To Kill A Mockingbird - Section 2

"No amount of sighing could induce Atticus to let us spend Christmas Day at home."

"...he enjoyed everything i dissaproved of, and disliked my ingenuous diversions."

"...Aunt Alexandra would have been analogous to Mount Everest."

"...not unless ther's extreme provocation connected with 'em."

"I merely bowed to the inevitable."

"The internal arrangments of the Finche's were indicative of Simon's quilelessness and the absalute trust with which he regarded his offspring."

"Jem felt his age and gravitated to the adults..."

"I was debating whether to stand there or run, and tarried in indescision a moment too long:..."

"Such conduct as yours required little understanding. It was obstreperous, disorderly and abusive..."

"When he gave us our air-rifles Atticus wouldn't teach us to shoot. Uncle Jack instructed us in the rudiments thereof;..."

"with movements so swift they seemed simultaneous, ..."

"Jem became vaguely articulate: ' 'd you see him Scou? ..."

"... when I was well into the second grade of school and tormenting Boo Radley became passe, ..."

"...we were followed up the sidewalk by a philippic on our family's moral degeneration, ..."

"What Jen did was something I'd do as a matter of course had I not been under Atticus' interdist, which I assumed included not fighting horrible old ladies."

"She was a less than satisfactory source of palliation, but she did give Jem a hot biscuit-and-butter..."

I was expecting a tirade, but all she said was, "You may commence reading, Jeremy."

Still everything he read he passed along to me, but with this difference: formerly because he though I'd like it; now for my edification and insrtuction.