken by Miss Adelaide Addison or refer to Miss Adelaide Addison. 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: 12 Mar, 1946
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Though I had little hope of success, I knew it was my duty to warn her of the fate that awaited her. I told her she would be cast out of decent society, but she did not heed me. In fact, she laughed. I bore it. Then she told me to get out of her house.
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The principal work of the baby's maintenance was undertaken by Amelia Maugery, with other Society members taking her out—like a library book—for several weeks at a time.
They all dandled the baby, and now that the child can walk, she goes everywhere with one or another of them—holding hands or riding on their shoulders. Such are their standards!
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Part 1: 22 Apr, 1946
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The States didn't want the parents to come into the school itself—too crowded and too sad. Better to say good-byes outside. One child crying might set them all off.
So it was strangers who tied up shoelaces, wiped noses, put a nametag around each child's neck. We did up buttons and played games with them until the buses could come.
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Miss Adelaide Addison Quotes in The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
The The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society quotes below are all either spoken by Miss Adelaide Addison or refer to Miss Adelaide Addison. 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: 12 Mar, 1946
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Though I had little hope of success, I knew it was my duty to warn her of the fate that awaited her. I told her she would be cast out of decent society, but she did not heed me. In fact, she laughed. I bore it. Then she told me to get out of her house.
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The principal work of the baby's maintenance was undertaken by Amelia Maugery, with other Society members taking her out—like a library book—for several weeks at a time.
They all dandled the baby, and now that the child can walk, she goes everywhere with one or another of them—holding hands or riding on their shoulders. Such are their standards!
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Part 1: 22 Apr, 1946
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The States didn't want the parents to come into the school itself—too crowded and too sad. Better to say good-byes outside. One child crying might set them all off.
So it was strangers who tied up shoelaces, wiped noses, put a nametag around each child's neck. We did up buttons and played games with them until the buses could come.
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