Rachel and the Stranger (1948)

Gary Gray: Davey

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Quotes 

• Davey : I wonder what she'll be like.

  Big Davey : Who?

  Davey : Your new wife. Could be most anybody, I reckon. Big and fat like Mrs. Rictor. Or a scrawny old bag of bones like some.

  Big Davey : Yeah.

  Davey : I sure hope she don't whistle when she breathes or she's fat like Mrs. Rictor.

  Big Davey : Davey, you chatter like a chipmunk.

  Davey : We gotta take whoever we can get to take ya, Pa.

  [Big Davey looks bewildered] 

• Davey : Git yourself a wife, Pa?

  Big Davey : Yeah, I, I reckon so. Kinda thin, but... not bad lookin'.

• Rachel : Oh, Davey, one of the reasons your pa wanted me here was so I could... sorta mother you.

  Davey : The devil it was. You're a bond slave, that's all. Pa bought ya, I seen him through the window when he paid out your price. You was eighteen dollars and four owin'!

• Davey : [after Rachel tells Davey to go sleep by his pa]  Pa...

  Big Davey : Get, you ungrateful whelp.

  Davey : She ain't so bad, Pa.

  Big Davey : Just like a hound dog, take up with the first one to feed you.

  Davey : She told me to come back. She allowed you'd be lonely.

  Big Davey : Well, what's she doin' to make a man less lonely? I reckon we'll get somebody else to do our chores.

  [Rachel hears this, and rolls her eyes] 

• Rachel : [after Big Davey and Jim had been fighting]  Men. Two full-grown men fightin' like a couple of wild Indians. Why?

  [No one answers] 

  Rachel : All right, Davey, why was they fightin'?

  Big Davey : You shut, Dave.

  Rachel : You speak, Dave.

  Davey : Well, Jim wanted to buy you with a profit from Pa, and Pa told him to...

  Big Davey : You shut Dave!

  Rachel : He'll speak if he wants and all he wants. And so will I.

  Jim : Maybe that's best. Now you tell Big Davey you're goin' along with me.

  Big Davey : [Big Davey gets his ire up]  Why, you...

  Rachel : Now hold on, hold on!

  [restrains Big Davey] 

  Rachel : [to Jim]  Me goin' along with you?

  Jim : Now, this may, may come as a surprise to you Rachel, it is to me, but I...

  Rachel : So's I can be bought and sold as you two please? Now, you wanna buy me so's you can have a wife and a slave at the same time just like he has. And then when you want to change you can sell me to somebody else like he's doin'.

  Big Davey : Now Rachel, I...

  Rachel : You shut! I'm beginning to believe that's just the way you think about a wife. Both of you. Someone to be bought or sold. Someone to cook for you and do your chores and flatter your manhood every now and then.

  [Disgustedly] 

  Rachel : Manhood. Just look at you. I'm going back to the stockade.