The Little Foxes

Regina Giddens: [about a possible marriage between Alexandra and Leo] There are a lot of things to consider. After all, they are first cousins. Oscar Hubbard: Well, that isn't unusual, our grandfather and grandmother were first cousins! Regina Giddens: Yes, and look at us. [laughs]

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Addie: Yes, they got mighty well-off cheating the poor. Well, there's people that eats up the whole Earth and all the people on it. Like in the Bible with the locusts. Then there's people that stand around and watch them do it. Sometimes I think it ain't right to stand and watch them do it. Horace Giddens: There's something else in the Bible, Addie. Take us the foxes... the little foxes that spoil the vines... for our vines have tender grapes.

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David Hewitt: Do you like me? Alexandra Giddens: Not today. David Hewitt: Why, I'll come back tomorrow.

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Regina Giddens: [about marrying Horace] It didn't take me long to find out my mistake. Then it was just as if I couldn't stand the sight of you. I couldn't bear to have you touch me. I thought you were such a soft weak fool, you were so understanding when I didn't want you near me. The lies and excuses I used to make to you, and you believed them. That was when I began to despise you. Horace Giddens: [starts looking agitated] Why didn't you leave me? Regina Giddens: Where was I to go? What money did I have? I didn't think about it much, if I had, I'd have known you'd die before I did. But I couldn't have guessed you'd get heart trouble so early and so bad. I'm lucky Horace. I've always been lucky. I'll be lucky again. Horace Giddens: The other bottle. Please, upstairs in my room, in the drawer.

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Leo Hubbard: [Arriving for work at the bank] Good morning, Mr. Manders... Well, what can I do for you today? Sam Manders: You can do one thing, Leo. Leo Hubbard: Yes, sir? What's that? Sam Manders: You can try keeping awake... ALL day.

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Regina Giddens: Alexandra, I've come to the end of my rope. Somewhere there's got to be what I want, too. Life goes too fast. You can go where you want, do what you want, think what you want. I'd like to keep you with me but I won't make you stay. No, I won't make you stay. Alexandra Giddens: [thoughtful] You couldn't, Mama. Because I don't want to stay with you. Because I'm beginning to understand about things. Addie said there were people who ate the earth and those that stood around and watched them do it. And just then Uncle Ben said the same thing. Really the same thing. Tell him from me, Mama, I'm not going to watch you do it.

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