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Mr. Hines / The Janitor
Mrs. Hines is Milly’s mother and Christmas’s grandmother. A sweet, loving woman, she welcomed Christmas’s birth and was devasted when Mr. Hines took him away. When she finds out that Christmas has been accused of murder, she makes an unsuccessful attempt to stop him being lynched. She is also present at the birth of Lena’s baby, although she enters a kind of delirium and believes Lena is Milly and that the baby is Christmas.
Mrs. Hines Quotes in Light in August
The Light in August quotes below are all either spoken by Mrs. Hines or refer to Mrs. Hines. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 15
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The town looked upon them both as being a little touched—lonely, gray in color, a little smaller than most other men and women, as if they belonged to a different race, species—even though for the next five or six years after the man appeared to have come to Mottstown to settle down for good in the small house where his wife lived, people hired him to do various odd jobs which they considered within his strength.
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Mrs. Hines Quotes in Light in August
The Light in August quotes below are all either spoken by Mrs. Hines or refer to Mrs. Hines. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 15
Quotes
The town looked upon them both as being a little touched—lonely, gray in color, a little smaller than most other men and women, as if they belonged to a different race, species—even though for the next five or six years after the man appeared to have come to Mottstown to settle down for good in the small house where his wife lived, people hired him to do various odd jobs which they considered within his strength.
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