Vera Miles: Hallie Stoddard
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Quotes
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Dutton Peabody : Hallie, please! The proprieties concerning the cutlery. Now, how many times have I told you, the fork goes to the left of the plate, and the knife goes...
Hallie : What's the matter with you? You superstitious or something?
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Hallie : One steak for Mr. Peabody, with fixins'.
Nora Ericson : Steak, beans, potatoes...
Peter Ericson : And a deep dish apple pie.
Nora Ericson : Someday he order something different and we all faint dead away.
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Hallie : Rance, do you think I could... I mean, grown up and all... do you think I could learn to read?
Ransom Stoddard : Why, sure you can, Hallie. Why, there's nothing to it. It'd be... it'd be easy. Can you learn how to read? Why, I can... I can teach you. A smart girl like you? Of course you can learn how to read. Now, do you want to try?
Hallie : It's awful worrisome not knowing how. I know the Good Book from preacher talk; but it'd be a soul comfort if I could read the words myself.
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Dutton Peabody : [Addressing Ransom Stoddard after Tom Doniphon tells Stoddard to get a gun or leave town] Personally I'd hate to see you go... you're *news* Mr. Stoddard, and you've *been* news ever since you hit this town!
[Reading Stoddard's sign]
Dutton Peabody : 'Ransom Stoddard, Attorney at Law'... aww, I didn't mean to hurt your feelings out there. Hey, I'll tell you what! You decide to stick around and uh, I'll let you hang this thing outside the newspaper office, rent free, for as long as it lasts!
Hallie : No! No! The first time Liberty Valance rides into town he'll shoot it to pieces, and the whole newspaper office with it!
Tom Doniphon : How 'bout that, Mr. Peabody?
Dutton Peabody : Well, uh...
[speaks with nervous laughter throughout]
Dutton Peabody : that'd be news!
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Hallie : He never finished that extra room, did he?
Link Appleyard : No... well, you know all about that.
