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Based on the 1910 novel by Henry Handel Richardson, thought to be an account of her own schooldays at the Presbyterian L | dG1fb2lVV1B4YVRVdGc
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00:00I'm going to be famous. Even famous people have to be educated.
00:23She's the greatest little oddity we've ever had here.
00:25I don't know, Mr.
00:26Even her clothes are fit for an Easter fair.
00:30Oh, come, you spirits, that tend of mortal thought. Unsex me here.
00:41Whosoever loveth not, knoweth not God. For God is.
00:47Love.
00:49Besides, I don't believe a minister would stoop to such a sordid intrigue with a child of 15.
00:53Laura, what's been happening at that school?
00:55What do you mean?
00:56I'm going to tell them everything about you. About this awful dress and about your horrid mother working in a horrid post office and doing dressmaking.
01:02And I'll tell them your mother's a drunk.
01:05What?
01:05Stop!
01:06Don't you dare tell anyone. Not anyone.
01:09Self-confessed you stand here a desembler and a thief.
01:14I don't think I understand it.
01:16Don't worry. Just say it to Mrs. Gurley as if you do.
01:18Oh! Oh, I'm terribly sorry, Mrs. Strachey, but it does hurt awfully.
01:24I could play it.
01:25You know it, Miss, um...
01:26No, but I could probably play it from sight.
01:28But she doesn't even take music.
01:29No, but I could play it from sight.
01:59Trumsey, girl. Trumsey, out of my sight.
02:13God, another trashy novel.
02:15I shall miss you.
02:18Very much.
02:19Thank you very much.
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