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Quote #10
"Don't know," he persisted, still smiling, and still looking at Elizabeth, "tell me folks do things up North they wouldn't think about doing down home." "Folks got their dirt to do," said Florence. "They going to do it, no matter where they is. Folks do lots of things down home they don't want nobody to know about." (2.3.229-30)
Gabriel insists on the division between the moral people of the South and the immorality of the North, but Florence shuts him down. She reminds him that there are sinners everywhere, not allowing him to accuse her and everyone else who's come North of losing their way.