The Cone-Gatherers Quotations v2 Flashcards
Duror looks at Calum in
an icy sweat of hatred
Duror points his gun at the
feebleminded hunchback
When it comes to the Nazis, Duror
profoundly approved [of the gassing of] idiots and cripples
In the opening of the novel, we see Calum as
Chaffinches fluttered around him
Calum was confused as to
why creatures he loved should kill one another
Duror feels that Calum’s death must be
a destruction, an agony, a crucifixion
When Calum was shot,
Though he smiled, he was dead.
During the novel’s climax, Duror walked
with so infinite a desolation in his every step
Lady Runcie-Campbell thinks that Calum suffers from
abnormal squeamishness
When it comes to Calum’s objection to being a beater, Lady Runcie-Campbell
can’t recognise principle in this case
Duror notes on Lady Runcie-Campbell that
within her was a struggle between her Christian sympathy for the weak-minded hunchback and her pride as a patrician
When Duror was telling the beaters what to do, his
vague yet eager mumbles contrasted with his usual cool instructions
Duror cut the deer’s throat
savagely
For Calum, Roderick had an
immense admiration
When trying to give the brothers a lift home, Roderick tells his mother that
Human beings are more important than dogs
Roderick attempts to bring the brothers
his cake of friendship
Sheila notes, when Roderick is up the tree, that
he was meaning to collect the cones, like those men from Ardmore.
After the deer drive, Roderick cries out
But that’s not fair, mother.
Lady Runcie-Campbell sees the brothers in her beach hut as
trespassers
Roderick sees the fire in the beach hut as
their fire
Lady Runcie-Campbell tells Roderick, when discussing Neil and Calum, that
Obviously, in any way you like to look at them, they are our inferiors.
Tulloch, when speaking to Neil about Lady Runcie-Campbell, says
She’s a good woman really; but she’s got a code to live by.
When rushing off for Neil during the novel’s climax, Lady Runcie-Campbell thinks to herself
As a mother, as a landowner, as a Christian even, surely she was justified?
Neil tells Graham that
A man can surrender only so far.
When Roderick enters the woods,
A knot in the tree glowered like a green face.
Calum has a
face so beautiful and guileless as to be a diabolical joke
During the deer drive, after Calum spotted the shot deer,
Calum flung himself upon the deer, clasped it round the neck, and tried to comfort it.
When Calum holds the doll in the beach hut,
It was a small wooden doll, naked, with a comical red cheeked face; one leg was missing.
In Duror’s hands, Lady Runcie-Campbell thinks that the doll is an
obscene symbol
When going after Calum during the novel’s climax, Duror is
stalking
When Lady Runcie-Campbell saw who her son greeted in Lendrick, she
gasped in astonishment
Roderick feels that his mission to deliver his cake is
as important as life itself
Roderick brings the brothers cake to save them from the
spite of Duror
