Legends of the Fall Page #7

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and containing what appears to be

a native bracelet

622

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Meant for me, I presume

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But perhaps not

624

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Do you still care to know

what is happening here?

625

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Cattle prices continue to fall

626

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and winter seems never ending

627

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Why don't you write?

628

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Are you never coming back

and afraid to tell me?

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Alfred continues to do well

630

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His business has expanded to include

financial concerns in Chicago

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and Washington

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I don't pretend to understand

633

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He wants us to send Isabel Two

to boarding school in Chicago

634

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but she adamantly refuses

to leave the ranch

635

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I think she, too,

is waiting for you

636

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I have nowhere

to send this letter

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and no reason to believe

you wish to receive it

638

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I write it only for myself

639

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I will hide it away with all the things

left unsaid and undone

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between us

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December 12, 1919

642

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Dear Susannah:

643

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I have become a hunter

644

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Tell Stab there are creatures here

that cannot even be found in books

645

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I have killed them all

646

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All we had is dead

647

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As I am dead

648

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Marry another

649

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Colonel, it looks like

we've got company

650

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- I have come to ask for your blessing

- My blessing?

651

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You see, these gentlemen and...

652

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And a great many others,

I might add

653

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They're urging me

to run for office

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- What office?

- The United States Congress

655

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That's how highly

we think of your son

656

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And what do you gentlemen

hope to get out of this?

657

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I beg your pardon?

658

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I've spoken plain English, sir

What do you want for yourselves?

659

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Father, I don't think

that these gentlemen...

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Didn't you ask that question

or do you believe these gentlemen

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back you out of patriotic duty

and your inestimable worth?

662

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You forget yourself, Father

I am no longer a child

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Colonel, the Congress...

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Congress is government, sir

I worked for the government once

665

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The issues that we...

666

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Indians! Indians were

the issue in those days

667

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There is nothing so grotesque

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as the meeting of a child

with a bullet

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or an entire village slaughtered

while sleeping

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That was the government's resolution

of that particular issue

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I've seen nothing since then

to persuade me it's gained

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in wisdom, common sense

or humanity

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Gentlemen, my father, for whom

I have the deepest respect

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says that the government

has neither wisdom nor humanity

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I will then consider it

my absolute duty as my father's son

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to bring both wisdom and humanity

to the United States Congress

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I thank you for your blessing

Gentlemen

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- Gentlemen, wait for me in the cars

- Yes Certainly

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Are you all right?

What's wrong?

680

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I don't know what to say

Tristan's always been wild

681

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- You love him for that

- Do I?

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I suppose I do

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He does love you

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She's to be your brother's wife

685

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Yes, though you better

remind him of that fact

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He's not here

to defend himself

687

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No, but I see you are here

to defend him and what is his

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even though

he's abandoned her and you

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I won't even speak

of who else he abandoned

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Damn you, boy

691

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Don't you blame my son

for Samuel's death!

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Samuel chose to be a soldier,

and soldiers die

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sent to their slaughter

by men in government

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Parasites like you!

695

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Damn and blast you!

696

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Damn you

And damn you too!

697

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Shut your mouth

Leave her out of this!

698

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Get out of my house

and get off my land

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Why? Because I want

to serve my country as you did?

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Or because, like you,

I love a woman who doesn't love me?

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He used her and deserted her,

your darling Tristan

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Alfred, don't Please

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I loved her!

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I love her still

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He stole her from me

If you want to know the truth

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he stole her from Samuel

before the war

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God help me, I'll kill you

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Here

Read your darling Tristan's letter

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You deserve to be happy

710

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Late that night we found

the Colonel on the floor

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beside a cold fire

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He could not move

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His hair turned white overnight

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and he became an old man

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