Wagon Train (TV Series)
The Jess MacAbee Story (1959)
Marlene Willis: Sally Belle MacAbee
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Quotes
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Belle MacAbee : [Lesson time] You are just entering Judge Beauregarde's ballroom. A hundred violins are playing the Viennese waltz. Judge Beauregarde comes to greet you. Good evening, Miss Sally Belle. My goodness, if you ain't a picture.
Sally Belle MacAbee : Good evening, Judge Beauregarde. Isn't it a heavenly night. Did you ever see such a moon? To smell the fragrance of the jasmine and magnolias.
Belle MacAbee : May I present my nephew, Mr Archibald Beauregarde.
Sally Belle MacAbee : Mr Archibald Beauregarde, I've heard so much about you. Been just longing to meet you.
Belle MacAbee : Now take his arm, now lower your head a little more, now smile at him through your lashes. Oh, very nice. Now, that'll give Mr Archibald Beauregarde something to think about.
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Flint McCullough : President Polk? Well, how long you folks been here?
Belle MacAbee : Well, Mr MacAbee brought me here twenty years ago and I haven't been out of this valley since. And the girls haven't been out at all.
Flint McCullough : Well, I'm afraid President Polk is long gone. Since him there's been Zachary Taylor, Franklin Pierce, Millard Philmore, James Buchanan, Abraham Lincoln of course, Andrew Jackson. There's been the Civil War.
Belle MacAbee : Civil War?
Flint McCullough : Eleven states seceded from the Union.
Belle MacAbee : How wicked.
Jess MacAbee : I've always said those Yankees were unstable.
Sally Belle MacAbee : What Yankee states left the Union, Mr McCullough?
Flint McCullough : The Yankee states of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, Arkansas, Georgia, Alabama, Florida and Louisiana.
Lilly Belle MacAbee : The whole South?
Sally Belle MacAbee : Out of the Union?
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Anna Belle MacAbee : We heard a lot of firing.
Jess MacAbee : Well, I did manage to wing one or two.
Sally Belle MacAbee : Did Mr McCullough get any?
Jess MacAbee : Oh. yeah. He winded one or two, too.
Lilly Belle MacAbee : You are the two bravest men in the whole world.
Jess MacAbee : Ooh, it was nothing. Was it, Flint?
Flint McCullough : Nothing, absolutely nothing at all.
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Anna Belle MacAbee : [Junior is helping her sister dress and is working on the back fastenings] I thought people got thin when they were in love.
Sally Belle MacAbee : If you don't hush your mouth, I'm gonna wallop you right across your Southern bottom.
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Lilly Belle MacAbee : Do you want him to choose you, Sally Belle?
Sally Belle MacAbee : I don't know. I'm scared that he will. And scared that he won't.
Lilly Belle MacAbee : I guess I feel the same way.