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My journey to maturity

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began in New York in 1928.

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I was married to Charles Rawlings,

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a newspaper man and yachting enthusiast.

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I had been trying to write stories

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that I thought would be
most likely to sell.

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Gothic romances were extremely popular,

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and I had written dozens.

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I was desperate to express myself.

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Even as a child, I had been consumed

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with a desire to be a writer.

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Car, please, Norris.

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Marjorie.

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Max rejected my short story.

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Max Perkins isn't the only editor

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in the world.

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I know.

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I thought your story was damn good.

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Except for the pretentious parts.

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Let's take a ride upstate tomorrow.

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We'll make a day of it?

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It looks like I'm gonna have
a hangover tomorrow.

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I have arrangements to make, Charles.

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What kind of arrangements?

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I don't think we should discuss it here.

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Why not?

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Well, public scenes embarrass you.

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You bought that damn orange grove.

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What in hell possessed you
to buy a place sight unseen?

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I wasn't consulted.

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You didn't for one minute
think about me.

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Oh, that's not true.

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All you cared about
was you and your desire

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to write the great American novel.

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Do you seriously expect me to move

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to some hick town and grow oranges?

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Is this your vision of an artist?

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I... I'm not a kid.

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I can't just pick up and leave.

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Why not?

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Fine.

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Take your typewriter
and go to Cross Creek.

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Just don't expect me
to share in your simple life.

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Charles...

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You're my husband.

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And I love you, Marjorie.

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Couldn't you come with me?

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No.

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After 30 years of urban life,

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I was totally unprepared
for this small Florida town.

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Excuse me,

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uh, is there a taxi available?

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You want the hotel.

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Oh, thank you.

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You want Norton Baskin.

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Just ask for Norton, he'll help you out.

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Thank you.

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Mr. Baskin?

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Mm-hmm.

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I... I'm looking for a taxicab.

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I'm going to Cross Creek
and I need a ride there.

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If you just could tell me

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where I might find a taxi.

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There's not much business here.

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If you can wait a minute,

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I'll run you down.

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No.

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It's too bad about your car.

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You ain't gonna get her running again.

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No, sir.

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You gonna have to get yourself

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another one.

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Something in a clean blue might be nice.

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I don't need a car.

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Well, if you're partial to dirty blue.

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No, I don't have any use for a car.

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- Oh, I see.
- I like walking.

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Ha. That's nice.

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I intend to walk a lot.

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Those your hiking shoes?

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Heh.

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You ain't gonna get too far in them.

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I'll manage.

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Up there is Simmons' turpentine still.

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And over that way is orange lake.

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It's good fishing.

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If you don't mind the gators.

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So you say you're a writer?

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What do you write?

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I'm working on a novel.

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Mm. Mm-hmm.

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Hold on, now.

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You all right?

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I'm just fine.

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Hmm.

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So you write love stories?

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I'm writing a Gothic.

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You do say.

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I don't believe I know what that is.

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It's a type of writing

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a classic Gothic novel
has a castle as its setting,

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and a governess or
a gentlewoman in distress.

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Like you.

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You won't be meeting

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too many intellectuals out here.

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It might get a little lonesome.

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I've come here to work, not socialize.

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Well, this is Cross Creek.

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How many people live in Cross Creek?

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Now, let's see...

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There's never been more than...

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Say, uh...

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A dozen families.

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You got to be a little crazy

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to live out at the creek.

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Ah, no offense, ma'am.

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The way I look at it is,

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if an attractive woman wants to hike

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herself out into the middle of nowhere,

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it is her business.

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There she is.

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Your new home.

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Place here looks slightly run down.

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I guess you'll be wanting me

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to take you back into town.

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That won't be necessary, thank you.

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Here, let me.

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How much do I owe you?

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Not a thing.

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That's ridiculous.

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I'd like to pay for my ride.

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Ha. The way I look at it,

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you're a potential customer.

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After a night out here,

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you'll move to the hotel

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gladly.

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I'll, uh...

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Get a room ready for you.

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I won't be needing it.

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Careful, now.

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That thing is liable to give out

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any minute.

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I'll look in on you tomorrow.

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I'll be perfectly fine, Mr. Baskin.

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Of course you will.

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I'll come around noon.

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I'll be working.

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It's no trouble at all.

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Mr. Baskin...

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I'll get the rest of the luggage.

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It's nice to meet you, Miss Rawlings.

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My plan had been to live
off my orange crops,

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but the grove had been long untended.

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And as I had filed for divorce,

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I was too proud to accept
any money from Charles.

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I hear tell you lookin' for a girl.

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Take me.

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Well, I come for the job.

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I can't pay very high wages.

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Any wages is better than nothin'.

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I got to get work.

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I got use for my pay.

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I don't think that you'd be satisfied

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so far from town.

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Oh, town ain't nothin' to me!

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Oh, you don't know.

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I don't do no courtin'.

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I don't want no man around me.

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I'm sure that it wouldn't suit you.

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If I don't suit you,
you can cut my throat.

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This porch floor ain't been scrubbed.

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You got to have clean things.

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I'll be here tomorrow.
I gotta go fetch my things!

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Wait, I don't know anything about you.

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I don't know your name,
or where you came from.

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I be Geechee.

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You don't need to know
no more than that.

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Hello? Hello?

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Hello!

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Hello?

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I'm Marsh Turner called.

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This is my daughter Ellie.

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Mornin'.

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You can do better than that, young'un.

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Pleased to meet you, ma'am.

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I'm Marjorie Rawlings.

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Yes, ma'am.

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We're just wonderin' whether you had...

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had a comfortable night.

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Yes, I did. Thank you.

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No troubles?

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No. None at all.

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Sometimes, city folks
think they hear things

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at night.

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Bears or gators.

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I slept very well, thank you.

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Looks washed out.

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Sure could use some paint.

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That's exactly what I intend to do.

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You gonna fix it yourself?

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Yes.

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Well, that roof leaks real bad, now.

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Well...

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I'll just have to fix that, too.

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That's a real enterprising woman.

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You get to patching that roof,

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and you fall off and break
a leg or something,

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you give us a holler.
We'll come fetch you.

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That's what neighbors are for.

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Good day to you, ma'am.

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Some sage and lily root

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will ease up on that rash.

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Hey...

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Didn't mean to scare you.

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There's a Cottonmouth.

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Deadly.

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Where I be puttin' my things?

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In the room back of the kitchen.

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Nobody been caring
for things around here.

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Geechee...

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We'll set that right.

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I'm not sure that
this is gonna work out.

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You see, I'm a writer.

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And my privacy is essential to me.

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Nobody be botherin' you,
don't you worry.

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I'm working, and it's difficult

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to concentrate when
there are people around.

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You just write, I'll clean up the house.

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Yes, well...

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We'll try that.

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Listen.

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I don't care if the roof falls in.

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I don't want to be disturbed

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unless it's a life or death emergency.

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- Is that clear?
- Yes'm.

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Miss Rawlings,

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you be wantin' beaten
biscuits with your lunch,

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or spoon bread?

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Beaten.

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Oh, my.

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Good morning.

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Mornin'.

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He's beautiful, Ellie.

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My Pa says to put this on your rash

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3 times a day.

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Oh, thank you.

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My Ma says we're gonna have

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a pound party next Saturday.

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She'd be most proud if you'd come.

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I'd be delighted to.

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What is a pound party?

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Everybody brings a pound of something.

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Sugar or butter or cake.

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Cake would be fine.

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Do you know how to bake a cake?

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I certainly do.

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What's his name?

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Oh, I call him Flag.

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On account of his tail.

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Kinda looks like a flag.

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Well, that's a good name for him.

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My Pa don't believe in keeping pets.

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But Flag's special.

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He's real smart and knows his name.

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He likes you.

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Why does your father
not believe in keeping pets?

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Milk's sometimes scarce.

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But I don't need milk now.

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So Flag gets my share.

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Do you go to school?

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My Ma taught us how to read,

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and I'm a pretty fair shot.

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It must get lonely out here.

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Used to be.

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But not since Flag.

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I'll come show you the way Saturday.

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All right.

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Mornin'.

279
00:24:40,072 --> 00:24:41,842
Mornin'?

280
00:24:51,217 --> 00:24:53,485
Miss Rawlings is busy workin'.

281
00:24:53,518 --> 00:24:55,221
Mornin'.

282
00:25:03,864 --> 00:25:06,733
Like to go for a little spin?

283
00:25:06,767 --> 00:25:07,700
I have work to do.

284
00:25:07,700 --> 00:25:10,970
I thought you'd like to try her out.

285
00:25:11,236 --> 00:25:14,006
Mr. Baskin, I don't really
have time for games.

286
00:25:14,040 --> 00:25:17,810
Well, I figured that you
might be needing a car.

287
00:25:17,843 --> 00:25:19,378
It is a long walk into town.

288
00:25:19,411 --> 00:25:22,982
So, I brought one out for you to try.

289
00:25:23,849 --> 00:25:25,085
I can't afford a car.

290
00:25:25,117 --> 00:25:27,220
You can afford this one, Miss Rawlings.

291
00:25:27,253 --> 00:25:29,222
Put your shoes on, I'll show it to you.

292
00:25:29,255 --> 00:25:31,825
'Course, it's not what
you'd call a formal car.

293
00:25:31,857 --> 00:25:33,358
So if you'd like to come as you are,

294
00:25:33,393 --> 00:25:34,126
that'd be fine.

295
00:25:34,159 --> 00:25:36,229
It's all right if I clean up now?

296
00:25:36,262 --> 00:25:38,231
Yes. Thank you.

297
00:25:38,264 --> 00:25:40,500
And if you want to put on a summer dress

298
00:25:40,532 --> 00:25:42,235
and pack a nice picnic lunch,

299
00:25:42,268 --> 00:25:43,436
that'd be fine, too.

300
00:25:43,468 --> 00:25:44,871
You don't want to turn it down

301
00:25:44,905 --> 00:25:46,239
before you look it over.

302
00:25:46,272 --> 00:25:49,843
- Mr. Baskin...
- Norton.

303
00:25:49,876 --> 00:25:50,844
I appreciate your concern,

304
00:25:50,877 --> 00:25:52,978
but I can't possibly afford a car.

305
00:25:53,013 --> 00:25:53,847
So if you'll just excuse me...

306
00:25:53,880 --> 00:25:55,882
No ma'am, I certainly do not excuse you.

307
00:25:55,916 --> 00:25:58,318
Now, I've considered
that you're new here,

308
00:25:58,351 --> 00:26:01,153
and that you're nervous
about starting out.

309
00:26:01,186 --> 00:26:02,255
But you're being pig-headed.

310
00:26:02,288 --> 00:26:04,189
I didn't come to sell you a car.

311
00:26:04,223 --> 00:26:06,558
I put 2 and 2 together,
and as far as I can tell,

312
00:26:06,591 --> 00:26:09,129
you don't have anybody to depend on.

313
00:26:09,161 --> 00:26:10,529
I'm perfectly capable of taking...

314
00:26:10,562 --> 00:26:12,398
I don't care how perfectly capable

315
00:26:12,431 --> 00:26:13,999
you may think you are.

316
00:26:14,034 --> 00:26:15,535
The fact is that you don't have

317
00:26:15,567 --> 00:26:16,902
a means of transportation.

318
00:26:16,936 --> 00:26:19,005
Now, maybe I'm out of line,

319
00:26:19,038 --> 00:26:20,006
but I took it upon myself

320
00:26:20,039 --> 00:26:22,474
to fetch that old jalopy of yours.

321
00:26:22,508 --> 00:26:24,945
It doesn't run.

322
00:26:24,977 --> 00:26:28,047
It does now.

323
00:26:29,481 --> 00:26:31,351
Oh.

324
00:26:33,185 --> 00:26:35,788
So how much do I owe you?

325
00:26:36,188 --> 00:26:38,057
I brought it out here as a gift.

326
00:26:38,091 --> 00:26:41,928
If that offends you, I'm sorry.

327
00:26:41,962 --> 00:26:43,329
But I sure as hell didn't come here

328
00:26:43,363 --> 00:26:46,198
to take nothin' from you.

