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A woman the narrator’s brother meets while fleeing London. When the narrator’s brother first encounters her, Mrs. Elphinstone and her sister-in-law, Miss Elphinstone, are being attacked and robbed by three men. The narrator’s brother helps fend off these criminals before joining the two women. They explain to him that Mrs. Elphinstone’s husband awoke them in the middle of the night and told them to flee the area, saying he’d catch up with them later. For this reason, Mrs. Elphinstone can hardly take her mind off finding her husband, thus making it difficult for the narrator’s brother to convince her to travel onward and to eventually escape the country altogether. Nonetheless, she consents to his plan and agrees to pool her money with his to buy tickets on a boat to take them away from England.
Mrs. Elphinstone Quotes in The War of the Worlds
The The War of the Worlds quotes below are all either spoken by Mrs. Elphinstone or refer to Mrs. Elphinstone. 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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Book 1, Chapter 17
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At the sight of the sea, Mrs Elphinstone, in spite of the assurances of her sister-in-law, gave way to panic. She had never been out of England before, she would rather die than trust herself friendless in a foreign country, and so forth. She seemed, poor woman, to imagine that the French and the Martians might prove very similar. She had been growing increasingly hysterical, fearful, and depressed during the two days’ journeyings. Her great idea was to return to Stanmore. Things had been always well and safe at Stanmore. They would find [her husband] at Stanmore.
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Mrs. Elphinstone Quotes in The War of the Worlds
The The War of the Worlds quotes below are all either spoken by Mrs. Elphinstone or refer to Mrs. Elphinstone. 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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Book 1, Chapter 17
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At the sight of the sea, Mrs Elphinstone, in spite of the assurances of her sister-in-law, gave way to panic. She had never been out of England before, she would rather die than trust herself friendless in a foreign country, and so forth. She seemed, poor woman, to imagine that the French and the Martians might prove very similar. She had been growing increasingly hysterical, fearful, and depressed during the two days’ journeyings. Her great idea was to return to Stanmore. Things had been always well and safe at Stanmore. They would find [her husband] at Stanmore.
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