Cimarron
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and nothing but the truth,
so help you God?

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I do.
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You are under oath to tell only the truth.
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You'll therefore answer my questions
to the best of your ability...

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and in your own words.
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At the death of your father
and your dear mother...

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- just how old were you?
- I was 15.

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Left in comfortable circumstances?
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My father had been ill
as long as I could remember...

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and my mother's health had broken
nursing him.

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They left me without anything.
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Now, it isn't my purpose to humiliate you,
Miss Lee, in front of these people...

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but I must ask you to tell them
just what followed.

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Tell the jury.
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Well, I got work in the public library.
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I met a man who said he loved me.
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We were married secretly.
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And then I found out that he already had
a wife and that our marriage was a fake.

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- Did you continue on with this man?
- I never saw him again...

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and after my baby died...
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I left the city.
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Did you make an effort
to secure employment...

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so you could earn your own living?
Work of any kind?

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Yes, I did.
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Tell the court just what happened.
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Well, I managed to get a position
as schoolteacher and then...

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someone found out about me, and l...
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And they blamed you instead of the man,
and you were forced to get out.

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I object! That's leading the witness!
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Objection sustained.
Strike out the question.

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Did you try to secure other employment
in that town?

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They wouldn't listen to me.
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- I had to leave.
- What did you do?

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Well, I got work in another town
as a nurse girl.

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But the same thing again and again,
wherever I went, always the same.

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In other words, refused
even the poorest kind of work...

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to try and keep body and soul together.
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- I object! Irrelevant and immaterial!
- You left out incompetent.

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- Sir!
- Gentlemen, gentlemen!


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