329
00:26:51,337 --> 00:26:53,339
Mr. Baskin?

330
00:26:56,641 --> 00:27:00,145
Would you like a cup of coffee?

331
00:27:09,021 --> 00:27:11,958
Oh, my goodness.

332
00:27:17,096 --> 00:27:19,098
It looks brand-new.

333
00:27:19,132 --> 00:27:23,102
All it needed was
a little love and affection.

334
00:27:25,505 --> 00:27:27,207
I'd like to pay you for whatever

335
00:27:27,239 --> 00:27:29,108
it cost you to do that.

336
00:27:30,076 --> 00:27:33,379
Are all writers stubborn,
or is it just you?

337
00:27:33,413 --> 00:27:35,882
Is it a deal?

338
00:27:39,019 --> 00:27:41,220
Well, seeing as how
we're in business together,

339
00:27:41,253 --> 00:27:43,856
you could do me a favor.

340
00:27:44,390 --> 00:27:47,894
I'm gonna need a lift back to town.

341
00:27:57,003 --> 00:27:59,372
The party was a welcome respite

342
00:27:59,405 --> 00:28:00,573
from my work.

343
00:28:00,605 --> 00:28:03,576
I looked forward to seeing Ellie again.

344
00:28:03,608 --> 00:28:07,013
She stood on the threshold of womanhood.

345
00:28:07,047 --> 00:28:10,116
Clinging to her Fawn
as if he were the last

346
00:28:10,149 --> 00:28:12,518
of her youthful dreams.

347
00:28:22,027 --> 00:28:23,196
Mama...

348
00:28:23,229 --> 00:28:25,631
Miss Rawlings here.

349
00:28:32,304 --> 00:28:35,340
How lovely of you to come.

350
00:28:35,374 --> 00:28:36,541
I expect the other guests

351
00:28:36,576 --> 00:28:39,012
will be here momentarily.

352
00:28:39,044 --> 00:28:40,680
And this is for you.

353
00:28:40,712 --> 00:28:42,214
Oh, thank you.

354
00:28:42,247 --> 00:28:44,951
How sweet of you.

355
00:28:44,985 --> 00:28:47,352
Please, sit down.

356
00:29:02,468 --> 00:29:06,539
It'll help keep the mosquitoes off you.

357
00:29:11,743 --> 00:29:14,947
Feels like rain.

358
00:29:15,348 --> 00:29:19,051
The children picked
blackberries all afternoon.

359
00:29:19,084 --> 00:29:21,454
We had a blackberry patch,
but my husband's hogs

360
00:29:21,486 --> 00:29:23,588
just helped theirselves
till there wasn't

361
00:29:23,622 --> 00:29:24,723
anything left.

362
00:29:24,757 --> 00:29:29,329
I enjoy picking berries.

363
00:29:29,361 --> 00:29:34,500
Floyd, blow some for our company.

364
00:29:35,635 --> 00:29:38,004
Mary.

365
00:29:38,038 --> 00:29:40,339
Floyd talks to the animals.

366
00:29:40,372 --> 00:29:45,111
They come callin' for him every mornin'.

367
00:30:06,566 --> 00:30:08,000
Did Mary dance?

368
00:30:08,000 --> 00:30:10,236
No, ma'am.

369
00:30:10,269 --> 00:30:12,405
Mary.

370
00:30:25,484 --> 00:30:28,653
I believe the others have been held up.

371
00:30:28,688 --> 00:30:31,124
Billy, Preston?

372
00:30:31,156 --> 00:30:33,292
You may bring out the refreshments.

373
00:30:33,326 --> 00:30:36,028
Yes, ma'am.

374
00:31:29,414 --> 00:31:32,385
Thank you.

375
00:32:34,613 --> 00:32:35,780
No, I get her. I get Flag.

376
00:32:35,815 --> 00:32:37,250
Taste good, doesn't it, Flag?

377
00:32:37,282 --> 00:32:40,585
Ma, Ellie said I could play with Flag.

378
00:32:41,553 --> 00:32:42,788
Tastes good, huh?

379
00:32:42,822 --> 00:32:44,824
Y'all havin' a good time?

380
00:32:46,625 --> 00:32:47,693
Hello, Miss Rawlings.

381
00:32:47,727 --> 00:32:48,661
- Hey, Bubba!
- Hello.

382
00:32:48,694 --> 00:32:53,433
I brought you a nice
soft-tailed critter, here.

383
00:33:10,715 --> 00:33:14,320
He should be tied behind the house.

384
00:33:14,720 --> 00:33:16,455
But he's so small, Bubba.

385
00:33:16,489 --> 00:33:19,291
I'm scared a Wildcat might get him.

386
00:33:19,324 --> 00:33:21,494
Cake's as light as a feather.

387
00:33:21,527 --> 00:33:24,196
Go on, now.

388
00:33:25,265 --> 00:33:27,433
I saved you a piece, Bubba.

389
00:33:27,466 --> 00:33:30,270
Go on, now.

390
00:33:34,940 --> 00:33:38,677
Could Flag stay in? Just for tonight?

391
00:33:39,678 --> 00:33:42,315
He belongs in the woods, you know that.

392
00:33:42,348 --> 00:33:44,484
Yes, sir.

393
00:33:48,754 --> 00:33:50,589
But seeing it's a special day,

394
00:33:50,622 --> 00:33:51,891
you can leave him be.

395
00:33:51,924 --> 00:33:55,795
Oh, thank you, Bubba.

396
00:34:01,032 --> 00:34:03,602
We're having a wonderful party.

397
00:34:03,635 --> 00:34:07,773
Threat of bad weather
kept the other guests away.

398
00:34:08,240 --> 00:34:12,445
We had a lovely conversation, didn't we?

399
00:34:13,579 --> 00:34:14,447
Yes.

400
00:34:14,479 --> 00:34:18,517
I'm gonna send Mary over
with some dresses.

401
00:34:28,393 --> 00:34:32,397
I'll be taking Miss Rawlings home now.

402
00:34:43,476 --> 00:34:46,045
I had a lovely afternoon, thank you.

403
00:34:46,077 --> 00:34:48,047
It was a pleasure.

404
00:34:48,079 --> 00:34:51,317
Good-bye.

405
00:34:55,855 --> 00:34:59,959
Ellie, now you come
help me with the dishes.

406
00:34:59,992 --> 00:35:00,926
All you children...

407
00:35:07,098 --> 00:35:10,002
I want lace trim on the sleeve.

408
00:35:10,035 --> 00:35:11,437
Stitch it nice and small,

409
00:35:11,470 --> 00:35:15,007
so the thread doesn't show through.

410
00:36:02,888 --> 00:36:05,525
She was a visitor.

411
00:36:06,492 --> 00:36:08,159
She came to a local square dance.

412
00:36:08,192 --> 00:36:11,896
I couldn't keep my eyes off her.

413
00:36:13,031 --> 00:36:15,134
Shoulda let her be.

414
00:36:15,166 --> 00:36:15,967
Heh.

415
00:36:16,001 --> 00:36:18,136
She'll be sending you clothes to mend,

416
00:36:18,170 --> 00:36:21,039
dresses to sew.

417
00:36:21,640 --> 00:36:24,877
Well, I'm afraid that...

418
00:36:24,910 --> 00:36:25,878
I haven't any need to...

419
00:36:25,911 --> 00:36:27,613
Aw, she's good-hearted.

420
00:36:27,646 --> 00:36:29,482
Don't pay her no mind.

421
00:36:29,514 --> 00:36:31,816
She's slipping away from us.

422
00:36:31,850 --> 00:36:35,187
She's found herself
a more peaceful world.

423
00:36:35,219 --> 00:36:38,022
This creek's hard on folks.

424
00:36:38,057 --> 00:36:40,426
Particularly women.

425
00:36:40,460 --> 00:36:44,096
I'm not afraid of living hand-to-mouth.

426
00:36:45,064 --> 00:36:47,766
Well, that's what it'll be.

427
00:36:47,799 --> 00:36:50,201
I guess you'll make out.

428
00:36:50,234 --> 00:36:53,838
Folks around here have
to scratch and scramble.

429
00:36:53,872 --> 00:36:55,206
The people that love it,

430
00:36:55,239 --> 00:36:56,808
they stay here till they die,

431
00:36:56,841 --> 00:37:00,412
and if they don't, they move on.

432
00:37:35,247 --> 00:37:36,248
Are we lost?

433
00:37:36,280 --> 00:37:38,883
This here's the River Styx.

434
00:37:38,917 --> 00:37:41,220
But I live at Cross Creek.

435
00:37:41,252 --> 00:37:43,956
Don't worry, I'll get you
there, Miss Rawlings.

436
00:37:43,989 --> 00:37:46,726
Somebody I want you to meet.

437
00:37:47,993 --> 00:37:49,995
Got a gator hole right here.

438
00:37:50,029 --> 00:37:53,698
You don't want to step in it. Heh.

439
00:37:53,733 --> 00:37:56,135
You're not even afraid
of gators, are you?

440
00:37:56,168 --> 00:37:59,838
Ever been bit by one?

441
00:37:59,871 --> 00:38:03,875
- Not recently.
- Ha!

442
00:38:15,153 --> 00:38:16,655
Watch your step, now.

443
00:38:16,688 --> 00:38:19,959
Wouldn't want to fish you out.

444
00:38:44,916 --> 00:38:46,317
This here's young Paul.

445
00:38:46,350 --> 00:38:49,154
We call him "P".

446
00:38:49,188 --> 00:38:49,854
This is Miss Rawlings.

447
00:38:49,888 --> 00:38:53,292
She's looking for a hired man.

448
00:38:53,324 --> 00:38:55,827
I could start on Monday.

449
00:38:55,994 --> 00:38:57,796
Well, I'm not sure that I can afford...

450
00:38:57,828 --> 00:39:00,031
Oh, he'll work out. He's a good 'un.

451
00:39:00,064 --> 00:39:03,934
Give you more time with your writing.

452
00:39:05,070 --> 00:39:08,540
Oh, I like this batch, "P".

453
00:39:10,709 --> 00:39:13,545
- Well...
- Good!

454
00:39:14,212 --> 00:39:16,981
It's settled, then?

455
00:39:19,885 --> 00:39:22,587
Would you like a little taste of this?

456
00:39:23,388 --> 00:39:24,657
Oh, thank you.

457
00:39:24,689 --> 00:39:27,159
Here's to you.

458
00:39:28,993 --> 00:39:30,962
Ah, that's good.

459
00:39:37,169 --> 00:39:41,305
How'd you... how did you know
I was a writer?

460
00:39:44,243 --> 00:39:45,711
Wildcat's not the only thing

461
00:39:45,745 --> 00:39:48,213
that prowls around in the dark.

462
00:39:52,016 --> 00:39:53,218
I seem to have very little say

463
00:39:53,252 --> 00:39:56,656
about who I will and will not hire.

464
00:39:57,189 --> 00:40:00,992
That's the way it is
at the creek, ma'am.

465
00:40:03,895 --> 00:40:05,665
'Scuse me.

466
00:40:08,600 --> 00:40:12,972
I do intend to write
at least 8 hours a day.

467
00:40:13,005 --> 00:40:16,842
All right, I've decided
to hire your friend Paul.

468
00:40:16,875 --> 00:40:18,777
Ha! You yankee women like to make

469
00:40:18,810 --> 00:40:20,378
all the decisions, don't you?

470
00:40:20,412 --> 00:40:22,848
Well, if you stay, I'll take you

471
00:40:22,881 --> 00:40:24,382
on a gator hunt.

472
00:40:24,416 --> 00:40:28,252
I'll be staying, Mr. Turner.

473
00:40:33,758 --> 00:40:35,627
Ellie!

474
00:40:39,431 --> 00:40:43,135
This old bed may seem
like pure "D" trash to you,

475
00:40:43,168 --> 00:40:46,672
but if you want it, it's yours.

476
00:40:46,706 --> 00:40:48,273
It's beautiful, Marsh.

