"When Miss Emily opened the package at home there was written on the box, under the skill and bones: 'For rats'."

"We remember all the young men her father had driven away, and we knew that with nothing left, she would have to cling to that which had robbed her, as people will."

"So when Miss Emily got to be thirty and was still single, we were not pleased exactly, but vindicated; even with insanity in the family she wouldn't have turned down all of her chances if they had really materialized."

"When the town got free postal delivery, Miss Emily alone refused to let them fasten the metal numbers above her door and attach a mailbox to it?