Patience Collier: Mrs. Poulteney
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Quotes
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Mrs. Poulteney : You are a cunning, wicked creature!
Sarah : May I know of what I am accused?
Mrs. Poulteney : You have been seen walking on the Undercliff! Not twice, but thrice!
Sarah : But what, pray, is the sin in that?
Mrs. Poulteney : The sin? You, a young woman alone, in such a place?
Sarah : It is nothing but a large wood.
Mrs. Poulteney : I know very well what it is. And what goes on there, the sort of person who frequents it.
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Mrs. Poulteney : The post of companion requires a person of irreproachable moral character. I have my servants to consider.
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Mrs. Poulteney : You speak French, I believe?
Sarah : I do, ma'am.
Mrs. Poulteney : I do not like the French.
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Mrs. Poulteney : Mr Forsythe informs me that you - retain an attachment to a - foreign person. I have heard from the most impeccable witnesses that you're always to be seen at the same place when you're out. You stand on the Cobb and look to sea. I have been encouraged to believe that you're in a state of repentance; but, I must emphasize that such staring out to sea is provocative, intolerable, and sinful.
Sarah : If you consider me unsuitable for this position, Mrs. Poulteney, do you wish me to leave the house?
Mrs. Poulteney : I wish you to show - that this person - is expunged from your heart!
Sarah : How am I to show it?
Mrs. Poulteney : By not exhibiting your shame!
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Mrs. Poulteney : Mr Smithson, even a disciple of Darwin, such as I understand you to be, could not fail to notice the rise of the animal about us. It no doubt pleases you, since it would accord with your view that we're all monkeys!
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Ernestina : I must say, Mrs Poulteney, you look exceedingly well.
Mrs. Poulteney : At my age, Miss Freeman, spiritual health is all that counts.
Ernestina : Then I have no fears for you.
Mrs. Poulteney : With gross disorders on the streets, it becomes ever more necessary to protect the sacredness of one's beliefs.