477
00:40:48,307 --> 00:40:52,745
Well, it's been layin' up
in my barn about 50 years.

478
00:40:52,778 --> 00:40:55,214
You want it?

479
00:40:55,247 --> 00:41:00,285
Way I figure, a thing
deserves to be used.

480
00:41:00,319 --> 00:41:02,154
Used right.

481
00:41:02,187 --> 00:41:03,689
You livin' nice.

482
00:41:03,723 --> 00:41:05,890
You're taking care of this old grove.

483
00:41:05,925 --> 00:41:07,426
You're the one to have it.

484
00:41:07,458 --> 00:41:08,660
Been sittin' up all these years

485
00:41:08,660 --> 00:41:11,095
waitin' for the right person.

486
00:41:16,334 --> 00:41:19,370
You got bugs in them collards.

487
00:41:21,940 --> 00:41:24,442
You better dust 'em.

488
00:41:24,476 --> 00:41:26,077
You're gonna stay behind
and show her how,

489
00:41:26,110 --> 00:41:29,214
won't you, Ellie, sweetheart?

490
00:41:29,481 --> 00:41:31,216
What's that fine, handsome car

491
00:41:31,250 --> 00:41:32,184
you got sittin' out front?

492
00:41:32,217 --> 00:41:36,922
Mr. Norton, Mr. Baskin
brought that out to me.

493
00:41:36,955 --> 00:41:38,823
It's my car. He just fixed it.

494
00:41:38,858 --> 00:41:40,925
That's all right, Marjorie.

495
00:41:40,960 --> 00:41:44,696
There's no need to explain anything.

496
00:41:45,496 --> 00:41:47,131
Well, now,

497
00:41:47,165 --> 00:41:48,499
painted your house,

498
00:41:48,532 --> 00:41:51,002
planted some collards,

499
00:41:51,035 --> 00:41:54,206
bought yourself a mule.

500
00:41:54,239 --> 00:41:55,474
Fixed your car.

501
00:41:55,506 --> 00:41:58,978
I think you're settlin' in.

502
00:41:59,010 --> 00:42:03,081
We gonna take you
on a gator hunt real soon.

503
00:42:03,114 --> 00:42:04,349
Thank you.

504
00:42:04,383 --> 00:42:07,219
First we gonna start out
with something easy,

505
00:42:07,252 --> 00:42:08,720
say a Bear hunt.

506
00:42:14,860 --> 00:42:16,128
Marsh...

507
00:42:16,160 --> 00:42:18,830
You want it, Marjorie?

508
00:42:18,863 --> 00:42:21,733
It's yours. Come on.

509
00:42:33,577 --> 00:42:35,379
Marsh Turner and his family

510
00:42:35,414 --> 00:42:37,249
were unlike any of the friends

511
00:42:37,282 --> 00:42:38,851
I had known before.

512
00:42:38,883 --> 00:42:40,451
I was drawn to them.

513
00:42:40,485 --> 00:42:43,789
The rustic cottage, the children.

514
00:42:43,823 --> 00:42:45,024
I wondered if, like them,

515
00:42:45,056 --> 00:42:48,894
I'd find peace in my new world.

516
00:42:49,361 --> 00:42:51,530
Paul was caring for my grove,

517
00:42:51,562 --> 00:42:55,367
and Geechee watched over the house.

518
00:42:57,568 --> 00:43:00,873
Sometimes in the distance
in the hammock swamp,

519
00:43:00,906 --> 00:43:03,876
I could hear the felling
of Cyprus trees.

520
00:43:03,909 --> 00:43:06,812
I was learning that
the grove was hard fought,

521
00:43:06,846 --> 00:43:10,149
and hard maintained,
and must always as a child

522
00:43:10,181 --> 00:43:13,584
be kept safe from a sudden frost.

523
00:43:13,618 --> 00:43:16,155
I could now concentrate on my writing,

524
00:43:16,188 --> 00:43:19,223
but each word was a struggle.

525
00:43:19,258 --> 00:43:22,827
Phrases, lines, paragraphs eluded me.

526
00:43:22,862 --> 00:43:24,363
I had been here for some time.

527
00:43:24,395 --> 00:43:26,165
A story wasn't half-finished,

528
00:43:26,197 --> 00:43:30,035
and my funds were trickling slowly away.

529
00:43:30,068 --> 00:43:32,171
Whoo-ho!

530
00:43:32,203 --> 00:43:34,306
Whoo-whoo, sooie!

531
00:43:36,108 --> 00:43:38,043
Hog! Hog! Hyah! Hyah!

532
00:43:38,076 --> 00:43:40,946
Oh, for heaven's sake. Geechee!

533
00:43:40,980 --> 00:43:42,046
Hyah!

534
00:43:42,081 --> 00:43:44,215
For Pete's sake!

535
00:43:44,248 --> 00:43:45,350
Get out of there!

536
00:43:45,384 --> 00:43:48,186
Get, get! Get out of here!

537
00:43:48,219 --> 00:43:48,888
Get on! Aah!

538
00:43:48,921 --> 00:43:50,522
Miss Rawlings they got your...

539
00:43:50,554 --> 00:43:51,590
Mr. Turner.

540
00:43:51,622 --> 00:43:53,859
Good afternoon, ma'am.

541
00:43:53,893 --> 00:43:56,194
Go on, get outta here!

542
00:43:56,227 --> 00:43:57,195
Get, get! Look at this.

543
00:43:57,228 --> 00:43:59,598
Yah! Yah! Damn it, go on!

544
00:44:01,901 --> 00:44:06,371
Mr. Turner, your pigs ate my flowers.

545
00:44:07,039 --> 00:44:11,576
I see my hogs been bothering you.

546
00:44:12,376 --> 00:44:16,280
If them hogs ever come
back here to bother you,

547
00:44:16,314 --> 00:44:18,482
them's your hogs!

548
00:44:18,516 --> 00:44:20,484
Haa! Soo!

549
00:44:20,518 --> 00:44:22,120
Ya-yo!

550
00:44:22,154 --> 00:44:23,521
Yo-ho!

551
00:44:23,554 --> 00:44:26,091
Yo, hog! Damn you!

552
00:44:26,124 --> 00:44:27,526
Hyah! Hyah!

553
00:44:27,558 --> 00:44:29,028
Hyah!

554
00:44:29,060 --> 00:44:30,229
Whoa!

555
00:44:47,678 --> 00:44:50,415
I'm done to suit you?

556
00:44:50,449 --> 00:44:51,650
Yes.

557
00:44:51,682 --> 00:44:54,386
You trust me?

558
00:44:54,419 --> 00:44:56,120
Yes.

559
00:44:56,155 --> 00:44:58,657
I got a thing to tell you.

560
00:44:58,689 --> 00:45:01,393
I gotta have help.

561
00:45:01,426 --> 00:45:04,529
These here is from my man.

562
00:45:04,563 --> 00:45:07,298
Read 'em.

563
00:45:16,507 --> 00:45:18,477
"My sweet Beatrice..."

564
00:45:18,509 --> 00:45:21,579
That's what he calls me by.

565
00:45:23,447 --> 00:45:26,050
"I gotta get out, I can't stand it.

566
00:45:26,085 --> 00:45:27,419
"You gotta get me a job,

567
00:45:27,452 --> 00:45:28,686
so they let me out."

568
00:45:28,720 --> 00:45:30,489
He in the state prison.

569
00:45:30,522 --> 00:45:32,556
You can get him out.

570
00:45:32,591 --> 00:45:33,691
You can write 'em a letter

571
00:45:33,725 --> 00:45:36,962
and say you got work for him.

572
00:45:38,597 --> 00:45:39,598
But it says here,

573
00:45:39,630 --> 00:45:42,034
"20 years for manslaughter."

574
00:45:42,067 --> 00:45:43,234
He didn't do nothin'.

575
00:45:43,267 --> 00:45:45,303
The other nigger was layin' for him.

576
00:45:45,336 --> 00:45:47,371
And he come at Leroy
and he bopped him one,

577
00:45:47,405 --> 00:45:49,441
and Leroy, see, he's strong,

578
00:45:49,474 --> 00:45:51,043
and he made a pass at him,

579
00:45:51,076 --> 00:45:53,045
and it done killed him.

580
00:45:53,078 --> 00:45:57,016
You need another man
out here to help out.

581
00:45:59,484 --> 00:46:02,454
Geechee, I'm not sure

582
00:46:02,487 --> 00:46:04,322
I can afford to hire anyone else.

583
00:46:04,355 --> 00:46:05,490
Money don't matter.

584
00:46:05,524 --> 00:46:07,325
You write the superintendent a letter.

585
00:46:07,358 --> 00:46:08,960
He'd listen to you.

586
00:46:08,960 --> 00:46:12,630
'Cause you the writer.

587
00:46:15,300 --> 00:46:20,372
Well, fine, don't expect to...

588
00:46:45,530 --> 00:46:47,099
This is my cousin, Tim.

589
00:46:47,132 --> 00:46:49,501
Him and his wife come out to help.

590
00:46:49,534 --> 00:46:51,402
Thank you. If you like,

591
00:46:51,435 --> 00:46:56,141
you can stay in the shack
at the end of the grove.

592
00:46:56,407 --> 00:46:59,310
How much longer can my grove
last without water?

593
00:46:59,343 --> 00:47:02,647
Well... Leaves will be comin' up.

594
00:47:02,681 --> 00:47:06,151
I don't know what that means.

595
00:47:06,685 --> 00:47:09,020
It means you might lose your crop.

596
00:47:13,592 --> 00:47:15,826
Well, I just can't sit here and watch

597
00:47:15,860 --> 00:47:18,562
while my orange grove dies.

598
00:47:19,163 --> 00:47:21,132
Ma'am, Tim and I can't haul all this

599
00:47:21,165 --> 00:47:23,701
out of here by ourselves.

600
00:47:40,184 --> 00:47:41,285
What do I do?

601
00:47:41,320 --> 00:47:43,487
A woman can't do this kind of work.

602
00:47:43,521 --> 00:47:44,488
It ain't right.

603
00:47:44,522 --> 00:47:45,557
Don't you tell me

604
00:47:45,590 --> 00:47:48,260
what a woman can and cannot do.

605
00:48:01,606 --> 00:48:04,109
Uhh.

606
00:48:14,619 --> 00:48:16,488
Well?

607
00:48:29,401 --> 00:48:31,502
Tim?

608
00:48:31,770 --> 00:48:34,773
That was a good day's work, thank you.

609
00:48:38,242 --> 00:48:38,876
Ma'am,

610
00:48:38,910 --> 00:48:41,213
The w-wife needs

611
00:48:41,246 --> 00:48:42,881
to use the w-water pump once a day.

612
00:48:42,913 --> 00:48:44,249
I w-wouldn't ask,

613
00:48:44,283 --> 00:48:47,219
but she'll be havin' a child shortly.

614
00:48:47,252 --> 00:48:48,620
She's welcome to use mine.

615
00:48:48,653 --> 00:48:49,621
If she needs anything at all...

616
00:48:49,654 --> 00:48:51,355
W-water's all she'll be wantin'.

617
00:48:51,390 --> 00:48:54,393
That's a-all I'll be askin'.

618
00:48:58,929 --> 00:49:01,633
He's used to livin' in the woods,

619
00:49:01,666 --> 00:49:02,334
more than me.

620
00:49:02,366 --> 00:49:06,271
Can't seem to abide by people.

621
00:49:07,806 --> 00:49:13,512
* we are climbin' Jacob's ladder *

622
00:49:13,545 --> 00:49:20,818
* we are climbin' Jacob's ladder *

623
00:49:21,285 --> 00:49:27,659
* we are climbin' Jacob's ladder *

624
00:49:27,692 --> 00:49:33,164
* soldiers of the cross *

625
00:49:50,981 --> 00:49:52,884
Tim said it'd be all right.

626
00:49:52,916 --> 00:49:55,787
Of course it's all right.

627
00:49:59,657 --> 00:50:00,725
Would you like to sit down

628
00:50:00,759 --> 00:50:03,328
and rest for a minute?

