The Cone-Gatherers Quotations v2

Question 1

Duror looks at Calum in

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an icy sweat of hatred

Question 2

Duror points his gun at the

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feebleminded hunchback

Question 3

When it comes to the Nazis, Duror

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profoundly approved [of the gassing of] idiots and cripples

Question 4

In the opening of the novel, we see Calum as

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Chaffinches fluttered around him

Question 5

Calum was confused as to

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why creatures he loved should kill one another

Question 6

Duror feels that Calum’s death must be

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a destruction, an agony, a crucifixion

Question 7

When Calum was shot,

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Though he smiled, he was dead.

Question 8

During the novel’s climax, Duror walked

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with so infinite a desolation in his every step

Question 9

Lady Runcie-Campbell thinks that Calum suffers from

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abnormal squeamishness

Question 10

When it comes to Calum’s objection to being a beater, Lady Runcie-Campbell

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can’t recognise principle in this case

Question 11

Duror notes on Lady Runcie-Campbell that

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within her was a struggle between her Christian sympathy for the weak-minded hunchback and her pride as a patrician

Question 12

When Duror was telling the beaters what to do, his

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vague yet eager mumbles contrasted with his usual cool instructions

Question 13

Duror cut the deer’s throat

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savagely

Question 14

For Calum, Roderick had an

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immense admiration

Question 15

When trying to give the brothers a lift home, Roderick tells his mother that

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Human beings are more important than dogs

Question 16

Roderick attempts to bring the brothers

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his cake of friendship

Question 17

Sheila notes, when Roderick is up the tree, that

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he was meaning to collect the cones, like those men from Ardmore.

Question 18

After the deer drive, Roderick cries out

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But that’s not fair, mother.

Question 19

Lady Runcie-Campbell sees the brothers in her beach hut as

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trespassers

Question 20

Roderick sees the fire in the beach hut as

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their fire

Question 21

Lady Runcie-Campbell tells Roderick, when discussing Neil and Calum, that

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Obviously, in any way you like to look at them, they are our inferiors.

Question 22

Tulloch, when speaking to Neil about Lady Runcie-Campbell, says

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She’s a good woman really; but she’s got a code to live by.

Question 23

When rushing off for Neil during the novel’s climax, Lady Runcie-Campbell thinks to herself

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As a mother, as a landowner, as a Christian even, surely she was justified?

Question 24

Neil tells Graham that

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A man can surrender only so far.

Question 25

When Roderick enters the woods,

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A knot in the tree glowered like a green face.

Question 26

Calum has a

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face so beautiful and guileless as to be a diabolical joke

Question 27

During the deer drive, after Calum spotted the shot deer,

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Calum flung himself upon the deer, clasped it round the neck, and tried to comfort it.

Question 28

When Calum holds the doll in the beach hut,

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It was a small wooden doll, naked, with a comical red cheeked face; one leg was missing.

Question 29

In Duror’s hands, Lady Runcie-Campbell thinks that the doll is an

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obscene symbol

Question 30

When going after Calum during the novel’s climax, Duror is

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stalking

Question 31

When Lady Runcie-Campbell saw who her son greeted in Lendrick, she

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gasped in astonishment

Question 32

Roderick feels that his mission to deliver his cake is

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as important as life itself

Question 33

Roderick brings the brothers cake to save them from the

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spite of Duror