The Great Man's Lady Page #2
- PASSED
- Year:
- 1942
- 90 min
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and leave me alone.
You come back
in a hundred years
and I'll talk to you.
You go along now.
Hmm.
One of the meanest things
about growing old.
You forget how important
everything seems
to young people.
Hey, girl.
Scat. Go on.
I'm all right.
I'll go now.
Nothing of the sort.
Listen, I have something
very special upstairs.
Twenty-year-old stuff.
Now, come on.
We'll have our own drink
to Senator Hoyt.
Over here.
Now you give me a hand.
That's a girl.
I'm as wiry
as the devil,
mind you,
but a climb
gets me down.
That's a girl.
You know, girl,
you need more gumption
and spirit.
Yes, that's what
you need.
Oh!
Where'd you say
you learned about
Ethan Hoyt?
Books.
You'll never learn
a man out of books.
Or a woman either.
Books.
Psst.
Ah, yes, girl.
Men were different
in those days.
Men like Ethan.
A drink in one hand,
and luck in the other.
Open the door, girl.
There was a band
playing in his heart
and the devil
in his eyes.
And I...
I was a very young lady
in a stuffy
Philadelphia house.
In the year 1848.
Well, I must say.
What's the matter?
Making a public spectacle
of yourself.
Mama says...
Oh, don't be stuffy.
Did you see
how he smiled?
A gentleman
would never
have dared.
You mean, like
my Mr. Cadwallader?
Mama says...
Because I dare say
he's never smiled
in his whole life.
But I almost died laughing
when he proposed to me.
"Miss Sempler, I...
"I have the great honor
to address myself
to your favor.
"I am quite willing
to overlook the fact
"that you have grown up
without a mother
"to instruct you
in the duties
of a proper wife.
"But your father and I
are thoroughly agreed
that..."
That's not right
and proper.
What's not?
Making fun of the man
you're betrothed to marry.
Oh, rats!
He's really betrothed
to my father.
Hannah Sempler...
Well, they made
the agreement, not I.
Parents know better.
How do I look?
Who?
Ethan Hoyt, of course.
Hannah Sempler!
Well, he smiled,
didn't he?
He always smiles.
Every time I see him,
he smiles.
That's because
he's a ne'er-do-well.
A what?
It means he lives
with the Indians...
Mama says...
...and smells dreadful
like a buffalo.
Prove it.
He makes his clothes
from dead animals.
Oh, that isn't buffalo.
It's all the same.
Well, then I think buffalos
must smell lovely,
like the fresh air
and the sun.
Where are you going?
Downstairs.
But you can't.
Why not?
He's down there.
That's why I'm going.
Where are you going, honey?
Downstairs.
Don't you go
in the library.
Why not?
There's a big private
confabulation in there.
But, Delilah,
I need a book.
You gonna need two books
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