629
00:50:28,753 --> 00:50:30,889
It's heavy.

630
00:50:30,921 --> 00:50:33,357
Thank you, ma'am.

631
00:51:13,063 --> 00:51:15,300
Dear Max,

632
00:51:15,334 --> 00:51:17,067
here it is, finally,

633
00:51:17,101 --> 00:51:19,937
my Gothic story about an English tutor

634
00:51:19,970 --> 00:51:20,904
and her misadventures

635
00:51:20,938 --> 00:51:24,375
in a nobleman's ancient castle.

636
00:51:24,408 --> 00:51:27,911
I think it's the best story
I've ever written,

637
00:51:27,946 --> 00:51:29,781
and I'm sending it off to you,

638
00:51:29,814 --> 00:51:34,085
positive that I will
finally be published.

639
00:51:34,117 --> 00:51:37,589
So much happens here at Cross Creek.

640
00:51:37,621 --> 00:51:40,859
Max, I'm attempting
to get Geechee's boyfriend

641
00:51:40,892 --> 00:51:43,694
out of jail and build a dam.

642
00:51:43,727 --> 00:51:46,398
Young Ellie follows the fortunes

643
00:51:46,431 --> 00:51:49,934
of my grove as closely
as if it had been her own.

644
00:51:49,968 --> 00:51:51,836
She and her Fawn are my coworkers

645
00:51:51,870 --> 00:51:54,839
over the hazardous fortunes of my crop.

646
00:51:54,873 --> 00:51:59,610
If there can be such a thing
as instinctual memory,

647
00:51:59,643 --> 00:52:03,448
the consciousness of land and water

648
00:52:03,482 --> 00:52:04,949
must lie deeper in the core of us

649
00:52:04,983 --> 00:52:08,987
than any knowledge of our fellow beings.

650
00:52:09,320 --> 00:52:10,489
We were bred of the earth

651
00:52:10,521 --> 00:52:13,090
before we were born of our mothers.

652
00:52:13,123 --> 00:52:17,961
Once born, we can
live without our mothers

653
00:52:17,995 --> 00:52:19,430
or... Fathers,

654
00:52:19,463 --> 00:52:23,434
or any other kin, or any friend,

655
00:52:23,467 --> 00:52:25,837
or human love.

656
00:52:25,870 --> 00:52:28,573
We cannot live without the earth,

657
00:52:28,606 --> 00:52:30,974
or apart from it.

658
00:52:31,009 --> 00:52:33,845
And something is shriveled
in man's heart

659
00:52:33,878 --> 00:52:35,580
when he turns away from it,

660
00:52:35,613 --> 00:52:39,983
and concerns himself only
with the affairs of men.

661
00:52:40,018 --> 00:52:42,887
Come on, mule, come on!

662
00:54:01,633 --> 00:54:03,834
Miss Rawlings!

663
00:54:05,235 --> 00:54:07,871
We did good!

664
00:54:08,139 --> 00:54:11,975
We did magnificently!

665
00:54:30,194 --> 00:54:32,730
My, my, my.

666
00:54:33,532 --> 00:54:35,500
This is my utterly deadly

667
00:54:35,534 --> 00:54:37,601
southern pecan pie.

668
00:54:37,636 --> 00:54:38,837
My, my.

669
00:54:38,869 --> 00:54:42,607
I never ate better in my life.

670
00:54:44,175 --> 00:54:45,243
Do you want more coffee?

671
00:54:45,275 --> 00:54:47,911
I don't mind if I do.

672
00:54:53,017 --> 00:54:54,852
Delicious.

673
00:54:54,885 --> 00:54:57,220
My own recipe.

674
00:54:59,222 --> 00:55:02,060
Candles, flowers,

675
00:55:02,093 --> 00:55:04,828
delicious home-cooked meal...

676
00:55:05,029 --> 00:55:07,031
I must have done an awfully good job

677
00:55:07,065 --> 00:55:08,266
on that car.

678
00:55:08,298 --> 00:55:11,902
I take it it's still running smoothly?

679
00:55:12,203 --> 00:55:14,773
Perfectly smoothly.

680
00:55:19,911 --> 00:55:22,513
To my first dinner guest.

681
00:55:38,929 --> 00:55:41,332
There's still plenty of pie.

682
00:55:41,364 --> 00:55:43,867
Hmm.

683
00:55:45,704 --> 00:55:49,140
We could eat it in the mornin'.

684
00:55:53,944 --> 00:55:57,881
Don't you think that'd
be a good idea, Marjorie?

685
00:55:59,382 --> 00:56:03,087
Is your governess
still lost on the Moors?

686
00:56:06,224 --> 00:56:08,992
Now you know what I would do?

687
00:56:09,560 --> 00:56:11,930
I would give her a full moon...

688
00:56:11,962 --> 00:56:14,933
something like what we have tonight...

689
00:56:14,966 --> 00:56:18,970
and a handsome lord.

690
00:56:19,169 --> 00:56:23,141
Well, he could look,
just a little bit like me.

691
00:56:23,173 --> 00:56:26,244
And he'll lead her safely home.

692
00:56:26,276 --> 00:56:28,912
I'm sure of it.

693
00:56:47,898 --> 00:56:49,734
Norton...

694
00:56:49,768 --> 00:56:51,835
You're a bit of a poet.

695
00:56:51,870 --> 00:56:54,272
Yes'm.

696
00:56:54,905 --> 00:56:59,878
With you... I think I'm everything.

697
00:58:05,108 --> 00:58:08,312
I thought you might like that.

698
00:58:09,680 --> 00:58:12,316
How are you getting on?

699
00:58:12,349 --> 00:58:15,720
Nothin' extra.

700
00:58:15,754 --> 00:58:18,956
There ain't no screens
to the house, and...

701
00:58:18,990 --> 00:58:21,025
The skeeters like to eat us alive.

702
00:58:21,059 --> 00:58:24,929
Can't keep the antses
out of Tim's breakfast.

703
00:58:24,962 --> 00:58:27,030
Why didn't anyone say anything to me?

704
00:58:27,065 --> 00:58:29,300
I had no idea. I'll see to it.

705
00:58:29,332 --> 00:58:31,235
Don't matter.

706
00:58:31,269 --> 00:58:34,972
We'll make out.

707
00:58:35,439 --> 00:58:37,809
That's a nice baby.

708
00:58:38,842 --> 00:58:42,280
The other didn't last till spring.

709
00:58:42,313 --> 00:58:44,415
This one might fare better.

710
00:58:44,447 --> 00:58:47,385
Till winter, maybe.

711
00:58:56,459 --> 00:58:58,461
I was wondering if your wife

712
00:58:58,496 --> 00:59:00,163
might help me at the house.

713
00:59:00,197 --> 00:59:03,200
Just a bit of light washing.

714
00:59:03,234 --> 00:59:03,935
W-white woman

715
00:59:03,967 --> 00:59:05,770
don't ask another w-white woman

716
00:59:05,804 --> 00:59:07,238
to do her washin'.

717
00:59:07,271 --> 00:59:11,141
Carry her slops, neither.

718
00:59:14,378 --> 00:59:17,115
Us'll be leavin' here now.

719
00:59:19,382 --> 00:59:23,154
I didn't mean to offend you.

720
00:59:24,888 --> 00:59:27,792
I was trying to be neighborly.

721
01:00:13,872 --> 01:00:16,807
Mail for you, Miss Rawlings.

722
01:00:19,110 --> 01:00:21,812
Thank you.

723
01:00:38,997 --> 01:00:41,098
"My dear Marjorie,

724
01:00:41,132 --> 01:00:42,533
"please, believe me when I say

725
01:00:42,565 --> 01:00:44,301
"it disappoints me as much as you

726
01:00:44,335 --> 01:00:47,204
"to have to return your manuscript.

727
01:00:47,237 --> 01:00:50,374
"Marjorie, your writing
is technically perfect,

728
01:00:50,408 --> 01:00:52,343
"yet it is still an imitation

729
01:00:52,376 --> 01:00:54,045
"of other authors' work.

730
01:00:54,077 --> 01:00:57,314
"Your letters to me about
your life in Cross Creek

731
01:00:57,348 --> 01:00:58,950
"are alive with emotion,

732
01:00:58,983 --> 01:01:01,318
"and I read them with such pleasure.

733
01:01:01,352 --> 01:01:04,555
"They are the most
revealing bits of life

734
01:01:04,587 --> 01:01:06,390
"that tells not trivial facts,

735
01:01:06,424 --> 01:01:08,091
"but human motives

736
01:01:08,126 --> 01:01:11,329
"and the secrets of human hearts.

737
01:01:11,362 --> 01:01:13,296
"That child who wants a dear,

738
01:01:13,331 --> 01:01:16,067
"the young couple who chose
to live in the woods

739
01:01:16,099 --> 01:01:19,437
"rather than conform to civilization.

740
01:01:19,469 --> 01:01:21,404
"Write me those stories,

741
01:01:21,439 --> 01:01:24,141
"not these English tea parties

742
01:01:24,175 --> 01:01:28,145
and Gothic tales
you know nothing about."

743
01:01:40,391 --> 01:01:42,325
Afternoon.

744
01:01:42,359 --> 01:01:43,661
Good afternoon.

745
01:01:43,693 --> 01:01:46,196
Sticky, isn't it?

746
01:01:47,565 --> 01:01:50,001
You know, I always did admire a woman

747
01:01:50,034 --> 01:01:51,435
without curiosity.

748
01:01:51,469 --> 01:01:53,504
Most women'd rip their mail open

749
01:01:53,537 --> 01:01:56,107
as soon as they got their hands on it.

750
01:01:56,139 --> 01:01:56,941
But you...

751
01:01:56,975 --> 01:01:59,276
there's no need for me to be curious.

752
01:01:59,309 --> 01:01:59,978
This is for Geechee,

753
01:02:00,011 --> 01:02:02,145
and this is a rejected story,

754
01:02:02,180 --> 01:02:04,415
and I don't want
to talk about it anymore.

755
01:02:04,448 --> 01:02:08,419
Well, I got a feeling
it's a mighty fine story.

756
01:02:08,452 --> 01:02:09,652
I doubt that.

757
01:02:09,687 --> 01:02:11,622
Good stories get published.

758
01:02:12,623 --> 01:02:16,060
Marjorie, I don't know
anything about writing,

759
01:02:16,093 --> 01:02:17,695
but I do know that
you're the kind of woman

760
01:02:17,727 --> 01:02:20,130
that's gonna be good at whatever it is

761
01:02:20,164 --> 01:02:22,199
she decides to do.

762
01:02:22,632 --> 01:02:24,968
Now you been through so much
since you came here,

763
01:02:25,003 --> 01:02:27,305
maybe you just need a little time

764
01:02:27,337 --> 01:02:30,573
for things to settle out.

765
01:02:30,608 --> 01:02:32,375
Thank you.

766
01:02:32,409 --> 01:02:36,346
Suppose I drop by later on?

767
01:07:03,381 --> 01:07:04,447
What you doin'?

768
01:07:04,482 --> 01:07:05,849
Put that thing down!

769
01:07:05,883 --> 01:07:06,516
Leave me alone!

770
01:07:06,549 --> 01:07:08,551
It's just Mr. Turner's pigs!

771
01:07:08,585 --> 01:07:10,220
I intend to shoot them.

772
01:07:10,220 --> 01:07:11,922
Aah!

773
01:07:13,490 --> 01:07:15,525
Aah! Get on up!

774
01:07:15,559 --> 01:07:17,728
Come in the house!

775
01:07:21,965 --> 01:07:23,266
Where's my gun?

776
01:07:23,301 --> 01:07:23,967
Come on in.

777
01:07:24,000 --> 01:07:25,935
- Here it is.
- Where's my gun?

778
01:07:25,969 --> 01:07:27,738
Miss, come in the house!

779
01:07:27,771 --> 01:07:29,872
You're gonna be sick!

780
01:07:32,042 --> 01:07:34,010
Whoa! Aah!

781
01:07:34,044 --> 01:07:36,914
Miss Rawlings!

