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Lizzie Andrew Borden
American
Celebrity
About the author
Maggie went out of doors to wash the windows and father came out into the kitchen and said he did not know whether he would go down to the post office or not. And then I sprinkled some handkerchiefs to iron.
Lizzie Andrew Borden,
American
Celebrity
#Kitchen
#Post
#Father
#Office
#Windows
I thought I would go out, and see if the air would make me feel any better.
Lizzie Andrew Borden,
American
Celebrity
#Thought
I don't know what I have said. I have answered so many questions and I am so confused I don't know one thing from another. I am telling you just as nearly as I know.
Lizzie Andrew Borden,
American
Celebrity
#Questions
When I first came down stairs, for two or three minutes I went down cellar to the water closet.
Lizzie Andrew Borden,
American
Celebrity
#First
#Water
#Stairs
She told me she had a note, somebody was sick.
Lizzie Andrew Borden,
American
Celebrity
She said she was going out, and would get the dinner. That is the last I saw her, or said anything to her.
Lizzie Andrew Borden,
American
Celebrity
My door was open part of the time, and part of the time I tried to get a nap and their voices annoyed me, and I closed it. I kept it open in summer more or less, and closed in winter.
Lizzie Andrew Borden,
American
Celebrity
#Time
#Open
#Summer
#Winter
Last winter when I was coming home from church one Thursday evening, I saw somebody run around the house again. I told my father of that.
Lizzie Andrew Borden,
American
Celebrity
#Home
#Father
#Church
#Winter
#Evening
I was on the stairs coming down when she let him in.
Lizzie Andrew Borden,
American
Celebrity
#Stairs
I was not up stairs when he came home; no, sir.
Lizzie Andrew Borden,
American
Celebrity
#Home
#Stairs
I think he came to the front door and rang the bell, and Maggie let him in, and he said he had forgotten his key; so I think she must have been down stairs.
Lizzie Andrew Borden,
American
Celebrity
#Key
#Stairs
Oh, Mrs. Churchill, do come over, someone has killed father.
Lizzie Andrew Borden,
American
Celebrity
#Father
I never eat any breakfast.
Lizzie Andrew Borden,
American
Celebrity
I know what she used to do sometimes. She kept her best cape she wore on the street in there, and she used occasionally to go up there to get it and to take it into her room. She kept a great deal in the guest room drawers.
Lizzie Andrew Borden,
American
Celebrity
#Guest
I knew there was an old axe down cellar; that is all I knew.
Lizzie Andrew Borden,
American
Celebrity
#Old
Go for Dr. Bowen as soon as you can. I think father is hurt.
Lizzie Andrew Borden,
American
Celebrity
#Hurt
#Father
I always went to my sister, because she was older and had the care of me after my mother died.
Lizzie Andrew Borden,
American
Celebrity
#Mother
#Care
#Sister
I can't do anything in a minute.
Lizzie Andrew Borden,
American
Celebrity
I did not hear her go or come back, but I supposed she went.
Lizzie Andrew Borden,
American
Celebrity
I did not see his face, because he was all covered with blood.
Lizzie Andrew Borden,
American
Celebrity
#Blood
I don't know whether Mrs. Borden is out or in; I wish you would see if she is in her room.
Lizzie Andrew Borden,
American
Celebrity
I was feeling well enough to eat the pears.
Lizzie Andrew Borden,
American
Celebrity
#Feeling
I have been away a great deal in the daytime, occasionally at night.
Lizzie Andrew Borden,
American
Celebrity
#Night
I said I thought first I was on the stairs; then I remembered I was in the kitchen when he came in.
Lizzie Andrew Borden,
American
Celebrity
#Thought
#First
#Kitchen
#Stairs
I had no occasion for an apron on that morning.
Lizzie Andrew Borden,
American
Celebrity