1 Miss Maudie settled her bridgework.
To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper LeeContext In PART 1: Chapter 5 2 Miss Maudie hated her house: time spent indoors was time wasted.
To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper LeeContext In PART 1: Chapter 5 3 "Arthur Radley just stays in the house, that's all," said Miss Maudie.
To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper LeeContext In PART 1: Chapter 5 4 Miss Maudie was the daughter of a neighboring landowner, Dr. Frank Buford.
To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper LeeContext In PART 1: Chapter 5 5 Miss Maudie had known Uncle Jack Finch, Atticus's brother, since they were children.
To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper LeeContext In PART 1: Chapter 5 6 My confidence in pulpit Gospel lessened at the vision of Miss Maudie stewing forever in various Protestant hells.
To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper LeeContext In PART 1: Chapter 5 7 We saw Uncle Jack every Christmas, and every Christmas he yelled across the street for Miss Maudie to come marry him.
To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper LeeContext In PART 1: Chapter 5 8 Jem and I had always enjoyed the free run of Miss Maudie's yard if we kept out of her azaleas, but our contact with her was not clearly defined.
To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper LeeContext In PART 1: Chapter 5 9 Our activities halted when any of the neighbors appeared, and once I saw Miss Maudie Atkinson staring across the street at us, her hedge clippers poised in midair.
To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper LeeContext In PART 1: Chapter 4 10 Apparently deciding that it was easier to define primitive baptistry than closed communion, Miss Maudie said: "Foot-washers believe anything that's pleasure is a sin."
To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper LeeContext In PART 1: Chapter 5 11 She boarded across the street one door down from us in Miss Maudie Atkinson's upstairs front room, and when Miss Maudie introduced us to her, Jem was in a haze for days.
To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper LeeContext In PART 1: Chapter 2 12 Miss Maudie's benevolence extended to Jem and Dill, whenever they paused in their pursuits: we reaped the benefits of a talent Miss Maudie had hitherto kept hidden from us.
To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper LeeContext In PART 1: Chapter 5 13 But I kept aloof from their more foolhardy schemes for a while, and on pain of being called a girl, I spent most of the remaining twilights that summer sitting with Miss Maudie Atkinson on her front porch.
To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper LeeContext In PART 1: Chapter 5 14 Plucking an occasional camellia, getting a squirt of hot milk from Miss Maudie Atkinson's cow on a summer day, helping ourselves to someone's scuppernongs was part of our ethical culture, but money was different.
To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper LeeContext In PART 1: Chapter 4 15 Often as not, Miss Maudie and I would sit silently on her porch, watching the sky go from yellow to pink as the sun went down, watching flights of martins sweep low over the neighborhood and disappear behind the schoolhouse rooftops.
To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper LeeContext In PART 1: Chapter 5 16 He said he was trying to get Miss Maudie's goat, that he had been trying unsuccessfully for forty years, that he was the last person in the world Miss Maudie would think about marrying but the first person she thought about teasing, and the best defense to her was spirited offense, all of which we understood clearly.
To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper LeeContext In PART 1: Chapter 5 17 Our tacit treaty with Miss Maudie was that we could play on her lawn, eat her scuppernongs if we didn't jump on the arbor, and explore her vast back lot, terms so generous we seldom spoke to her, so careful were we to preserve the delicate balance of our relationship, but Jem and Dill drove me closer to her with their behavior.
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