782
01:07:36,946 --> 01:07:39,382
I think I got one!

783
01:07:39,417 --> 01:07:41,718
Get on in the house!

784
01:07:52,396 --> 01:07:53,263
Miss Rawlings not home.

785
01:07:53,297 --> 01:07:54,497
Would you tell her
I'd like to talk to her

786
01:07:54,532 --> 01:07:55,366
for a minute, please.

787
01:07:55,399 --> 01:07:56,499
I mean, she busy workin'.

788
01:07:56,534 --> 01:07:57,368
You can't see her.

789
01:07:57,401 --> 01:07:58,302
Better tell her I'm here.

790
01:07:58,336 --> 01:08:02,540
Thought just for a minute,
I'd speak to her.

791
01:08:02,572 --> 01:08:03,907
Geechee?

792
01:08:03,941 --> 01:08:05,809
Who is it?

793
01:08:05,843 --> 01:08:06,643
It's Mr. Turner,

794
01:08:06,676 --> 01:08:09,480
and he got that fresh fellow with him.

795
01:08:09,512 --> 01:08:10,280
Send them in.

796
01:08:10,280 --> 01:08:12,516
No, ma'am, you can't be entertainin'

797
01:08:12,549 --> 01:08:14,017
in your bedroom!

798
01:08:26,929 --> 01:08:29,766
You may come in, Mr. Turner.

799
01:08:33,971 --> 01:08:35,406
Debt to you, ma'am.

800
01:08:35,438 --> 01:08:36,706
Good morning.

801
01:08:36,739 --> 01:08:39,877
I'd like a cup of coffee, please.

802
01:08:43,013 --> 01:08:46,984
It was stormin' last night,
Miss Rawlings.

803
01:08:47,017 --> 01:08:47,750
Remember?

804
01:08:47,784 --> 01:08:51,589
What can I do for you, Mr. Turner?

805
01:08:53,524 --> 01:08:56,326
Somebody shot my pig.

806
01:08:59,696 --> 01:09:01,832
This is serious, Marjorie.

807
01:09:01,865 --> 01:09:03,566
I'd just like to know who.

808
01:09:03,601 --> 01:09:05,469
I shot your pig.

809
01:09:05,503 --> 01:09:09,473
It tormented me, and I shot it.

810
01:09:09,507 --> 01:09:11,975
That was my pig, Miss Rawlings.

811
01:09:12,009 --> 01:09:13,844
No, that was my pig.

812
01:09:13,876 --> 01:09:14,678
You gave that pig to me

813
01:09:14,712 --> 01:09:16,747
when you said that if they trespassed,

814
01:09:16,779 --> 01:09:19,449
they were mine.

815
01:09:19,482 --> 01:09:21,518
What kind of woman shoot a hog

816
01:09:21,551 --> 01:09:22,720
in the middle of a storm?

817
01:09:22,753 --> 01:09:24,120
Was it a good shot?

818
01:09:24,154 --> 01:09:25,455
No, ma'am, it was not,

819
01:09:25,488 --> 01:09:26,457
I had to finish it off myself.

820
01:09:26,489 --> 01:09:30,027
Mr. Turner, would you
lower your voice, please.

821
01:09:32,896 --> 01:09:35,098
Won't you join me?

822
01:09:37,167 --> 01:09:38,768
Thank you, ma'am.

823
01:09:38,801 --> 01:09:40,002
Won't get no writing done

824
01:09:40,037 --> 01:09:43,840
if you're entertainin' all mornin'.

825
01:09:43,874 --> 01:09:45,708
Well, thank you, kindly.

826
01:09:45,742 --> 01:09:48,711
You're certainly welcome.

827
01:09:57,921 --> 01:10:00,023
I'll pay for your pig.

828
01:10:00,057 --> 01:10:02,859
But it was an outlaw.

829
01:10:02,893 --> 01:10:04,861
It was practically a pet.

830
01:10:04,895 --> 01:10:07,030
You could catch it with your bare hands.

831
01:10:07,064 --> 01:10:08,899
Well, I wouldn't have had the pleasure

832
01:10:08,932 --> 01:10:10,400
of shooting it.

833
01:10:17,941 --> 01:10:18,709
Miss Rawlings,

834
01:10:18,742 --> 01:10:20,543
I didn't want to disturb you, ma'am.

835
01:10:20,577 --> 01:10:21,611
I went around and talked

836
01:10:21,645 --> 01:10:22,545
to a lot of your friends.

837
01:10:22,579 --> 01:10:23,613
Even Norton, here, assured me

838
01:10:23,647 --> 01:10:24,681
you're not the kind of woman

839
01:10:24,715 --> 01:10:27,417
that would have shot my hog.

840
01:10:27,617 --> 01:10:29,787
That is just the way I am.

841
01:10:29,819 --> 01:10:31,722
I go along quietly for a while,

842
01:10:31,754 --> 01:10:33,023
and then out of the clear blue sky,

843
01:10:33,055 --> 01:10:34,658
I don't know what happens to me,

844
01:10:34,691 --> 01:10:35,391
I just pick up a gun,

845
01:10:35,425 --> 01:10:36,927
I shoot whatever makes me angry.

846
01:10:36,960 --> 01:10:41,164
I'm so afraid one day
it just might be a person.

847
01:10:43,866 --> 01:10:46,736
I'm afraid whatever it is I owe you

848
01:10:46,769 --> 01:10:49,806
will have to wait until I'm...

849
01:10:49,839 --> 01:10:52,009
Solvent. I'm flat broke.

850
01:10:52,042 --> 01:10:55,678
My last story was rejected.

851
01:11:05,556 --> 01:11:06,388
Miss Rawlings,

852
01:11:06,422 --> 01:11:10,093
seem if I do remember that was your hog.

853
01:11:10,127 --> 01:11:12,796
Good day to you now, ma'am.

854
01:11:12,830 --> 01:11:13,763
Good day.

855
01:11:13,797 --> 01:11:14,665
See you now.

856
01:11:14,697 --> 01:11:19,937
Mr. Turner, I'd like
to have that hog back.

857
01:11:19,970 --> 01:11:20,538
Say what?

858
01:11:20,570 --> 01:11:22,572
I'd like to have that hog

859
01:11:22,605 --> 01:11:23,841
and it eat it, too, for dinner.

860
01:11:23,874 --> 01:11:26,276
Perhaps you and
Mr. Baskin would join me?

861
01:11:26,309 --> 01:11:29,547
Be a shame to waste all them ribs.

862
01:11:29,580 --> 01:11:30,280
Miss Rawlings,

863
01:11:30,312 --> 01:11:31,614
you're gonna have that hog

864
01:11:31,649 --> 01:11:34,852
before sundown, ribs and all.

865
01:11:35,184 --> 01:11:37,855
Won't we have a lovely barbecue?

866
01:11:37,887 --> 01:11:39,557
Do it proud.

867
01:11:40,690 --> 01:11:42,394
This Miss Marjorie's work time,

868
01:11:42,427 --> 01:11:44,963
you have to be goin'.

869
01:11:48,666 --> 01:11:50,033
Marjorie, I would like to read

870
01:11:50,067 --> 01:11:52,135
what you write today.

871
01:11:56,039 --> 01:11:58,075
You won't read what I write today

872
01:11:58,108 --> 01:11:58,975
or any other day.

873
01:11:59,009 --> 01:12:00,843
What I write is none
of your damn business.

874
01:12:00,877 --> 01:12:04,081
Now why don't you just get out of here?

875
01:12:06,315 --> 01:12:08,985
I think I'll do just that.

876
01:12:24,667 --> 01:12:25,968
Norton!

877
01:12:26,003 --> 01:12:27,905
I'm sorry.

878
01:12:29,939 --> 01:12:32,209
You got quite a temper, Marjorie.

879
01:12:32,241 --> 01:12:34,744
Shootin' pigs and choppin' my head off.

880
01:12:34,778 --> 01:12:36,312
I know...

881
01:12:40,316 --> 01:12:43,186
I'm scared stiff.

882
01:12:44,321 --> 01:12:47,324
I can't imagine you scared of anything.

883
01:12:51,928 --> 01:12:56,966
I'm writing a story
about Tim and his wife.

884
01:12:56,999 --> 01:12:59,336
It's called Jacob's ladder.

885
01:12:59,368 --> 01:13:03,039
It's something I care very much about.

886
01:13:03,073 --> 01:13:05,208
It wouldn't be like anybody else's work.

887
01:13:05,242 --> 01:13:07,077
It'll come straight outta me.

888
01:13:07,110 --> 01:13:09,979
Do you understand that?

889
01:13:12,282 --> 01:13:15,317
If this gets turned down,
I have to face the fact

890
01:13:15,352 --> 01:13:17,687
that I wasn't meant to be a writer.

891
01:13:17,721 --> 01:13:20,790
That sounds a little drastic, Marjorie.

892
01:13:20,824 --> 01:13:22,859
No...

893
01:13:22,893 --> 01:13:27,197
This is my world... Cross Creek.

894
01:13:28,265 --> 01:13:30,400
The people here...

895
01:13:30,432 --> 01:13:36,005
Are richer than
my imaginary governesses.

896
01:13:37,039 --> 01:13:38,374
If I can't write

897
01:13:38,408 --> 01:13:41,278
my own honest thoughts and feelings,

898
01:13:41,310 --> 01:13:43,613
then I'm no author.

899
01:13:47,317 --> 01:13:51,889
You're gonna do just fine, Marjorie.

900
01:13:58,395 --> 01:14:00,130
Believe you're holding my hand again,

901
01:14:00,163 --> 01:14:02,265
Mr. Baskin.

902
01:14:04,433 --> 01:14:07,103
Seems I am.

903
01:14:07,137 --> 01:14:10,407
I suppose you'll be insisting
on staying for supper.

904
01:14:10,439 --> 01:14:14,644
My thoughts exactly.

905
01:14:17,848 --> 01:14:21,651
Nothing's gonna happen between us.

906
01:14:35,398 --> 01:14:39,336
The Yearling was growing up.

907
01:14:39,368 --> 01:14:42,339
And so was Ellie.

908
01:14:48,144 --> 01:14:52,915
The land we toiled over
responded to our care.

909
01:14:52,950 --> 01:14:57,287
My grove was thriving.

910
01:16:15,998 --> 01:16:18,168
Thank you, Paul.

911
01:16:45,428 --> 01:16:47,330
Leroy!

912
01:16:54,972 --> 01:16:57,440
This is him! This is him!

913
01:17:00,010 --> 01:17:01,945
Leroy!

914
01:17:01,979 --> 01:17:04,915
It seemed nothing could go wrong.

915
01:17:04,948 --> 01:17:07,350
Geechee had her Leroy home,

916
01:17:07,384 --> 01:17:10,020
and I had settled into writing

917
01:17:10,052 --> 01:17:11,922
10 to 12 hours a day.

918
01:17:11,955 --> 01:17:14,223
But as time went on, I saw that Leroy

919
01:17:14,256 --> 01:17:16,894
made no effort to lend the grove work.

920
01:17:16,926 --> 01:17:20,029
He was content to languish comfortably

921
01:17:20,063 --> 01:17:21,231
into Geechee's care.

922
01:17:21,263 --> 01:17:25,302
As for me, my divorce had become final,

923
01:17:25,335 --> 01:17:28,604
and I was busy
working on Jacob's ladder.

924
01:17:28,638 --> 01:17:31,607
I sensed it was more honest and alive

925
01:17:31,641 --> 01:17:33,911
than anything I'd ever written.

926
01:17:33,944 --> 01:17:35,311
But I couldn't bring myself

927
01:17:35,345 --> 01:17:37,246
to send it to Maxwell Perkins.

928
01:17:37,279 --> 01:17:40,083
I couldn't face rejection...

929
01:17:40,116 --> 01:17:43,853
Not with Jacob's ladder.

930
01:17:55,532 --> 01:17:58,267
Put that back.

931
01:17:59,601 --> 01:18:03,272
That belong to Miss Marjorie.

932
01:18:04,574 --> 01:18:06,476
Did you hear me?

