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Catharine Holly is the niece of Mrs. Venable and the last person to
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START: SISTER: What did you take out of that box on the table?
CATHARINE: Just a cigarette, Sister.
SISTER: Put it back in the box.
CATHARINE: Too late, it鈥檚 already lighted.
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END: CATHARINE: He liked me and so I loved him 鈥� [She cries a little again.] If he鈥檇 kept hold of my hand I could have saved him! 鈥� Sebastian suddenly said to me last summer: 鈥楲et鈥檚 fly north, little bird 鈥� I want to walk under those radiant, cold northern lights 鈥� I鈥檝e never seen the aurora borealis!鈥� 鈥� Somebody said once or wrote, once: 鈥榃e鈥檙e all of us children in a vast kindergarten trying to spell God鈥檚 name with the wrong alphabet blocks!鈥�
Tennessee Williams. Suddenly Last Summer. Penguin Modern Classics (electronic version), 2009. pp. 28-32.
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