Judge Priest Page #3

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What's ailing you now?

Dadgum goat come in here

and eat up my mint bed there.

I'll bet he must have

been the ruination of a million juleps.

You and your precious mint juleps-

a circuit court judge.

Where is your dignity?

Dignity?

I don't reckon the Priest family...

...will ever have to worry about dignity

as long as you're alive and kickin'.

Well, it's a good thing somebody

in this family has pride.

I always told my brother

when he married you...

...that he saved the family name.

Well, if he were living, he wouldn't be

fooling around the front yard with a goat.

That's not what I came for.

Have you seen Rome?

Oh, Rome?

Rome?

Oh, appears like I did see that, uh,

son of yours around here a while ago.

I expect he's downtown though now,

uh, you know...

...struttin' around,

showin' off his button shoes.

Now don't you play possum with me.

As if I didn't know

you've been encouraging that-...

...that girl over there

to set her cap for Rome.

Carrie, Carrie...

...if I didn't know that

you had the biggest heart...

...of any woman in the world...

I'd think you was the most

suspicious creature...

...that ever come down the pike.

Never mind that.

You come up on the porch.

I want to talk to you.

If I'd have known that's the way you felt...

...about it, I wouldn't

have hurried home so fast.

I'm sorry, Rome.

After all, you have your career...

...and your family and

everything in the world...

...that matters to you right here.

I don't think you care what matters to me.

- That's not fair, Rome.

After all, I'm- I'm only telling you

for your own good.

William, I'm not a woman

to beat about the bush.

This business of Rome

and that girl next door has got to stop.

What do you got against Ellie May?

She's an awful sweet girl,

it seems to me.

She's got gumption,

and she teaches school

and supports herself.

I don't want to be unkind.

She may be a very nice girl and all that...

...but, after all, Rome is

one of the Kentucky Priests.

And the name of Priest

means something in Kentucky.

Well, uh, I've never heard

that it meant intolerance.

It means good stock and family pride.

You know the kind of stock

she comes from.

Yep. Her, uh-

Her ma come to this town penniless

and died givin' birth to Ellie May.

I remember the night.

She was a frail little woman-...

...uh, wasn't any bigger than

Ellie May is now-and just as pretty.

But who was her father?

Well, uh, nobody don't,

uh, rightfully know.

Well, family may not

mean anything to you...

...but it means a whole lot to me.

I'm not going to have my grandchildren

come into the world under a cloud.

You, uh, haven't, by any chance, picked

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