933
01:18:06,509 --> 01:18:09,046
I hear you.

934
01:18:09,079 --> 01:18:12,449
You want marmalade or molasses?

935
01:18:13,149 --> 01:18:15,617
I said, you want marmalade or molasses

936
01:18:15,652 --> 01:18:17,287
with your pancake?

937
01:18:17,319 --> 01:18:18,354
Geechee...

938
01:18:18,388 --> 01:18:22,658
I'd like to speak to Leroy alone.

939
01:18:26,129 --> 01:18:28,465
We've had frost warnings.

940
01:18:28,498 --> 01:18:30,633
Paul could use your help in the grove.

941
01:18:30,666 --> 01:18:33,035
I'll chop enough wood for you tomorrow.

942
01:18:33,070 --> 01:18:36,706
I have better things in mind
than working in the grove.

943
01:18:36,738 --> 01:18:40,176
Leroy, you have to leave.

944
01:18:40,210 --> 01:18:41,979
I suppose Geechee will
want to go with you,

945
01:18:42,012 --> 01:18:43,345
and I'll be sorry to see her go,

946
01:18:43,379 --> 01:18:46,483
but this is not going to work out.

947
01:19:16,612 --> 01:19:19,316
I packed.

948
01:19:23,385 --> 01:19:26,423
I'll be going after Leroy now.

949
01:19:29,358 --> 01:19:32,594
So, guess I'll be going.

950
01:19:40,137 --> 01:19:42,639
I got something to ask you.

951
01:19:42,671 --> 01:19:44,007
Certainly.

952
01:19:44,041 --> 01:19:47,610
You satisfied with my work around here?

953
01:19:47,644 --> 01:19:48,545
Of course I am.

954
01:19:48,578 --> 01:19:51,748
Then how come you let
me go just like that?

955
01:19:51,780 --> 01:19:54,484
I assumed you wanted to go.

956
01:19:54,517 --> 01:19:56,218
So what if I did wanted to?

957
01:19:56,253 --> 01:19:57,587
What kind of person let another person

958
01:19:57,620 --> 01:20:00,557
do something they know will hurt her?

959
01:20:02,192 --> 01:20:03,792
Geechee...

960
01:20:03,825 --> 01:20:05,394
I don't understand you,

961
01:20:05,427 --> 01:20:07,564
I don't have any right to stop you.

962
01:20:07,597 --> 01:20:09,231
You do if you care about me.

963
01:20:09,266 --> 01:20:11,000
You know what Leroy gonna do to me.

964
01:20:11,000 --> 01:20:14,770
Use me up and spend
all his time in juke joints

965
01:20:14,803 --> 01:20:19,242
drinking up my paycheck
just like before.

966
01:20:19,275 --> 01:20:21,511
I got a good life here.

967
01:20:21,543 --> 01:20:23,380
I got a better life at the creek...

968
01:20:23,413 --> 01:20:25,082
I don't want you to go.

969
01:20:25,114 --> 01:20:26,615
I thought that you knew that.

970
01:20:26,648 --> 01:20:29,485
How am I supposed to know that?

971
01:20:29,519 --> 01:20:34,223
It's easy get somebody
for cooking and sweeping.

972
01:20:34,257 --> 01:20:37,594
I think of you as a friend.

973
01:20:42,565 --> 01:20:47,604
You care about me and you
was gonna let me go away?

974
01:20:47,637 --> 01:20:49,706
It's very difficult to leave someone

975
01:20:49,739 --> 01:20:51,574
you've been with.

976
01:20:51,608 --> 01:20:54,677
Afterwards, the loneliness...

977
01:20:54,711 --> 01:20:56,813
I understand lonesome.

978
01:20:56,845 --> 01:21:00,083
My life with Leroy was lonesome.

979
01:21:00,117 --> 01:21:03,285
Probably will be again.

980
01:21:03,620 --> 01:21:06,488
But you're a woman,
and you live by yourself

981
01:21:06,522 --> 01:21:09,826
and don't let nobody
take advantage of you.

982
01:21:09,858 --> 01:21:13,663
I've been watching how you do it.

983
01:21:14,197 --> 01:21:17,334
That's what I want to be like.

984
01:21:20,269 --> 01:21:24,273
That's something I learned off of you.

985
01:21:25,542 --> 01:21:28,878
I ain't goin' on no train
with Leroy and that's final.

986
01:21:28,910 --> 01:21:32,348
He ain't never done
nothin' but wrong to me.

987
01:21:32,382 --> 01:21:35,318
Ain't nobody... nobody ever

988
01:21:35,351 --> 01:21:36,619
done for me what you done.

989
01:21:36,653 --> 01:21:42,491
Giving me decent wages
and lending me your car.

990
01:21:42,892 --> 01:21:47,664
Well, us will do fine.
Us will do better.

991
01:21:47,697 --> 01:21:52,534
I'm glad you're staying,
Geechee, I really am.

992
01:22:09,186 --> 01:22:10,085
Now that we're friends,

993
01:22:10,119 --> 01:22:12,422
I got something to tell you
you don't know.

994
01:22:12,454 --> 01:22:13,889
What is it?

995
01:22:13,922 --> 01:22:16,459
On paper, you might be real smart,

996
01:22:16,493 --> 01:22:20,162
but in real life,
you got a lot to learn,

997
01:22:20,197 --> 01:22:21,663
a whole lot.

998
01:22:22,231 --> 01:22:22,999
Well, is that so?

999
01:22:23,032 --> 01:22:25,468
You can't go letting people you like

1000
01:22:25,502 --> 01:22:26,902
walk out on you.

1001
01:22:26,936 --> 01:22:29,872
You almost lost me.

1002
01:22:29,905 --> 01:22:33,676
You're gonna lose Mr. Norton, too.

1003
01:22:38,914 --> 01:22:41,718
I don't wish to discuss it.

1004
01:22:41,751 --> 01:22:44,287
I don't know why
I stay here with you for,

1005
01:22:44,321 --> 01:22:46,323
you old bad-tempered woman!

1006
01:22:46,356 --> 01:22:48,258
Just crazy, I guess.

1007
01:22:48,291 --> 01:22:50,260
I guess so.

1008
01:23:15,617 --> 01:23:17,419
Bubba!

1009
01:23:17,454 --> 01:23:19,221
Hey, hey!

1010
01:23:37,339 --> 01:23:39,908
* somebody stole my old coon dog away *

1011
01:23:39,942 --> 01:23:40,877
* should bring him back

1012
01:23:40,909 --> 01:23:42,779
* he'll throw them
big hogs over the fence *

1013
01:23:42,812 --> 01:23:45,915
* little ones through the cracks *

1014
01:23:51,620 --> 01:23:53,390
* whoa, trouble, trouble, trouble *

1015
01:23:53,423 --> 01:23:55,591
* all I've had it all my days *

1016
01:23:55,624 --> 01:23:57,294
* just looks like old trouble *

1017
01:23:57,327 --> 01:24:00,596
* gonna follow me to my grave *

1018
01:24:06,369 --> 01:24:07,603
all right!

1019
01:24:10,440 --> 01:24:12,441
Thank you for comin', now.

1020
01:24:12,475 --> 01:24:14,643
I brought you a cake.

1021
01:24:14,676 --> 01:24:15,778
Thanks! Bubba!

1022
01:24:15,812 --> 01:24:18,714
She baked me a cake!

1023
01:24:18,914 --> 01:24:21,751
You know, she was hoping
that you were gonna

1024
01:24:21,783 --> 01:24:22,884
bake her a birthday cake.

1025
01:24:22,918 --> 01:24:25,988
I was hoping you'd make it
a bourbon cake.

1026
01:24:26,021 --> 01:24:28,724
It's a chocolate layer cake.

1027
01:24:28,758 --> 01:24:33,262
I guess we'll have to sample
my home brew, then.

1028
01:24:34,530 --> 01:24:38,600
Would you like a taste? Here we go.

1029
01:24:38,835 --> 01:24:40,602
There's one for Miss Rawlings.

1030
01:24:40,637 --> 01:24:41,838
I know you have to save yourself

1031
01:24:41,871 --> 01:24:43,473
for your writing, Marjorie,

1032
01:24:43,505 --> 01:24:45,775
so we, uh, we got you a pitcher

1033
01:24:45,808 --> 01:24:47,676
of sassafras and tea over there.

1034
01:24:47,709 --> 01:24:50,579
Well, this will do me fine, thank you.

1035
01:24:50,612 --> 01:24:52,382
Hold it, Lilly.

1036
01:24:52,415 --> 01:24:53,316
Thank you, Lilly.

1037
01:24:53,350 --> 01:24:54,917
Norton, this one's for you.

1038
01:24:54,951 --> 01:24:56,786
Easy, Marsh.

1039
01:24:56,819 --> 01:24:59,055
I'd like to propose this toast

1040
01:24:59,087 --> 01:25:00,756
to my darling daughter Ellie

1041
01:25:00,790 --> 01:25:02,023
on her 14th birthday.

1042
01:25:02,058 --> 01:25:03,926
Here's to you, sugar.

1043
01:25:03,960 --> 01:25:05,862
Happy Birthday, Ellie.

1044
01:25:05,895 --> 01:25:07,095
Happy Birthday.

1045
01:25:07,128 --> 01:25:08,965
Bubba?

1046
01:25:08,998 --> 01:25:09,799
Hmm?

1047
01:25:09,832 --> 01:25:13,835
Could I cut the first piece for Flag?

1048
01:25:17,840 --> 01:25:20,342
It's your birthday, sweetheart.

1049
01:25:20,377 --> 01:25:22,578
You go right ahead.

1050
01:25:25,447 --> 01:25:29,619
Paul! Paul, play something
for us, will you?

1051
01:25:59,616 --> 01:26:01,851
You were given the perfect day

1052
01:26:01,884 --> 01:26:03,151
to celebrate on.

1053
01:26:03,184 --> 01:26:05,354
Thanks.

1054
01:26:26,943 --> 01:26:29,378
Flag!

1055
01:26:29,811 --> 01:26:33,014
Flag! Flag!

1056
01:26:36,453 --> 01:26:39,989
Flag! Please!

1057
01:26:45,595 --> 01:26:48,064
Flag!

1058
01:26:49,865 --> 01:26:52,801
Flag!

1059
01:26:57,574 --> 01:26:59,942
Preston, help me!

1060
01:27:01,010 --> 01:27:02,679
Flag!

1061
01:27:02,711 --> 01:27:06,182
Flag, stop! Flag!

1062
01:27:07,917 --> 01:27:10,419
Please, flag, stop!

1063
01:27:13,155 --> 01:27:15,492
Flag, no!

1064
01:27:49,758 --> 01:27:51,093
My husband is a gentleman.

1065
01:27:51,127 --> 01:27:55,732
Whatever he does wrong, he'll set right.

1066
01:27:58,968 --> 01:28:01,571
You yearned to have a pet of your own.

1067
01:28:01,604 --> 01:28:04,906
I didn't have the heart to deny you.

1068
01:28:05,575 --> 01:28:08,144
You've done an injustice to Flag.

1069
01:28:08,177 --> 01:28:10,079
He's not human.

1070
01:28:10,112 --> 01:28:13,182
He's not a critter.

1071
01:28:15,117 --> 01:28:16,952
He belongs in the woods.

1072
01:28:16,986 --> 01:28:19,822
Could have crippled him, darling.

1073
01:28:20,021 --> 01:28:22,758
He wouldn't know how to survive.

1074
01:28:23,124 --> 01:28:26,495
I promise he won't get out again.

1075
01:28:27,063 --> 01:28:30,766
You can't chain him up forever.

1076
01:28:30,800 --> 01:28:34,003
Well, I'll walk him
after my chores are done.

1077
01:28:34,036 --> 01:28:36,739
Look, Bubba, he's being real good now.

1078
01:28:36,772 --> 01:28:39,508
He didn't mean any harm.

1079
01:28:40,242 --> 01:28:42,143
Marjorie.

1080
01:28:42,178 --> 01:28:45,814
Please, Bubba, don't
make me give him up.

