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Shadow of a Doubt: the dinner table scene
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| Uncle Charlie: Women keep busy in towns like this. With cities it's different. Cities are full of women--middle aged, widows, husbands dead. | Uncle Charlie: . . . Husbands who've spent their lives making fortunes, working and working. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Uncle Charlie: . . . And then they die and leave their money to their wives, their silly wives. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| a | And what do the wives do, these useless women? You see them in the hotels, the best hotels, every day by the thousands--drinking the money, eating the money, losing the money at bridge, playing all day and all night. . . . | b | . . . Smelling of money. Proud of their jewelry but of nothing else. Horrible. Faded, fat, greedy women. Young Charlie: But they're alive, they're human beings. |
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| a | Uncle Charlie: Are they, Charlie? Are they human, or are they fat wheezing animals? | b | . . . Hmm? And what happens to animals when they get too fat and too old? Well, I seem to be making my speech right here. Mrs. Newton: Well, for heaven's sake don't talk about women like that in front of my club--you'll be tarred and feathered. . . . |
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