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1  "Come closer," said Mrs. Dubose.
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2  "Aw, it's Saturday, Mrs. Dubose," said Jem.
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3  "Let 'em both in, Jessie," said Mrs. Dubose.'
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4  Mrs. Dubose was stationed on her porch when we went by.
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5  In the corner of the room was a brass bed, and in the bed was Mrs. Dubose.
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6  Except for her remarks about Atticus, Mrs. Dubose's attack was only routine.
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7  I strongly advise you to go down and have a talk with Mrs. Dubose, said Atticus.
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8  Countless evenings Atticus would find Jem furious at something Mrs. Dubose had said when we went by.
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9  When Jem came to a word he didn't know, he skipped it, but Mrs. Dubose would catch him and make him spell it out.
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10  I wasn't sure what Jem resented most, but I took umbrage at Mrs. Dubose's assessment of the family's mental hygiene.
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11  The following Monday afternoon Jem and I climbed the steep front steps to Mrs. Dubose's house and padded down the open hallway.
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12  Mrs. Dubose lived two doors up the street from us; neighborhood opinion was unanimous that Mrs. Dubose was the meanest old woman who ever lived.
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13  As he read along, I noticed that Mrs. Dubose's corrections grew fewer and farther between, that Jem had even left one sentence dangling in mid-air.
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14  The Radley Place was inhabited by an unknown entity the mere description of whom was enough to make us behave for days on end; Mrs. Dubose was plain hell.
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15  He did not begin to calm down until he had cut the tops off every camellia bush Mrs. Dubose owned, until the ground was littered with green buds and leaves.
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16  Mrs. Dubose lived alone except for a Negro girl in constant attendance, two doors up the street from us in a house with steep front steps and a dog-trot hall.
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17  We had just come to her gate when Jem snatched my baton and ran flailing wildly up the steps into Mrs. Dubose's front yard, forgetting everything Atticus had said, forgetting that she packed a pistol under her shawls, forgetting that if Mrs. Dubose missed, her girl Jessie probably wouldn't.
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