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Alexander Morden
A local villager who is widowed after her husband, Alexander Morden, is executed by firing squad for having killed Captain Bentick. When Mayor Orden secretly organizes an escape plan for two local men, Will and Tom Anders, he uses Molly’s house as a safe place to speak with the two fugitives. Despite Orden’s belief that Molly’s house is safe, though, the meeting is interrupted by Lieutenant Tonder, who has taken a liking to Molly after watching her in the streets, deciding she must be a kind woman. Tonder tells Molly in a previous meeting (right before Mayor Orden arrives) that he wants to “forget the war … just for a little while” so that he and she can “talk together like people.” What Tonder has failed to remember is that he was the one to command the firing squad that killed Molly’s husband. When he returns to her house later, Molly stabs him to death with a pair of scissors and then flees town.
Molly Morden Quotes in The Moon is Down
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Chapter 6
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He sat down. “I’m sorry.” After a moment he said, “I wish I could do something. I’ll have the snow pushed off the roof.”
“No,” said Molly, “no.”
“Why not?”
“Because the people would think I had joined with you. They would expel me. I don’t want to be expelled.”
Tonder said, “Yes, I see how that would be. You all hate us. But I’ll take care of you if you’ll let me.”
Now Molly knew she was in control, and her eyes narrowed a little cruelly and she said, “Why do you ask? You are the conqueror. Your men don’t have to ask. They take what they want.”
“That’s not what I want,” Tonder said. “That’s not the way I want it.”
And Molly laughed, still a little cruelly. “You want me to like you, don’t you, Lieutenant?”
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Molly Morden Quotes in The Moon is Down
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Chapter 6
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He sat down. “I’m sorry.” After a moment he said, “I wish I could do something. I’ll have the snow pushed off the roof.”
“No,” said Molly, “no.”
“Why not?”
“Because the people would think I had joined with you. They would expel me. I don’t want to be expelled.”
Tonder said, “Yes, I see how that would be. You all hate us. But I’ll take care of you if you’ll let me.”
Now Molly knew she was in control, and her eyes narrowed a little cruelly and she said, “Why do you ask? You are the conqueror. Your men don’t have to ask. They take what they want.”
“That’s not what I want,” Tonder said. “That’s not the way I want it.”
And Molly laughed, still a little cruelly. “You want me to like you, don’t you, Lieutenant?”
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