1081
01:28:47,216 --> 01:28:50,318
I don't think he's giving me any choice.

1082
01:28:50,351 --> 01:28:51,853
Marsh...

1083
01:28:51,887 --> 01:28:54,223
Maybe if the pen was a little stronger.

1084
01:28:54,255 --> 01:28:58,795
He'd go right through it
or he'd go right over it.

1085
01:29:00,162 --> 01:29:02,164
Marsh, please.

1086
01:29:02,198 --> 01:29:04,866
Can't we try?

1087
01:29:11,540 --> 01:29:15,310
I'll think about it.

1088
01:29:15,678 --> 01:29:17,246
But I'm not making you a promise,

1089
01:29:17,278 --> 01:29:19,782
do you understand me?

1090
01:29:19,815 --> 01:29:22,684
Yes, sir.

1091
01:29:24,854 --> 01:29:27,689
I'll think about it.

1092
01:29:52,849 --> 01:29:54,950
Come on, Ellie.

1093
01:29:56,017 --> 01:29:58,254
It's gonna be all right.

1094
01:30:01,022 --> 01:30:02,824
Out here, you just can't afford

1095
01:30:02,859 --> 01:30:04,193
to have no softness in you.

1096
01:30:04,226 --> 01:30:07,129
Daily life don't allow it.

1097
01:30:10,733 --> 01:30:13,235
You know Ellie's special to me,

1098
01:30:13,269 --> 01:30:15,938
don't you?

1099
01:30:15,972 --> 01:30:17,205
She always has been.

1100
01:30:17,239 --> 01:30:19,909
She's the one that stays up at night

1101
01:30:19,942 --> 01:30:21,309
waitin' for me.

1102
01:30:21,343 --> 01:30:22,778
She calls me Bubba.

1103
01:30:22,811 --> 01:30:24,279
If anything happened to that girl,

1104
01:30:24,312 --> 01:30:25,881
I don't think I could live.

1105
01:30:25,915 --> 01:30:27,016
That's just the way it is.

1106
01:30:27,048 --> 01:30:28,249
That's how much I care.

1107
01:30:28,284 --> 01:30:29,951
May not make much sense,

1108
01:30:29,986 --> 01:30:31,120
that's the way it is.

1109
01:30:31,153 --> 01:30:34,089
- I understand that.
- Do you?

1110
01:30:37,458 --> 01:30:40,762
Why do you insist on...

1111
01:30:40,797 --> 01:30:44,200
prolonging the problem?

1112
01:30:45,301 --> 01:30:46,803
She loves that animal.

1113
01:30:46,836 --> 01:30:48,738
It's gonna have to be shot.

1114
01:30:48,771 --> 01:30:49,470
Why?

1115
01:30:49,504 --> 01:30:50,773
You see, it's almost full grown.

1116
01:30:50,807 --> 01:30:52,408
It's not only going to destroy my crops,

1117
01:30:52,440 --> 01:30:53,910
it's gonna get yours,

1118
01:30:53,942 --> 01:30:55,277
it's gonna get everybody's

1119
01:30:55,311 --> 01:30:56,878
up and down this creek.

1120
01:30:56,913 --> 01:31:00,149
Not if that new fence holds.

1121
01:31:01,582 --> 01:31:04,854
What if it don't, Miss Marjorie?

1122
01:31:07,055 --> 01:31:10,793
It's Ellie's last days
of childhood, Marsh.

1123
01:31:11,660 --> 01:31:15,698
It'll be a stronger fence.

1124
01:31:15,732 --> 01:31:19,201
I hope so.

1125
01:31:20,268 --> 01:31:22,938
Oh, Lordy.

1126
01:31:23,239 --> 01:31:24,907
We held our breaths,

1127
01:31:24,940 --> 01:31:27,977
praying that the fence
would be strong enough.

1128
01:31:28,009 --> 01:31:30,179
Days passed, and Ellie's deer

1129
01:31:30,212 --> 01:31:33,415
stayed within the confines of the pen.

1130
01:31:33,448 --> 01:31:36,052
Jacob's ladder was finished,

1131
01:31:36,084 --> 01:31:39,722
but I was afraid to let
Max Perkins see it

1132
01:31:39,756 --> 01:31:43,059
until I felt it was perfect.

1133
01:32:05,947 --> 01:32:07,884
Marjorie?

1134
01:32:09,986 --> 01:32:12,822
This is a good story.

1135
01:32:22,131 --> 01:32:25,734
Max will like it, Marjorie.

1136
01:32:29,137 --> 01:32:31,908
I might as well bring a suitcase over,

1137
01:32:31,940 --> 01:32:35,376
I spend so much time out here.

1138
01:32:38,146 --> 01:32:41,050
That's unnecessary.

1139
01:32:41,950 --> 01:32:43,886
Marjorie...

1140
01:32:45,021 --> 01:32:47,989
Ahem, Marjorie.

1141
01:32:50,225 --> 01:32:53,995
I'm trying to propose.

1142
01:33:01,537 --> 01:33:03,973
I don't want to get married.

1143
01:33:04,005 --> 01:33:05,908
I eat with you,

1144
01:33:05,942 --> 01:33:07,242
I sleep with you,

1145
01:33:07,276 --> 01:33:09,144
I worry over your writing with you.

1146
01:33:09,177 --> 01:33:10,880
If that's not being married,

1147
01:33:10,913 --> 01:33:11,780
I don't know what is.

1148
01:33:11,780 --> 01:33:15,583
I just haven't time for marriage.

1149
01:33:15,617 --> 01:33:17,886
You have time for Paul

1150
01:33:17,920 --> 01:33:20,189
and Ellie and Geechee.

1151
01:33:20,221 --> 01:33:23,959
Well, that's different. They're friends.

1152
01:33:24,861 --> 01:33:26,394
You'd want more of me,

1153
01:33:26,427 --> 01:33:28,330
and I wouldn't be able
to give it to you.

1154
01:33:28,364 --> 01:33:32,200
That's a damn lousy excuse.

1155
01:33:35,604 --> 01:33:37,572
Why isn't what we have

1156
01:33:37,606 --> 01:33:40,109
good enough for you?

1157
01:33:40,508 --> 01:33:43,078
It's not.

1158
01:33:45,213 --> 01:33:47,950
It'll have to be.

1159
01:33:49,184 --> 01:33:51,152
Marjorie, you're so busy writing

1160
01:33:51,186 --> 01:33:52,488
and living other people's lives,

1161
01:33:52,521 --> 01:33:54,590
that you're cutting your own out.

1162
01:33:54,622 --> 01:33:58,226
And you can't hide from feelings.

1163
01:34:01,262 --> 01:34:04,366
I'm not in love with you.

1164
01:34:10,571 --> 01:34:13,442
I don't believe that.

1165
01:34:35,664 --> 01:34:38,566
I deliberately turned away from Norton,

1166
01:34:38,600 --> 01:34:41,002
for I believed that I couldn't be

1167
01:34:41,037 --> 01:34:42,303
a wife and a writer.

1168
01:34:42,337 --> 01:34:46,674
My relationship with Charles
had proved that to me.

1169
01:34:46,707 --> 01:34:49,511
I chose to isolate myself,

1170
01:34:49,545 --> 01:34:53,114
and I used my work as a refuge.

1171
01:35:19,308 --> 01:35:21,442
Max?

1172
01:35:22,378 --> 01:35:24,679
Max Perkins?

1173
01:35:25,214 --> 01:35:29,684
What in the world are you doing here?

1174
01:35:29,718 --> 01:35:31,420
Oh! Ha!

1175
01:35:31,453 --> 01:35:35,190
Oh, uh, something
to prod the muses with.

1176
01:35:35,224 --> 01:35:36,025
Thank you.

1177
01:35:36,057 --> 01:35:38,359
Well, Mr. Baskin here was kind enough

1178
01:35:38,393 --> 01:35:39,228
to offer me a lift.

1179
01:35:39,260 --> 01:35:41,998
He suggested that I come out right away.

1180
01:35:42,031 --> 01:35:44,500
I'm sure he did.

1181
01:35:44,533 --> 01:35:46,301
I hope I'm not intruding.

1182
01:35:46,334 --> 01:35:47,302
No.

1183
01:35:47,335 --> 01:35:50,039
I'm just... Surprised to see you.

1184
01:35:50,072 --> 01:35:53,075
I've just been on a visit
with Ernest in Key West,

1185
01:35:53,109 --> 01:35:55,343
and I just dropped by
to see how you were.

1186
01:35:55,376 --> 01:35:56,445
Well, you couldn't call,

1187
01:35:56,478 --> 01:35:59,048
because she doesn't have a phone.

1188
01:36:00,482 --> 01:36:03,585
You already have
an open bottle, Marjorie.

1189
01:36:03,619 --> 01:36:05,721
Max drinks only the best.

1190
01:36:05,753 --> 01:36:07,188
Well, we can start on that one

1191
01:36:07,223 --> 01:36:09,725
and then finish yours up later on.

1192
01:36:09,757 --> 01:36:11,460
Ah.

1193
01:36:11,493 --> 01:36:11,960
Mmm.

1194
01:36:11,960 --> 01:36:15,597
You haven't written
to me lately, Marjorie.

1195
01:36:17,765 --> 01:36:22,371
I don't think my writing interests you.

1196
01:36:24,773 --> 01:36:28,510
I-I'll get some glasses.

1197
01:36:33,349 --> 01:36:34,449
Bit chilly.

1198
01:36:34,483 --> 01:36:39,221
Your last letter didn't go down so well.

1199
01:36:39,387 --> 01:36:43,159
Oh, dear, not another Gothic, hmm?

1200
01:36:43,525 --> 01:36:45,594
So what is it this time, Marjorie?

1201
01:36:45,627 --> 01:36:47,629
Another governess packed off to Wales,

1202
01:36:47,663 --> 01:36:50,431
destitute and filled with foreboding?

1203
01:36:50,465 --> 01:36:51,500
You've made it clear

1204
01:36:51,533 --> 01:36:54,469
that you don't like my Gothics, Max.

1205
01:36:54,503 --> 01:36:56,672
Correct.

1206
01:36:58,373 --> 01:37:00,308
I've often wondered why you bother

1207
01:37:00,341 --> 01:37:01,710
wasting your precious time

1208
01:37:01,742 --> 01:37:03,478
on such an untalented novelist.

1209
01:37:03,512 --> 01:37:05,647
I had hoped that anyone who is

1210
01:37:05,681 --> 01:37:07,649
as desperate to write as you were,
will eventually...

1211
01:37:07,683 --> 01:37:10,219
Damn it, Max Perkins, you're a coward!

1212
01:37:10,251 --> 01:37:14,223
You didn't dare tell me the truth.

1213
01:37:15,823 --> 01:37:18,126
Well, I must admit,

1214
01:37:18,160 --> 01:37:19,728
I did stop.

1215
01:37:19,760 --> 01:37:22,831
You can be most formidable, Marjorie.

1216
01:37:22,864 --> 01:37:25,534
You let me believe I had talent.

1217
01:37:25,566 --> 01:37:29,470
You may be one of the most
talented writers

1218
01:37:29,504 --> 01:37:33,041
I've had the pleasure of working with.

1219
01:37:33,174 --> 01:37:36,645
I have here some of your finest work...

1220
01:37:36,677 --> 01:37:38,179
your letters.

1221
01:37:38,214 --> 01:37:41,283
The letters I kept looking forward to.

1222
01:37:41,316 --> 01:37:44,320
And not because
I missed your good company,

1223
01:37:44,352 --> 01:37:49,091
but because when you write
about your life here,

1224
01:37:49,125 --> 01:37:53,394
that's when your writing's
at its best, Marjorie.

1225
01:37:53,861 --> 01:37:58,366
My sense told that some time ago.

1226
01:38:05,806 --> 01:38:08,177
Thank you.

1227
01:38:18,154 --> 01:38:20,489
Marjorie, he'll like it.

1228
01:38:20,521 --> 01:38:23,291
It's a good story.

1229
01:38:26,227 --> 01:38:29,331
You never did even get to the end.

