Old Willis Place Flashcards
I giggled. “He sounds like the heron we see at the pond.”
The Old Willis Place by Mary Hahn
Oak Hill Manor was the setting for this story.
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“Miss Lilian was the snake in the garden, the witch in the gingerbread house, someone to fear even though she was dead.”
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“I knew at a glance he wasn’t like the other caretakers.”
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“He was the sort who noticed things.”
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“But don’t you miss friends and–”
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Diana asking Georgie after seeing the new caretaker and his daughter (Lissa) arrive.
“What am I supposed to do while you sit at your computer?”
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Lissa to her father when they first arrive; he plans to finish his novel.
Heron Man is the nickname given to a character in this book.
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Heron Man is Mr. Morrison, the caretaker and Lissa’s father.
“What’s wrong with her? She should be happy she doesn’t have to go to school.”
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Georgie, surprised that Lissa wants to go to school.
“She’d be a good friend, if only–if only, if only, if only.”
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In this book, the main characters take a copy of “Lassie Comes Home” from someone else to read.
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“It wouldn’t be much of a story if everyone got to be happy right away.”
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Diana referring to “Lassie Come Home,” but the statement also applies to their lives.
“Diaries are secret books. You put your deepest thoughts and most private feelings in them, things you don’t want anyone else to know.”
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“She knew nothing of the danger lurking behind those locked doors and boarded windows.”
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“She sat on a stone bench supported by two crouching lions, their faces streaked with dark stains like tears. It used to be my special seat, my throne.”
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Diana watching Lissa sit outside Oak Hill Manor before Diana meets Lissa.
“Promise me you won’t talk to her.”
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Georgie pleads to Diana not to talk to Lissa
“Did anyone really care if she saw me? Would they even know? Maybe it was time to test the rules.”
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Lissa
“She’d been scared of me, repulsed. She’d called me a thief, sicced her dog on me. I didn’t want to be her friend anymore.”
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“She was wilder and stranger than ever, her hair long and tangled, her clothes in rags.”
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Diana encounters Miss Lilian
“I want my bear. . . Bring him back and we can be friends.”
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Lissa’s mother had given her the bear.
“Thanks to you, the rules are busted.”
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“He smiled to show he was teasing, but I didn’t trust him. He’d start asking questions any minute now.”
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Diana about Mr. Morrison
“Trust me, there is no ghost in that house. Snakes and spiders and mice. Squirrels. Bats. But no ghost–I guarantee it.”
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“Secret friends forever,” she whispered solemnly. “Your parents will never see me, never know about me. I promise.”
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Diana allows Lissa to believe she and Georgie live in the housing development across the road from the Old Willis Place.
“Roy Rogers isn’t a movie star. It’s a fast-food place.”
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Lissa had asked Diana about her favorite actor. Diana’s answer is very out of date.
“I know where he keeps the key to the house. Guess what I plan to do while Dad’s out???”
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Lissa’s diary entry
“I told you, he doesn’t hate you. He’s just scared of breaking the rules and being punished.”
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Lissa wonders why Georgie isn’t nice to her.
“It was such fun to tease the old woman. Didn’t she deserve it?”
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“Let the girl open the door. You and I have business to settle, miss.”
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Miss Lilian to Diana
“I don’t know how I’ll get a single night’s sleep as long as we live here.”
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Lissa after finding Miss Lilian’s ghost.
“I told you something horrible would happen. I told you and told you and told you!”
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Georgie
“We cried and shouted for Mother and Daddy, we pounded on the door till our fists ached, but no one heard us. No one came. No one let us out.”
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The story of what happened to Diana and Georgie in the cellar.
“At first I’d thought we must be in heaven, but when I looked around, I realized we were still on the farm.”
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“Well, that’s that. Almost a hundred years old and not a soul to mourn her.”
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“Two children disappeared from the farm, a boy and a girl. The police searched everywhere, but they were never found. To this day no one knows what happened to them.”
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“She should’ve stopped me, she should’ve told me what was in the cellar.”
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The music of Moonlight Sonata (Beethoven) is heard several times in this story, the favorite music of an old woman.
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“Through the woods, across fields and streams, uphill and down, we ran and she followed, calling us again and again.”
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“A stroke! You upset me, my blood pressure shot up, I collapsed at the top of the cellar steps.”
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The old woman in this story was descended from one of the oldest families in Maryland.
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At the end of this book, the main characters apologize for behaviors from years earlier.
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“Which means ghosts are not at all what I imagined them to be. Not transparent, not spooky, not phantoms of the night but real and solid, with shadows and everything.”
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“And keep my eyes peeled, as people say–which is a very weird expression when you think about it. Eyes peeled like grapes. Ugh.”
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From Lissa’s diary entry
“In fact, you might say she was the best-known dog in the village–and for three reasons.”
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Diana, reading from “Lassie”
“It’s a book for adults,” I said. “And probably boring–even with cussing in it.”
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Diana and Georgie talking about the book Mr. Morrison is writing.
“She’d called me a thief. Me, a thief. Didn’t she know the difference between stealing and borrowing?”
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“She knew nothing of the danger lurking behind those locked doors and boarded windows.”
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“Don’t scratch. You’ll make them worse.” He pulled away. “I’ll scratch if I want to. What does it matter, anyway?”
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Diana tells Georgie not to scratch his mosquito bites.
“If you’re bored, go away and do something else. I don’t care.”
“If I leave, how do I know you won’t go over there and start talking to her?”
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“Maybe he’d tell her to stay away from the old house. Maybe he’d remind her of what the policeman had said about the woods.”
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“We’d swap funny stories that made us laugh till our ribs ached. I’d tell her about Stephen and that kiss.”
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“It was really and truly hideous. And it was coming straight toward me.”
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Lissa, writing in her diary, when she first saw Diana.
“I’d forgotten how they looked–torn by brambles, stained and faded to the color of earth and moss, fluttering in rags and tatters.”
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Diana realizing how she looked to Lissa
In this book, a main character has an old black cat.
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Nero
“Go away, thief. You’re after my jewelry, but you won’t get it. Not while there’s breath in my body.”
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“The truck stopped at the gate and mother stepped out to open it.”
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“‘Hush.’ I covered his mouth with my hand.”
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“Can I trust you to sit here and work on those problems while I go inside and write?”
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“‘No,’ I pulled away from her.”
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