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1  Calpurnia was to blame for this.
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2  Calpurnia was something else again.
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3  It was then that Calpurnia requested my presence in the kitchen.
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4  Calpurnia always won, mainly because Atticus always took her side.
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5  Atticus said Calpurnia had more education than most colored folks.
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6  Atticus summoned Calpurnia, who returned bearing the syrup pitcher.
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7  She was furious, and when she was furious Calpurnia's grammar became erratic.
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8  Jem ran to the kitchen and asked Calpurnia to set an extra plate, we had company.
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9  Calpurnia sent me through the swinging door to the diningroom with a stinging smack.
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10  We looked at her in surprise, for Calpurnia rarely commented on the ways of white people.
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11  I returned to school and hated Calpurnia steadily until a sudden shriek shattered my resentments.
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12  In Calpurnia's teaching, there was no sentimentality: I seldom pleased her and she seldom rewarded me.
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13  "There goes the meanest man ever God blew breath into," murmured Calpurnia, and she spat meditatively into the yard.
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14  "Everybody who goes home to lunch hold up your hands," said Miss Caroline, breaking into my new grudge against Calpurnia.
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15  I told Calpurnia to just wait, I'd fix her: one of these days when she wasn't looking I'd go off and drown myself in Barker's Eddy and then she'd be sorry.
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16  Jem and Walter returned to school ahead of me: staying behind to advise Atticus of Calpurnia's iniquities was worth a solitary sprint past the Radley Place.
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17  But there came a day when Atticus told us he'd wear us out if we made any noise in the yard and commissioned Calpurnia to serve in his absence if she heard a sound out of us.
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