1230
01:38:29,364 --> 01:38:31,333
You never gave me the chance.

1231
01:38:39,374 --> 01:38:40,875
Smells good.

1232
01:38:40,909 --> 01:38:44,479
Cooking is Marjorie's one vanity.

1233
01:38:44,512 --> 01:38:45,814
Max.

1234
01:38:45,846 --> 01:38:48,250
Thank you, Marjorie.

1235
01:39:08,503 --> 01:39:09,805
I know that...

1236
01:39:09,838 --> 01:39:11,640
I gave it to you too soon.

1237
01:39:11,673 --> 01:39:15,143
It wasn't ready for you to read yet.

1238
01:39:17,846 --> 01:39:20,248
Well, dear,

1239
01:39:20,281 --> 01:39:21,249
I liked it,

1240
01:39:21,282 --> 01:39:23,818
and I'm gonna publish it.

1241
01:39:36,631 --> 01:39:39,735
Does $700 seem fair to you?

1242
01:39:45,341 --> 01:39:47,709
Yes.

1243
01:39:48,444 --> 01:39:53,181
Yes, Mr. Perkins,
that sounds fine to me.

1244
01:39:59,987 --> 01:40:02,724
Miss Rawlings!

1245
01:40:03,558 --> 01:40:05,993
Miss Ra... Miss Rawlings!

1246
01:40:06,026 --> 01:40:09,831
You have to help me! Flag escaped.

1247
01:40:23,044 --> 01:40:24,845
Go home, Marjorie.

1248
01:40:24,879 --> 01:40:26,981
- Marsh...
- Go home, please.

1249
01:40:27,015 --> 01:40:29,684
I feel responsible for this.

1250
01:40:29,718 --> 01:40:30,985
No, it's this girl

1251
01:40:31,019 --> 01:40:32,853
that has to be responsible now,

1252
01:40:32,888 --> 01:40:34,622
not you.

1253
01:40:35,556 --> 01:40:37,259
Darling...

1254
01:40:37,293 --> 01:40:39,461
We had ourselves a bargain.

1255
01:40:39,494 --> 01:40:42,697
Now, you gotta do what's right.

1256
01:40:43,832 --> 01:40:45,600
Darling, listen to me.

1257
01:40:45,633 --> 01:40:47,002
A family can't starve

1258
01:40:47,034 --> 01:40:49,338
over the love of an animal.

1259
01:40:49,371 --> 01:40:51,273
Now take it.

1260
01:40:51,307 --> 01:40:54,876
I ain't doin' it, Bubba.
You can't make me.

1261
01:40:54,910 --> 01:40:56,477
Take it.

1262
01:40:56,512 --> 01:40:58,347
Bubba, please, no!

1263
01:40:58,380 --> 01:41:00,849
Bubba, no! Stop it, Bubba!

1264
01:41:00,882 --> 01:41:02,483
No, please, I promise!

1265
01:41:02,518 --> 01:41:06,522
I'll mend the fence,
and I'll grow some new crops.

1266
01:41:06,554 --> 01:41:07,356
Please, Bubba!

1267
01:41:07,389 --> 01:41:09,657
I'll make it up to you. Bubba, please!

1268
01:41:09,690 --> 01:41:10,859
Listen to me!

1269
01:41:10,892 --> 01:41:12,059
Please, Bubba!

1270
01:41:12,092 --> 01:41:14,396
Bubba, please! Please!

1271
01:41:14,429 --> 01:41:17,466
Bubba!

1272
01:41:17,498 --> 01:41:19,535
Stop him!

1273
01:41:19,567 --> 01:41:20,701
Ellie...

1274
01:41:20,736 --> 01:41:22,470
He'll listen to you!

1275
01:41:22,504 --> 01:41:23,572
I can't stop him.

1276
01:41:23,605 --> 01:41:25,641
He hates Flag, he always has.

1277
01:41:25,674 --> 01:41:28,609
That's my deer and
he ain't right to do that.

1278
01:41:30,779 --> 01:41:32,948
Bubba, no!

1279
01:41:36,484 --> 01:41:40,322
Go back to the house now!

1280
01:41:41,556 --> 01:41:42,658
Go back to the house!

1281
01:41:42,690 --> 01:41:46,895
I hate you! I hate you so much!

1282
01:41:46,928 --> 01:41:49,365
Fight me, I hate you! Fight me!

1283
01:41:49,398 --> 01:41:53,469
I hate you so much! Fight me! Fight me!

1284
01:41:53,502 --> 01:41:55,804
Aah! Fight me! I hate you!

1285
01:41:55,837 --> 01:41:57,772
I'll always hate you!

1286
01:43:14,782 --> 01:43:17,018
Not bad.

1287
01:43:34,535 --> 01:43:35,904
Ahh.

1288
01:43:40,040 --> 01:43:41,777
Uh-oh!

1289
01:43:54,189 --> 01:43:55,890
Marsh!

1290
01:43:55,924 --> 01:43:58,426
Marsh!

1291
01:43:59,226 --> 01:44:01,963
Ellie!

1292
01:44:12,040 --> 01:44:15,010
Ellie!

1293
01:44:18,546 --> 01:44:21,215
Hey, Ellie!

1294
01:44:40,234 --> 01:44:43,103
Hey, Ellie?

1295
01:45:01,056 --> 01:45:02,957
Hey, Ellie?

1296
01:45:19,740 --> 01:45:22,243
She'll come home.

1297
01:45:22,710 --> 01:45:25,513
Don't make no difference.

1298
01:45:25,814 --> 01:45:29,017
It'll never be the same again.

1299
01:45:32,152 --> 01:45:34,623
Ah.

1300
01:45:44,865 --> 01:45:46,034
Marsh?

1301
01:45:46,067 --> 01:45:48,169
It's me, the Sheriff.

1302
01:45:48,203 --> 01:45:50,771
How you doin', Jake?

1303
01:45:50,806 --> 01:45:53,074
Put down that gun.

1304
01:45:53,941 --> 01:45:56,911
You want it? It's yours.

1305
01:46:02,850 --> 01:46:05,754
The Sheriff shot,

1306
01:46:05,786 --> 01:46:07,055
and Marsh fell.

1307
01:46:07,088 --> 01:46:11,992
And it was the end
of glamour at Cross Creek.

1308
01:46:14,262 --> 01:46:16,330
And the only person who knows,

1309
01:46:16,363 --> 01:46:19,267
who understands that when Marsh Turner

1310
01:46:19,299 --> 01:46:21,101
spoke to the Sheriff,

1311
01:46:21,136 --> 01:46:23,003
it was without menace.

1312
01:46:23,038 --> 01:46:25,140
I'm sure he was offering the Sheriff

1313
01:46:25,172 --> 01:46:26,942
the offending gun,

1314
01:46:26,975 --> 01:46:29,343
exactly as he once offered me

1315
01:46:29,377 --> 01:46:32,648
his trespassing hogs.

1316
01:47:11,753 --> 01:47:12,620
Ellie...

1317
01:47:12,620 --> 01:47:15,857
You don't belong here.

1318
01:47:15,890 --> 01:47:19,327
I wish you never came to Cross Creek.

1319
01:47:19,359 --> 01:47:22,130
You're not one of us.

1320
01:47:22,162 --> 01:47:23,965
Why don't you take your stories

1321
01:47:23,999 --> 01:47:25,733
and leave us be?

1322
01:47:25,766 --> 01:47:29,036
Cross Creek ain't for you.

1323
01:48:11,780 --> 01:48:15,383
I left the creek.

1324
01:48:18,186 --> 01:48:20,055
I left the grove.

1325
01:48:20,088 --> 01:48:22,456
Suddenly.

1326
01:48:22,490 --> 01:48:25,260
And with nothing.

1327
01:51:31,612 --> 01:51:34,415
Miss!

1328
01:51:34,449 --> 01:51:36,316
Miss Rawlings!

1329
01:52:37,644 --> 01:52:38,546
We'll beat it.

1330
01:52:38,578 --> 01:52:40,947
I worked all year
on nursing those oranges.

1331
01:52:40,980 --> 01:52:42,282
I ain't gonna let a freeze have them.

1332
01:52:42,317 --> 01:52:44,619
Don't you worry.

1333
01:53:08,308 --> 01:53:10,210
Hang in there.

1334
01:53:10,245 --> 01:53:11,479
Ask him what's to be done.

1335
01:53:11,512 --> 01:53:12,980
Come on up in here.

1336
01:53:12,980 --> 01:53:14,082
Come here.

1337
01:53:14,115 --> 01:53:16,351
Come on, y'all.

1338
01:53:20,388 --> 01:53:22,723
Take on off.

1339
01:53:40,474 --> 01:53:43,410
I should have come sooner.

1340
01:53:43,843 --> 01:53:46,681
Good friends shouldn't keep apart.

1341
01:54:38,198 --> 01:54:39,100
And that little Mary

1342
01:54:39,134 --> 01:54:39,800
was keeping up with us,

1343
01:54:39,833 --> 01:54:42,170
just sloshing through the mud.

1344
01:54:42,202 --> 01:54:43,837
One time, she was right here

1345
01:54:43,871 --> 01:54:44,672
and there was her shoes

1346
01:54:44,704 --> 01:54:46,873
about 10 feet back, stuck in the mud.

1347
01:54:56,816 --> 01:54:58,518
Would you like a cup of coffee?

1348
01:54:58,552 --> 01:55:02,857
That'd hit the spot, thank you.

1349
01:55:03,490 --> 01:55:05,626
I want to thank you for your help.

1350
01:55:05,660 --> 01:55:07,327
I just happened to be

1351
01:55:07,362 --> 01:55:09,197
passing through the neighborhood.

1352
01:55:09,230 --> 01:55:11,599
At 5:30 in the morning?

1353
01:55:11,632 --> 01:55:13,100
At 5:30 in the morning.

1354
01:55:13,100 --> 01:55:17,438
I heard you was doin' poorly.

1355
01:55:17,472 --> 01:55:18,173
Yeah?

1356
01:55:18,205 --> 01:55:22,276
Hmm. Pining away for an old Beau.

1357
01:55:23,844 --> 01:55:27,647
I'm doing extremely well.

1358
01:55:31,251 --> 01:55:34,289
So I see.

1359
01:55:38,958 --> 01:55:40,628
Listen, would you like...

1360
01:55:40,662 --> 01:55:42,998
Yes.

1361
01:55:48,269 --> 01:55:50,905
Get married?

1362
01:55:57,778 --> 01:55:59,379
Just like I figured.

1363
01:55:59,414 --> 01:56:02,449
You certainly are sure of yourself.

1364
01:56:04,652 --> 01:56:07,355
You didn't miss me at all?

1365
01:56:07,387 --> 01:56:09,623
Not a bit, Mr. Baskin.

1366
01:56:09,657 --> 01:56:11,759
Not a bit.

1367
01:56:13,160 --> 01:56:17,732
I had become a part of Cross Creek.

1368
01:56:17,764 --> 01:56:20,267
I was more than a writer.

1369
01:56:20,301 --> 01:56:23,437
I was a wife, a friend,

1370
01:56:23,471 --> 01:56:26,306
a part of the earth.

1371
01:56:26,340 --> 01:56:29,643
Who owns Cross Creek?

1372
01:56:29,910 --> 01:56:33,880
The earth may be farmed, not bought.

1373
01:56:33,914 --> 01:56:36,417
May be used, not owned.

1374
01:56:36,450 --> 01:56:41,256
It gives itself in response
to love and tenderness,

1375
01:56:41,289 --> 01:56:44,759
offers its seasonal
flowering and fruiting.

1376
01:56:44,792 --> 01:56:49,697
Cross Creek belongs
to the wind and the rain,

1377
01:56:49,730 --> 01:56:52,267
to the sun and seasons,

1378
01:56:52,300 --> 01:56:55,703
to the cosmic secrecy of seed...

1379
01:56:55,736 --> 01:57:00,574
And beyond all, to time.

1380
01:58:32,111 --> 01:58:40,999
Manual corrected, resynched,
spell checked by H@w-to-kiLL.