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Love Beyond Wealth in The Quiet Man
Mary Kate
Hurry. Now is a good time to ask him. What! Go on, go on.
[abut Will]
Sean
Ask him what?
Mary Kate
About my money. He can't say that he hasn't got it with him now.
Sean
Can't you get it through your head that I didn't marry you for your fortune? I don't give a hang about the money.
Mary Kate
But he does. And that's the whole point of it. Now will you go and ask him?!
Sean
No, why shame ourselves?
Mary Kate
Shame? The shame's on you, not on me. Oh, on me too if I've married a coward.
Sean
Is that what you think of me?
Mary Kate
Well, what else if you let him rob you out of my money?
Sean
Money! I'm sick of the talk of it. Is that all you Danahers think about - money?
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On Courting and Expectations in Marriage
Michaleen Oge Flynn
Is this a courting or a ]? Have the good manners not to hit the man until he's your husband and entitled to hit you back.
[[wikt:donnybrook|donnybrook]
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Growing Affection Between Friends
Will
You know, Yank, I've taken quite a likins to yas.
Sean
I'm getting real fond of you too.
Will
Yer widow, me sister, she coulda done a lot worse.
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A Bold Encounter Between Mary Kate and Sean
Mary Kate
It's a bold one you are. And who gave you leave to be kissin me?
Sean
So you can talk!
Mary Kate
Yes I can. I will, and I do. And it's more than talk you'll be gettin if you step a step closer to me.
Sean
Don't worry. You've got a wallop!
Mary Kate
You'll get over it, I'm thinkin'.
Sean
Well, some things a man doesn't get over so easy.
Mary Kate
Like what supposin'?
Sean
Like the sight of a girl comin through the fields with the sun on her hair. Kneeling in church with a face like a saint.
Mary Kate
Saint indeed!
Sean
And now comin to a man's house to clean it for him.
Mary Kate
But that was just my way of bein a good Christian act.
Sean
I know it was, Mary Kate Danaher. And it was nice of you.
Mary Kate
Not at all.
[she moves to leave, but then turns back and kisses him]
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Remembering Sean's Family History
Father Peter Lonergan
Ah, yes. I knew your people, Sean. Your grandfather, he died in Australia, in a penal colony. And your father, he was a good man too.
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A Yankee's Unexpected Interest in Buying
Sean
Do you think she'd sell it?
[about a cottage]
Michaeleen
I doubt it.
Sean
Don't bet on it, cause I'm buyin it.
Michaeleen
Now why would a, why would a Yankee from Pittsburgh want to buy it?
Sean
I'll tell you why Michaeleen Oge Flynn, young small Michael Flynn who used to wipe my runny nose when I was a kid. Because I'm Sean Thornton and I was born in that little cottage over there. And I've come home, and home I'm gonna stay. Now does that answer your questions once and for all, you nosy little man?
Michaeleen
Seanin Thornton! And look at you now...What do they feed you, all you men who are in Pittsburgh?
Sean
Steel, Michaleen. Steel and ] furnaces so hot a man forgets his fear of hell. When you're hard enough, tough enough, other things, other things Michaeleen.
[[w:Pig iron|pig iron]
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Confrontation Over a Woman's Choice
Will
Get out! Why if he was the last man on the face of this earth, and my sister the last woman, I'd still say no. Hey Yank! I'll count three. And if you're not out of the house by then, I'll loose the dogs on ya.
[in response to Sean's request for Mary Kate's hand in marriage]
Sean
If you say three, mister, you'll never hear the man count ten.
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Land Rights and Regrets in The Quiet Man
Mary Kate
Good for Widow Tillane...After all, he's got more right to that land than you have.
[after the widow sells her cottage to Sean instead of Will; Sean Thornton]
Will
He'll regret it till his dying day, if he lives that long.
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Marriage Expectations in The Quiet Man
Mary Kate
I thank you anyway, Sean Thornton, for the asking.
Sean
You don't think this changes anything? It's what you say that counts, not him.
Michaeleen
Now Sean, you've gone too far. That's enough.
Sean
Say, what is this? We're gonna get married. Aren't we? I don't get it.
[She turns away, dejected, and runs upstairs to her room]
Michaeleen
This is Ireland, Sean, not America. Without a brother's consent, she couldn't and wouldn't. I'm sorry for both of ya.
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A Spring Day in Castletown
Father Peter Lonergan
Now, I'll begin at the beginnin'. A fine soft day in the spring it was when the train pulled into Castletown three hours late as usual, and himself got off. He didn't have the look of an American tourist at all about him. Not a camera on him. And what was worse, not even a fishing rod.
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Confronting Fear and Conflict Over Money
Sean
Maybe it's just one of those things in the scrapbook, but now when you carry it around in here...I didn't go in there to outbox him. I went in there to beat his brains out. To drive him into the canvas, to murder him. That's what I did. For what? The purse, a piece of the gate. Lousy money.
Reverend Playfair
And now money is behind your trouble with Danaher.
Sean
They think I'm afraid to fight him, all the friends I've made here, even my wife.
Reverend Playfair
But aren't you in a way?
Sean
Did you ever kill a man? Well I have, and all this talk about her big fortune. It's not that important.
Reverend Playfair
Perhaps it is to her. It must be strange to you from America, but it's an old, old custom here, and believe me, it's a good custom. The fortune means more to her than just the money.
Sean
To me it isn't, and worth fightin for.
Reverend Playfair
Is your wife's love worth fightin for?
Sean
I don't know. About all I know is I can't fight or won't fight unless I'm mad enough to kill, and if that means losin her, I don't know. Maybe she doesn't love me enough.
