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| Let's go down in the cellar. |
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| Oh, Idk, We never go down in the cellar any more. |
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We never did go down in the cellar that i remember. i could rest easy the balance of my life if i never went down in the cellar.
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| Supposing i said it meant a whole lot to me |
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| what's come over you? its cold down there and there is absolutely nothing to do |
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| we could pick up pieces of coal. we could get up some kind of a game with pieces of coal |
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| i dont want to. anyway im reading |
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| Listen, i wish youd come down in the cellar with me. you can read down there, as far as that goes |
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| there isnt a good enough light down there, and anyway, im not going to go down in the cellar. you may as well make up your mind to that |
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| gee whiz! other peoples wives go down in the cellar. why is it you never want to do anything together? i come home worn out from the office and you wont even go down in the cellar with me. god knows it isnt very far it isnt as if i was asking to go to the movies or some place |
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| you probably want to get me down there to bury me |
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| all right. i might as well tell you the truth. i want to get rid of you so i can marry my stenographer. is there anything especially wrong about that? people do it every day. love is something you cant control. |
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| weve been all over that. im not going to go all over that again. i suppose this filing perosn put you up to it. |
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| you neednt get sarcastic. miss daleys my secretary. i have plenty of people to file without having her file. she doesnt know anything about this. she isnt in on it. i was going to tell her you had gone to visit some frinds and fell over a cliff. she wants me to get a divorce. |
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| thats a laugh. you may bury me, but youll never get a divorce. |
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| i told her that, i mean - i told her id never get a divorce |
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| oh you probably told her about burying me too |
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| thats not true. thats between you and me. i was never going to tell a soul |
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| youd blab it to the whole world; dont tell me. i know you |
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| i wish you were buried now and it was all over with |
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| dont you suppose youd get caught you crazy thing? they always get caught. why dont you go to bed? youre just getting yourself all worked up over nothing. |
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| im not going to bed. im going to bury you in the cellar. ive got my mind made up to it. i dont know how i could make it any plainer |
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| listen, will you be satisfied and shut up if i go down in the cellar? can i have a little peace if i go down in the cellar? will you let me alone then? |
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| yes but you spoil it by taking that attitude |
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| sure sure i always spoil everything. have you got an envelope? |
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| what do you want an envelope for? |
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| i want to mark my place in this book |
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| why? youre not going to have a chance to finish it. you go first |
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| all right, you lead the way. you would think of this at this time of year! any other husband would have buried his wife in the summer |
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| you cant arrange these things just whenever you want to. i didnt fall in love with this girl till late fall |
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| mercy, but its cold down here, and can never find the light. what have you got there? |
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| i was going to hit you over the head with this shovel |
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| you were, huh? well, get that out of your mind. do you want to leave a great big clue right here in the middle of everything where the first detective that comes snooping around will find it? go out in the street and find some piece of iron or something |
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| like what, for instance? its just like you to think theres always a piece of iron lying around in the streets. |
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| well, let me see now. oh heres the perfect thing. its what they call a heavy blunt instrument |
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| that isnt ours. we dont have a monkey wrench like that in this house |
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| no. thats what im trying to tell you. the plumber left this last week after he fixed the sink in the kitchen. and it doesnt belong to either one of us. |
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| what it doing down here? why didnt you give it back to him? didnt he find out he had left it here? |
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| well, you see it was this way. he did call up about it, but i told him he hadnt left it here. so then i brought it down to the cellar. |
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| where did you get that glove |
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| oh, i had stuck it in my pocket, absentmindedly. i guess i was thinking about something else. |
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| are you going to give it to me? thats why you were so willing to come down here. hey! whos been digging here in this corner? |
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| well, if i were a cop, id want to know whose fingerprints were on that shovel. |
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| where are you going dear? |
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| first im going up to call the plumber and tell him youve got his wrench. and then - lets go to bed |
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