Tasty Mystery Baskets of Clips

You mustn't wait on me.

- All right. - I tried to gloss things over a little...

Yeah? What happened?

Just as phony as it... Oh, hello, Stanley.

There you are. I didn't hear you name it!

Just a plain tailored outfit.

You saw him first in uniform, an officer, not here.

We got here in the state of Louisiana what's known as the Napoleonic Code.

The guests are gathering for the poker party.

You gonna shack up here?

until I get in. What do you say?

You know why Mitch didn't come, but you won't tell.

I have the misfortune of being an English instructor.

A 17-year-old kid she got mixed up with.

Well, what do you know?

She knew she was dying when she give me this. A very strange girl, very sweet.

that he met at a hotel called the Flamingo.

I wish you'd stop taking it for granted I'm in something I wanna get out of.

at the Four Deuces. That's much more practical.

You got plenty of room to get by me now.

- Looks like she's staying a while. - Yeah.

- No, I better leave it on. - No. I want you to be comfortable.

Bearing the raw meat home from the kill in the jungle. And you...

Well, I can't do no more with them.

This one here with this paper thing on it.

do you want him?

I have an acquaintance who works in a jewelry store and he's coming...

Now, the Flamingo is used to all kinds of goings on.

But you were the one that abandoned Tunnel B, not I.

Yes, tell one, Blanche. You used to know a lot of good stories.

He's not gonna marry her now.

- I'm not sure I did. - Well, that's where she's at, honey.

Is it the gentleman I was expecting from Dallas?

Blanche, honey, this is Mr. Gonzalez and Mr. Hubbell.

Screaming! Screaming!

And after two, three days they quit, then she goes on to another one.

And on the way back, they would stagger onto my lawn and call:

- Stella? - Yes, Eunice?

My youth was gone up the waterspout.

Telegram? What telegram?

Your sister hasn't turned into a drunkard. She's just all shaken up...

How could you possibly wonder?

- Heh. As a matter of fact, my wire... - As a matter of fact...

You talk so seldom, when you do say anything...

How's your mother?

Yes, a big spider. That's where I brought my victims.

I haven't put on one ounce in 10 years, Stella.

but a little piece of eternity dropped in our hands...

Who'd you say it was from?

but all the rest of it.

I have all those things... Aren't taken away, but grow, increase with the years.

Some of your sister's friends have stayed in the city.

Now, since when are you giving me orders?

I want to rest.

I put him in his place. Now he makes up stories about me.

Put it over the light bulb. Will you, please?

Not with my nerves tonight. Scotch for me, please.

I guess that's what's meant by being in love.

Close the curtains before I come out.

HEY MADIEEEEEEE

It was the other little familiarity that I felt obliged to discourage.

It's a French name.

because this other party is somebody...

and then transfer to one called Cemeteries...

He smashed all the light bulbs with the heel of my slipper.

When I thought my luck was beginning to fail me.

This is Western Union.

Look at these fine feathers and furs that she comes to preen herself in here?

He came to me for help.

Look, she ain't coming down and she ain't gonna talk to you neither...

Is it because I've been stood up by my beau?

Why don't someone go to the Chinaman's and bring back a load of chop suey?

Are you gonna stay here and insult her?

He hates me, or why would he insult me?

I bought some nice clothes to meet all your lovely friends in.

The blind are leading the blind.

- Did Eunice get the police? - No, she's getting a drink...

You can remember it by that...

- Is your mother well? - Why?

I thanked God for you.

I'm not properly dressed.

Does that mean...

Don't you get along with him?

A little bit on the primitive side, I should think.

I hope they haul you in, turn a fire hose on you like the last time!

- But the burden fell on my shoulders. - Best I could do was make my own living.

- Oh, Blanche. - Yes, it is. Or I wouldn't say it. You...

It was because... on the dance floor...

- Ha, ha, ha. - Well, of course, I could be wrong.

Oh, no, my gracious. What a thing.

I want you to look at my figure, you know?

I won't stay long, I won't. I promise.

- Oh, he's on the road a good deal. - Oh, he travels?

How long's this game going to continue?

I told you at breakfast. I phoned you at lunch.

Please... It won't be necessary.

What's the matter, honey? You lost?

Deliberate cruelty is not forgivable!

On Saturday nights, they would go in town to get drunk.

Oh, she's about the same, thanks.

But people like you abused her and forced her to change.

Capricorn, the goat!

- Three bullets, mustache. - Straight! I gotcha!

How do you think all that sickness and dying was paid for?

These fingernails have to be trimmed. Jacket, doctor?

You showed me a snapshot of a place with columns...

Mitch is a buddy of mine. We was together in the 241 st Engineers.

Blanche. You know, it's hot in there with the steam from that bathroom!

I was played out. You know what played out is?

What do you want me to do?

She won't live long...

Oh, that's good.

I got a sick mother and she don't go to sleep...

I hadn't seen him for a while, then just now this wire...

I guess I... Young man.

You seemed gentle.

- He's coming to make an appraisal. - Don't be such an idiot, Stanley.

Well, thanks. Now the button.

Never arithmetic, sir. Never arithmetic.

- Chocolate? - No, ma'am. Cherry.

- What, she got this out of teacher's pay? - Oh, hush.

I was joking. Feebly.

On the other hand, men lose interest quickly, especially when a girl is over...

Rain from heaven.

- My mother is sick, and... - Oh, I'm sorry to hear it. Badly?

I didn't know that stars took up collections.

I tore into my trunk to see what I had that was suitable for the tropics.

Their literary heritage is not what they treasure above all else.