Miss Cholmondeley is Edward’s lover in India. He mentions her in passing in his letters to an unsuspecting, naïve Maria, but it’s not until Edward incorrectly calls Maria’s eyes blue—the color of Miss Cholmondeley’s eyes—in one of his letters that Maria finds out about the romance and breaks of the engagement.
Miss Cholmondeley Quotes in An Experiment with an Air Pump
The An Experiment with an Air Pump quotes below are all either spoken by Miss Cholmondeley or refer to Miss Cholmondeley. 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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Act 2, Scene 1
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Maria: Papa, Edward thinks my eyes are blue, he said so in a letter, and Harriet says this is because he’s a complete fool and that she never liked him anyway, but I think, perhaps he has a tropical fever and his mind is wandering or perhaps he meant brown but wrote blue –
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Miss Cholmondeley Quotes in An Experiment with an Air Pump
The An Experiment with an Air Pump quotes below are all either spoken by Miss Cholmondeley or refer to Miss Cholmondeley. 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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Act 2, Scene 1
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Maria: Papa, Edward thinks my eyes are blue, he said so in a letter, and Harriet says this is because he’s a complete fool and that she never liked him anyway, but I think, perhaps he has a tropical fever and his mind is wandering or perhaps he meant brown but wrote blue –
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