"When her father died, it got about that the house was all that was left to her; and in a way, people were glad."

" remitted her taxes, the dispensation dating from the death of her father on into perpetuity."

"At first we were glad that Miss Emily would have an interest, because the ladies all said, “Of course a Grierson would not think seriously of a Northerner, a day laborer.”"

“Arsenic,” Miss Emily said. “Is that a good one?”

"just as she had vanquished their fathers thirty years before about the smell. "

" no visitor had passed since she ceased giving china-painting lessons eight or ten years earlier. "

"She just stood in the door and listened quietly until the spokesman came to a stumbling halt. Then they could hear the invisible watch ticking at the end of the gold chain.

"They held the funeral on the second day, with the town coming to look at Miss Emily beneath a mass of bought flowers..."

"What was left of him, rotted beneath what was left of the nightshirt, had become inextricable from the bed in which he lay; and upon him and upon the pillow beside him lay that even coating of the patient and biding dust."