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The Cone Gatherers Flashcards

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“We’re human…

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…beings just like them.”

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“hated these cones, which…

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…kept them prisoner in the wood just as the snare held the rabbit.”
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“alert and…

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…beautiful with trust”

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“an icy…

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…sweat of hatred”

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“his stronghold…

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…and sanctuary”

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“fortify his…

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…sanity and hope”

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“been repelled by…

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…anything living that had an imperfection or deformity or lack.”
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“the silent tribulation of the past twenty years, an accumulated…

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…horror, which the arrival of these cone-gatherers seemed at last about to let loose.”
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“Therefore what Duror heard was a roaring…

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…within him, as if that tree of hatred and revulsion was being tossed by a gale.”
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“Duror was alone…

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…in his obsession.”

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“looked at them…

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…as heroes”

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“shy, honest,…

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…hard-working, respectable men.”

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“never cease to…

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…torment him.”

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14
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“Duror’s voice was as stripped…

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…of emotion as a winter tree.”

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“his smile faded:…

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…a profound bleakness took its place.”

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“The sweetness of her youth…

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…still haunting amidst the great wobbling masses of pallid fat that composed her face and added to her grotesqueness”
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17
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“he should envy so misbegotten…

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…and godforsaken an imbecile as the humpback was surely the ultimate horror, madness itself?”
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“It was a morning that seemed…

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…to beguile the mind with reflections of a time of innocence before evil and unhappiness were born.”
Chapter 3

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“weak in body and…

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….complicated in mind.”

Chapter 3

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“It doesn’t occur to her…

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….I might be empty of affection altogether”

Chapter 3

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“the contradiction between her…

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…emulsion of Christ and her eminence as a baronet’s wife.”

Chapter 4

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“resolution to torment the…

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…cone-gatherers and destroy them.”

Chapter 4

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“Calum could not concentrate…

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…on the cones. He became like an animal in danger with no way of escape.”
Chapter 5

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“The trees are more precious…

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…than we are.”

Chapter 5

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“was like a tree still straight,…

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…still showing green leaves but underground death was still creeping along the roots.”
Chapter 5

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“Suddenly it was as if the burden…

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…of misery was lifted from him.”

Chapter 6

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“Calum flung himself…

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…upon the deer, clasped it round the neck, and tried to comfort it.”
Chapter 6

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“For many years his life had been stunted,…

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…misshapen, obscene, and hideous; and this misbegotten creature was its personification
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“His going therefore…

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…must be destruction, an agony, a crucifixion.”

Chapter 6

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“Neil’s dignity and composure,…

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…proper to a sea-captain, crumbled into the objectness of a peasant.”
Chapter 7

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“We didn’t treat..

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… them fairly.”

Chapter 8

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“Human beings are more…

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…important than dogs.”

Chapter 8

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“Haven’t we got a right…

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…to keep ourselves alive.”

Chapter 11

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Chapter 12

35
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“where, salvation lay: at Scour Point,…

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…gathering cones, were men who better than anyone else could help her son down.”
Chapter 15

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“she cannot one day treat us as…

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…lowe than dogs, and next day order us to do her bidding-“

Chapter 16

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“You always did think yourself a lord…

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…among men. Maybe what happened to your wife was a punishment for your pride.”
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38
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“walking away among the pine trees…

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…with so infinite a desolution in his every step.”

Chapter 16

39
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“Though he smiled,…

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…he was dead.”

Chapter 16

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“she could not pray,…

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…but she could weep; and as she wept pity and purified hope, and joy, welled up in her heart.”
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