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Chapter III: Hymn is the third chapter of The Testaments. It contains section 6 with Aunt Lydia as narrator.

Synopsis[]

Lydia celebrates Easter at the Ardua Hall.

Plot[]

Section 6[]

(Ardua Hall) The manuscript writer identifies herself as Aunt Lydia. She is old now, but is revered all over Gilead. She keeps a trove of private, incriminating documents on others in Gilead. She also recalls that she was once a family law judge.

She keeps the manuscript she is currently writing hidden between the covers of Cardinal John Henry Newman's Apologia Pro Vita Sua (A Defence of One's Life), which is housed in the banned section of the Library restricted to Aunt's as Newman was a Catholic.

Notable Quotes[]

“Quote here”  — Context here[1]

Trivia[]

(e.g. observations, cross-references, 'useless knowledge')

Notes[]

(e.g. contextual implications)

References[]

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