Reverend Playfair
It's a difficult situation. But I think you'll find the answer in God's good time.
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A Distraction Amidst Town Conflict
Father Paul
Father Lonergan!
Father Lonergan
Shhh...
Father Paul
It's, it's a big fight in the town!
Father Lonergan
And there's a big fight in this fish right here.
Father Paul
I'd have put a stop to it, but you see...
Father Lonergan
You do that, lad. It's your duty.
Father Paul
But see now, it's Danahar and Sean Thornton!
Father Lonergan
Who?
Father Paul
Danahar and Sean Thornton!
Father Lonergan
Well why the devil didn't you tell me?
[Quickly drops fishing rod and runs]
Father Paul
Father, shouldn't we put a stop to it now?
Father Lonergan
Ah, we should lad, yes we should, it's our duty. Yes, it's our duty...
[Smiling, making fighting movements; Smiles as a punch is heard]
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Disagreement Over Money and Possessions
Sean
Well, let him keep it.
Mary Kate
Keep my fortune?
Sean
Sure, you've got your tables and chairs about ya. What do we care about his money?
Mary Kate
My money!
Sean
Well, let him have it if it means that much to him....
Mary Kate
What manner of man is it that I have married?
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Complicated Relationships and Missed Opportunities
Will
What sort of a scoundrel is this Yank? One minute, he's at me sister, and the next it's herself.
Michaeleen
Well, blame no one but yourself. If you had saved me as your matchmaker, you and the widow would have been married long since.
Father Lonergan
True, Will, true.
Michaeleen
Mind you, I'm not saying it's too late yet.
Will
What do you mean?
Michaeleen
Why do you suppose the Widow Tillane has stood you off so long, huh? You're a fine looking man.
Will
I am.
Michaeleen
A rich propertied man!
Will
And well she knows it.
Michaeleen
What woman would come into the house with another woman in it? If you got rid of Mary Kate, the widow would have been in like a shot.
Will
No!
Michaeleen
Yes. You had your chance and you flubbed it. You refused Seanin Thornton and he reneged on ya. Now I doubt if he'd take your sister if you put a thousand pounds on her.
Will
Father Lonergan?
Father Lonergan
I can´t say it´s true, and I won´t say it´s not. But there's been talk.
Michaeleen
Oh, a lot of talk.
Will
A lot of talk, eh?
Michaeleen
Two women in the house and one of them a redhead.
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Anticipating Romance in Innisfree
Sean
If anybody had told me six months ago that today I'd be in a graveyard in Innisfree with a girl like you that I'm just about to kiss, I'd have told em...
Mary Kate
Oh, but the kisses are a long way off yet.
Sean
Huh?
Mary Kate
Well, we just started a-courtin', and next month, we, we start the walkin'-out, and the month after that there'll be the threshin parties, and the month after that...
Sean
Nope.
Mary Kate
Well, maybe we won't have to wait that month.
Sean
Yep.
Mary Kate
Or for the threshin parties.
Sean
Nope.
Mary Kate
Or for the walkin'-out together.
Sean
No.
Mary Kate
And so much the worse for you, Sean Thornton. For I feel the same way about it myself.
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A Mirage of Thirst and Perception
Sean
Hey, is that real? She couldn't be.
[after first seeing Mary Kate, tending sheep in a meadow]
Michaeleen
Oh nonsense, man. It's only a mirage brought on by your terrible thirst.
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A Warning About Temper and Reputation
Mary Kate
I have a fearful temper. You might as well know about it now instead of finding out about it later. We Danahers are a fighting people.
Sean
I can think of a lot of things I'd rather do to one of the Danahers - Miss Danaher.
Mary Kate
Shhh, Mr. Thornton. What will Mr. Flynn be thinking?
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Conflict Over Property and Relationships
Sean
The point is, it's already done. I own the property now, and as long as we're gonna be neighbors...
Will
Neighbors? Oh, neighbors. NEVER! And if I so much as catch you putting your wet foot on my property...and oh, another thing, you keep away from my sister Mary Kate. She's not for the likes of you.
Sean
Where I come from, we don't talk about our women folk in saloons. You sort of make a habit of it.
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Dreams of Home and Belonging
Mary Kate
Ever since I was a little girl, I dreamed of having my own things about me. My spinnet over there, and a table here, and my own chairs to rest upon. And a dresser over there in that corner, and my own china and pewter shinin about me. And now...
Sean
I didn't know you felt that way about it. Seems like a lot of fuss and grief over a little furniture and stuff.
[They go outside]
Mary Kate
It is a pretty cottage, isn't it?
Sean
Yeah, I think so.
[He moves to embrace her]
Mary Kate
Don't touch me! You have no right!
[She pulls away]
Sean
Whaddya mean, no right?
Mary Kate
I'll wear your ring, I'll cook, and I'll wash, and I'll keep the land. But that is all. Until I've got my dowry safe about me, I'm no married woman. I'm the servant I've always been, without anything of my own!
Sean
That's ridiculous. You're my wife and... What is this?
[She shuts the bottom half of the cottage's front door on him]
Mary Kate
Haven't I been tryin to tell ya? - ...that until you have my dowry, you haven't got any bit of me - me, myself. I'll still be dreamin amongst the things that are my own as if I had never met you. There's three hundred years of happy dreamin in those things of mine and I want them. I want my dream. I'll have it and I know it. I'll say no other word to you.
Sean
All right. You'll have your dowry or dot or fortune or whatever you call it.
Mary Kate
Well, get it then.
Sean
There'll be no locks or bolts between us Mary Kate except those in your own mercenary little heart.
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