Steamboat Round the Bend (1935)

Anne Shirley: Fleety Belle

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Quotes 

• Doctor John Pearly : [Fleety gives Doc a kiss]  Oh! Now, look, say, don't do that. There ain't no thin' run you on the sandbar quicker than a lot of huggin' and kissin'.

  Fleety Belle : I didn't mean to.

  Doctor John Pearly : You didn't mean to? Well, that's a fine thing to say. lf you didn't mean to, well maybe I'd better give it back.

  [kisses Fleety] 

  Doctor John Pearly : Too much foolishness goin' on around here.

• Doctor John Pearly : Look out for this bend. That's it. Hold it steady.

  Fleety Belle : Steamboat round the bend!

  Doctor John Pearly : Hey, that's the river talk! Steamboat round the bend. Steamboat round the bend!

• Fleety Belle : I feel like the Lord's just shamin' me for having hated you so.

  Doctor John Pearly : Yeah - Don't have to -

  [clears throat] 

  Doctor John Pearly : worry about - The Lord's a lot broad-minded than you think he is anyhow.

• Fleety Belle : Go ahead and beat me! That's all I ever knowed.

• Fleety Belle : Ain't no sin runnin' off with the man you love and ain't nobody gonna make me say it is.

• Doctor John Pearly : Duke's gonna have two sweethearts now.

  Fleety Belle : Two?

  Doctor John Pearly : Yeah. Gonna have two. You - and the Claremore Queen.

• Duke : A fella in here used to work in a tattoo parlor in Perryville, and, well, I kind of been gettin' some tattooin' done myself.

  Fleety Belle : I wished I could see it.