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21 " All the rest of it has been so nice and even. And look at this! It's all over the place! Why, it looks as if she didn't know what she was about! (After she has said this they look at each other, then start to glance back at the door. After an instant MRS HALE has pulled at a knot and ripped the sewing.) "
― Susan Glaspell , Plays by Susan Glaspell
22 " I—I've never liked this place. Maybe because it's down in a hollow and you don't see the road. "
23 " But he was a hard man, Mrs Peters. Just to pass the time of day with him—(shivers) Like a raw wind that gets to the bone, "
24 " She—come to think of it, she was kind of like a bird herself—real sweet and pretty, but kind of timid and—fluttery. "
25 " No, Wright wouldn't like the bird—a thing that sang. She used to sing. He killed that, too. "
26 " Little dictionary sprite, sunshine vendor, and girl to be loved. "
― Susan Glaspell
27 " Come, little one, and let us learn of love. "
28 " though I said to Harry that I didn't know as what his wife wanted made much difference to John— "
29 " She moved from that chair to this one over here (pointing to a small chair in the corner) "
30 " You're convinced that there was nothing important here—nothing that would point to any motive. SHERIFF: Nothing here but kitchen things. "
31 " After all, you didn't stay what your people were. No, it was what you were yourself that counted - why, that was the very foundation of America, thought Brook. "
― Susan Glaspell , Brook Evans
32 " Mrs. Hale, still leaning against the door, had that sinking feeling of the mother whose child is about to speak a piece. Lewis often wandered along and got things mixed up in a story. She hoped he would tell this straight and plain, and not say unnecessary things that would just make things harder for Minnie Foster. "
― Susan Glaspell , A Jury Of Her Peers
33 " And keep your eye out, Mrs. Peters, for anything that might be of use. No telling; you women might come upon a clue to the motive—and that's the thing we need." Mr. Hale rubbed his face after the fashion of a show man getting ready for a pleasantry. "But would the women know a clue if they did come upon it?" he said; and, having delivered himself of this, he followed the others through the stair door. "
34 " She stopped. It was as if her mind tripped on something. Her eye was caught by a dish-towel in the middle of the kitchen table. Slowly she moved toward the table. One half of it was wiped clean, the other half messy. Her eyes made a slow, almost unwilling turn to the bucket of sugar and the half empty bag beside it. Things begun—and not finished. "
35 " Oh, well," said Mrs. Hale's husband, with good-natured superiority, "women are used to worrying over trifles." The two women moved a little closer together. "
36 " Then she looked again, and she wasn't so sure; in fact, she hadn't at any time been perfectly sure about Mrs. Peters. She had that shrinking manner, and yet her eyes looked as if they could see a long way into things. "
37 " Mrs. Hale had not moved. "If there had been years and years of—nothing, then a bird to sing to you, it would be awful—still—after the bird was still. "
38 " I might 'a' known she needed help! I tell you, it's queer, Mrs. Peters. We live close together, and we live far apart. We all go through the same things—it's all just a different kind of the same thing! If it weren't—why do you and I understand? Why do we know—what we know this minute? "
39 " We all go through the same things—it's all just a different kind of the same thing! "
40 " No, Mrs. Peters doesn’t need supervising. For that matter, a sheriff’s wife is married to the law. "