:14:03
- Patience Parsons promised to letter...
- Parsons what?
:14:05
- Promised to letter some posters for me.
- She can do it tomorrow.
:14:09
I just sent $700 out of this house...
:14:11
and I'm not about to drink coffee by myself.
:14:14
- You coming?
- Yes, I'm coming. One cup.
:14:18
You of all people
telling me to accept that offer.
:14:21
Me of all people. It's the sworn duty
of counsel to advise his client, isn't it?
:14:26
I advised you to take the money because
the E&P is a very tough outfit to lick...
:14:30
but that doesn't categorically make me
a spy for Harry Foster Malone.
:14:33
George, I understand that.
:14:35
I just don't understand
why you don't understand.
:14:39
It's the principle involved.
I'm right, they are wrong.
:14:42
I only want what is due me. That's all.
:14:44
Janey, let me tell you something.
The distance between the right...
:14:47
Distance between the right and the practical
is a continuing shame to the human race.
:14:52
- Are you listening?
- Yes, I am.
:14:54
The E&P is an outfit involving
millions of dollars and thousands of people.
:14:58
You are an enterprise involving four people.
:15:01
- Four?
- Betty and Billy and you...
:15:05
Four people and no dollars. You've just
got to learn to face the facts of life.
:15:09
I suppose you do?
:15:12
You're as blind to the facts of life
as you say I am.
:15:16
For one thing, you're campaigning
for first selectman again, aren't you?
:15:19
- Well, of course.
- And you know and I know that Cape Anne...
:15:23
automatically elects Aaron Caldwell
every year.
:15:25
He's been first selectman
as long as I can remember...
:15:28
and he will probably always be
first selectman, but you keep trying.
:15:31
- Now why do you do this, George?
- Why do I...
:15:34
Because Aaron Caldwell is still living
in the 18th century.
:15:38
He thinks a town must show a profit
at the end of the year...
:15:41
as if it were a business or something.
:15:42
Primarily, because the people of this town
are not getting...
:15:45
the kind of government that they deserve.
:15:47
Our schools are on half-day sessions.
That's a terrible thing.
:15:50
That skinflint won't even spend $1
to get a fire engine for this town...
:15:54
or what about a snowplough?
:15:55
I know his answer to that one.
"The month of May...
:15:57
"is cheapest snowplough on the market."
Unless the people of this town...