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Still, anything touched

By the sun has kindness.

So, let's get

A little bit tight.

That's better than mooning alone

Behind walls.

So, you won't hear any more

Razzing of love from jimmy.

Instead,

We'll drink to it...

If there is such a thing.

Here's to love.

Oh...

Mother?

Oh, awake?

I don't know what I am.

I remember

One time I had a hangover.

I never want another.

Mm...

What did you do for it?

Ought I to take a drink?

I don't know, dear.

Every man

Knows his own stomach.

Ooh.

I don't want to know mine.

I must get the 12:15

Into town.

See you later.

Mother!

Aren't you going

To say something?

I suppose I should.

Well, I think you should.

You know how I hate

Playing that kind of mother.

I'm ju-

Just not the type.

And there's something so awful

About a mother advising you

When you've had

A crack on the jaw,

To say nothing

Of a hangover with it.

But I want you to.

Well, first of all,

I suppose I should say

You'll get over it.

That is, if you're the kind

Of girl you should be.

What sort of a girl am I?

I don't know exactly, mimi.

You haven't been one thing

Or another.

You haven't wanted

A career of any sort.

And I don't think you're

Socially inclined, like...

Well, like elizabeth.

You just haven't been

Anything.

Just a nothing

But a nothing, hmm?

Oh,

But you have the makings.

Remember,

You're my daughter.

And I don't want

To forget that.

Now...

Don't be sentimental.

You'll throw me off

The stern-parent stuff.

I'm sorry.

Well, let's see.

What are

The roads to recovery?

You get eager

About another man.

You get eager about work.

I don't care

What you're eager about, dear,

But it should be something.

What would you say if I thought

That alan had made a mistake

And that I intended to keep on

Being eager about him?

Do you intend to?

Yes.

I don't believe it.

Why?

Because I think

You're better than that.

That's the mother in you

Speaking.

I'm really not.

Oh, mimi, I wish I knew

What to say exactly.

But this much I do know -

You ought to lay off alan.

Why?

We-

Becau-

Well, I think you ought

To answer that one yourself.

Suppose I didn't feel that way

About it.

Suppose I felt that I had

A right to alan.

What would you say to that?

Well, as long as you were doing

What you thought was right,

I'd be with you, even

Fight for you if necessary.

But I'm afraid I wouldn't have

Much sympathy for the cause.

Mother...

Yes?

That licks me.

Well, you can go now.

And you don't have to worry

About me anymore.

I'll get eager

About something else.

Maybe I'm not such

A rotten novelist after all.

Some of my characters

Are pretty swell people.

Well, I must run along.

Hey, ma.

Yeah?

How'd I ever happen

To get a mother like you?

You're much to young

To know.

Well, here's another one.

I'll take it.

I can't look any longer.

Apartment to let?

Yes, ma'am.

Step right in here.

Can't you bring it down?

Is this an apartment

For both you ladies?

No, just for my daughter.

Uh, we live in bayside,

But she just got a job

On the new york chronicle

In the art department,

And this would be very nice.

It's so close to the office.

The art department?

Yeah.

Well, I think

I have the very thing

That will suit your daughter. Oh, good.

How much is it, please?

I'm asking $20 a week.

That's almost more

Than I make.

But I'll love it.

Come on, feet.

Well, what about it?

Well, you won't be

The only things on my book.

The lottery and two weeks' rent

Are there already.

Jimmy,

What do you think?

He thinks that flynn's

Going to k. o. Nestor.

And that thinking's gonna

Cost him dough, mimi.

Flynn has about as much

Chance as you'd have.

And who do you think's

Going to win, mimi?

I haven't any idea.

Jimmy, what do you

Think's happened?

What do you think -

Well, what's happened?

You got my job?

No.

But you're not the only artist

On this paper now, my boy.

So, I was only going

To draw borders, was I?

Isn't that what you said,

Or does my memory deceive me?

I said you shouldn't expect

To be drawing anything else

For another year or so.

Isn't that what I said?

That's what you said.

And as usual,

You haven't been right yet.

Who are you betting

On at the fight? Flynn.

Then I'm betting on nestor.

All right, all right.

Now, what's happened?

Well,

I've drawn something else.

In fact,

I've already drawn an ad

For the

Hercules furniture company,

Which you see me

Hugging with both arms.

Why, mimi!

Yeah.

"why, mimi," indeed.

Well, well.

They start a new service

To help the advertisers,

And who gets first crack

At making it work?

And who gets a raise

For doing it, I ask you?

Yeah? You got a raise?

How much?

$6.

That is,

If you don't mind.

That's fair enough.

Jimmy, aren't you pleased

With me?

You know

What I've drawn first?

What?

A bed.

Well, that's just something

You get out of.

You want to see it?

Sure.

Well, after all, jimmy...

Remember,

I'm - I'm not jimmy kilmartin.

Well, who is?

Come on.

Let's see it.

What did you say it was?

A bed.

What does it look like?

A horse?

Well, it looks like

A horse could sleep in it.

The advertising manager

Doesn't think so,

And that's much more important

Than any wisecrack you could -

Oh, wait a minute.

Ah.

There it is.

Looks as good

As anything you ever drew.

Then you're a success.

And so you are, mimi.

So you are.

This is

Only the beginning.

Exciting, huh?

Yes, I'm excited.

I admit it.

It means a lot to me.

Means I'm making good.

And that's what

I started out to do.

Well, what do you know?

What?

Oh, nothing.

Just struck me as odd

That here's the paper

Full of news of the world,

Life, and death,

And destiny.

What you're excited about's

A furniture ad.

Well?

Funny being

In the same paper.

"for members of the wedding

Party exclusively. "

Mm.

Will mimi swift be there?

I've often wondered

How I'd feel

The day that would be

In the paper.

And I find, jimmy...

I find that I'm still excited

About my drawing.

Do you get that,

Mr. Kilmartin?

It means I'm all right.

I can go to their party.

Will I be there?

Will I be the same sad girl -

That's what you mean, isn't it?

Oh-ho!

What a disappointment

I'm going to give them.

Why, alan wythe

Means nothing to me now.

I love this bed.

Oh, yes, mr. Kilmartin.

Mimi swift will be there,

And I'm afraid she'll be

A little drunk...

With joy.

Uh-huh.

Flynn is a boxer.

Yeah? And how many boxers

Do y'all see

With a sleep-inducing punch

In both paws?

Why, he's as fast

As a lightweight.

Yeah, with a kick like a

Government mule. In both gloves.

Well, boys, I tell you.

Money still talks better

Than I do,

And it's even money

That says nestor by a knockout.

Good evening.

Good evening.

Mimi!

Mimi swift.

Tommy.

I haven't seen you since the

Night you proposed to marry me.

How'd that end up? Where

Have you been? Never mind.

Help me find elizabeth

And alan. Oh, I see.

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