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John Andrew is the young son of Tony Last and Brenda Last. A passionate and curious child with an innocent lack of any filter on what he’ll say, he adores horse jumping, which he practices with Ben Hacket. John Andrew likewise adores Ben, though the nanny and Tony worry about Ben’s gruff working-class comportment influencing the boy. As Brenda loses interest in life at Hetton, Tony too becomes increasingly mentally preoccupied with his troubled marriage, and John Andrew thus receives diminishing attention from both parents. In a bitter irony, the great fox hunt which the boy so eagerly anticipated winds up getting him killed in a random accident.
John Andrew Quotes in A Handful of Dust
The A Handful of Dust quotes below are all either spoken by John Andrew or refer to John Andrew . 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 2: English Gothic—I
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“What's all the news?”
“Ben's put the rail up ever so high and Thunderclap and I jumped it six times yesterday and six times again to-day and two more of the fish in the little pond are dead, floating upside down all swollen and nanny burnt her finger on the kettle yesterday and daddy and I saw a fox just as near as anything and he sat quite still and then went away into the wood and I began drawing a picture of a battle only I couldn't finish it because the paints weren't right and the grey carthorse the one that had worms is quite well again”
“Nothing much has happened,” said Tony. “We've missed you. What did you find to do in London all this time?”
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Chapter 3: Hard Cheese on Tony
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“But you can telephone her from here, can't you, daddy? Why did you go all the way to London to telephone her?... Why, daddy?”
“It would take too long to explain.”
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She hit him and the horse collected himself and bolted up the road into the village, but before he went one of his heels struck out and sent John into the ditch, where he lay bent double, perfectly still.
Everyone agreed that it was nobody’s fault.
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She frowned, not at once taking in what he was saying. “John… John Andrew… I… Oh thank God…” Then she burst into tears.
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John Andrew Quotes in A Handful of Dust
The A Handful of Dust quotes below are all either spoken by John Andrew or refer to John Andrew . 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 2: English Gothic—I
Quotes
“What's all the news?”
“Ben's put the rail up ever so high and Thunderclap and I jumped it six times yesterday and six times again to-day and two more of the fish in the little pond are dead, floating upside down all swollen and nanny burnt her finger on the kettle yesterday and daddy and I saw a fox just as near as anything and he sat quite still and then went away into the wood and I began drawing a picture of a battle only I couldn't finish it because the paints weren't right and the grey carthorse the one that had worms is quite well again”
“Nothing much has happened,” said Tony. “We've missed you. What did you find to do in London all this time?”
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Chapter 3: Hard Cheese on Tony
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“But you can telephone her from here, can't you, daddy? Why did you go all the way to London to telephone her?... Why, daddy?”
“It would take too long to explain.”
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She hit him and the horse collected himself and bolted up the road into the village, but before he went one of his heels struck out and sent John into the ditch, where he lay bent double, perfectly still.
Everyone agreed that it was nobody’s fault.
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She frowned, not at once taking in what he was saying. “John… John Andrew… I… Oh thank God…” Then she burst into tears.
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