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Elizabeth Bradford
Colonel Bradford is the head of Eyam’s local family of gentry. Prideful and arrogant, he scorns the common people for whom he is supposed to take care. When the plague strikes, he immediately flees with his whole family, ignoring Mompellion’s pleas to embrace altruism and a sense of social duty.
Colonel Bradford Quotes in Year of Wonders
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Part 3: Apple-Picking Time
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Why, I wondered, had the surgeon abandoned this case as hopeless? Had he persevered here he could easily have done what I was about to attempt. It came to me then that he must have arrived under instruction to be negligent.
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Colonel Bradford Quotes in Year of Wonders
The Year of Wonders quotes below are all either spoken by Colonel Bradford or refer to Colonel Bradford. 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 3: Apple-Picking Time
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Why, I wondered, had the surgeon abandoned this case as hopeless? Had he persevered here he could easily have done what I was about to attempt. It came to me then that he must have arrived under instruction to be negligent.
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