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Widow Ealing
Daughter Jane is Widow Ealing’s daughter. Florens meets Daughter Jane while she shelters in their cottage for the night. Jane has a problem with her eyes, causing the other people in her village to think she is a demon. Widow Ealing cuts Jane’s legs to prove that since she bleeds, she cannot be a demon, but the villagers are uncertain. When the villagers threaten to return later to persecute Florens, who they think is the devil, Jane takes Florens out into the woods, shows her the way to the Blacksmith’s village, and gives her boiled duck eggs to take with her on her trip.
Daughter Jane Quotes in A Mercy
The A Mercy quotes below are all either spoken by Daughter Jane or refer to Daughter Jane. 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 7
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Are you a demon I ask her. Her wayward eye is steady. She smiles. Yes, she says. Oh, yes.
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Chapter 9
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Right away I take fright when I see my face is not there. Where my face should be is nothing…I put my mouth close enough to drink or kiss but I am not even a shadow there. Where is it hiding? Why is it? Soon Daughter Jane is kneeling next to me…Oh, Precious, don’t fret, she is saying, you will find it. Where I ask, where is my face…When I wake a minha mãe is standing by your cot and this time her baby boy is Malaik. He is holding her hand.
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Chapter 11
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You say you see slaves freer than free men. One is a lion in the skin of an ass. The other is an ass in the skin of a lion. That it is the withering inside that enslaves and opens the door for what is wild. I know my withering is born in the Widow’s closet…I cannot stop…wanting to tear you open the way you tear me. Still, there is another thing. A lion who thinks his mane is all. A she-lion who does not. I learn this from Daughter Jane…She risks. Risks all to save the slave you throw out.
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Daughter Jane Quotes in A Mercy
The A Mercy quotes below are all either spoken by Daughter Jane or refer to Daughter Jane. 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 7
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Are you a demon I ask her. Her wayward eye is steady. She smiles. Yes, she says. Oh, yes.
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Chapter 9
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Right away I take fright when I see my face is not there. Where my face should be is nothing…I put my mouth close enough to drink or kiss but I am not even a shadow there. Where is it hiding? Why is it? Soon Daughter Jane is kneeling next to me…Oh, Precious, don’t fret, she is saying, you will find it. Where I ask, where is my face…When I wake a minha mãe is standing by your cot and this time her baby boy is Malaik. He is holding her hand.
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Chapter 11
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You say you see slaves freer than free men. One is a lion in the skin of an ass. The other is an ass in the skin of a lion. That it is the withering inside that enslaves and opens the door for what is wild. I know my withering is born in the Widow’s closet…I cannot stop…wanting to tear you open the way you tear me. Still, there is another thing. A lion who thinks his mane is all. A she-lion who does not. I learn this from Daughter Jane…She risks. Risks all to save the slave you throw out.
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