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Willard
Scully is one of the indentured servants that belongs to the owner of a nearby cattle farm. Scully and his friend (and sometimes romantic partner) Willard often do work on the Vaark farm. Scully belonged to a group of clergymen until he was twelve, when one of the clergymen he was sleeping with blamed him for their sexual relationship. Scully was then sold up north. Scully plans on eventually obtaining his freedom and buying a horse. Scully and Willard help Jacob build his new, enormous house. They then dig Jacob’s grave when he dies. Scully and Willard also help Sorrow deliver her baby. After Jacob’s death, Scully and Willard help Rebekka keep up the farm.
Scully Quotes in A Mercy
The A Mercy quotes below are all either spoken by Scully or refer to Scully. 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 8
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Although all her life she had been saved by men— Captain, the sawyers’ sons, Sir and now Will and Scully— she was convinced that this time she had done something, something important, by herself.
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Chapter 10
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Thus her change from “have me always” to “don’t touch me ever” seemed to him as predictable as it was marked.
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They once thought they were a kind of family because together they had carved companionship out of isolation. But the family they imagined they had become was false. Whatever each one loved, sought or escaped, their futures were separate and anyone’s guess.
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Scully Quotes in A Mercy
The A Mercy quotes below are all either spoken by Scully or refer to Scully. 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 8
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Although all her life she had been saved by men— Captain, the sawyers’ sons, Sir and now Will and Scully— she was convinced that this time she had done something, something important, by herself.
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Chapter 10
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Thus her change from “have me always” to “don’t touch me ever” seemed to him as predictable as it was marked.
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They once thought they were a kind of family because together they had carved companionship out of isolation. But the family they imagined they had become was false. Whatever each one loved, sought or escaped, their futures were separate and anyone’s guess.
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