Pat Leary. - Who's defending her? - Nobody in town would touch the case. The Judge will probably appoint someone as a formality. - Where are you going? - To court. What for? You can't take the case of that woman. Why not? You'd come back and take that creature's part... against every respectable woman in Osage? - Against me? - I can't help it. Anyone, no matter who, has a legal right to fight for existence. If you disgrace me, make a laughingstock of me... What's she to you? - Proceed. - And that, Your Honor... the integrity of our fair city... is threatened... sullied by this shameless evil... flaunting in our faces. This woman, a viper lurking in our midst... a sinister menace to public decency. Gentlemen... if I were in the jury box... if I were judge on the bench... yea, even though I sat... in the governor's chair... I could say no less... and duty compels that the presence among us... of this disgraceful criminal, this scavenger... this unspeakable human... strikes at the very foundation of the Southwest. A disgrace... to the fair name of our womanhood. Your Honor, the prosecution rests. Your Honor... gentlemen of the jury... I am the first to bow to achievement. May I then, before I begin my poor plea... respectfully call your attention to that which I believe... has never been duplicated before in the history of Oklahoma. Turn your eye to that figure that has so deservedly held your attention. This gifted person, Mr. Patrick Leary... is the only man in the glorious and brilliant Southwest... nay, in this magnificent nation... of whom it may actually be said that he is able to strut sitting down. - I object! - Quiet. - I object! - Objection overruled. - I note the exception. - Proceed. Gentlemen of the jury... you have heard the prosecution's cruel attack on this defenseless woman. Bred in the gentle surroundings of a pure home... such as you would choose for your own daughters... this innocent girl, bereft by death of her loved ones... was left alone in the world. In that hour of dark terror came a wolf in sheep's clothing, gentlemen. A wretch, posing as a friend... false promises, lies, deceit so palpable... that it would have fooled no one but a young girl... such as you, yourself, Mrs. Wyatt, in your maidenly days. Surely, you must remember. Yes. - Helpless, crushed by the... - I object! - Objection's overruled. - I note an exception! I note that my worthy opponent is exceptionally able at noting exceptions. Quiet. Proceed. Gentlemen... my only object in being here is to try and get at the truth. For that purpose, Your Honor, I call as witness the defendant... Miss Dixie Lee. Miss Lee, you will take the stand. Do you solemnly swear to tell the truth, the whole truth... and nothing but the truth, so help you God? I do. You are under oath to tell only the truth. You'll therefore answer my questions to the best of your ability... and in your own words. At the death of your father and your dear mother... - just how old were you? - I was 15. Left in comfortable circumstances? My father had been ill as long as I could remember... and my mother's health had broken nursing him. They left me without anything. Now, it isn't my purpose to humiliate you, Miss Lee, in front of these people... but I must ask you to tell them just what followed. Tell the jury. Well, I got work in the public library. I met a man who said he loved me. We were married secretly. And then I found out that he already had a wife and that our marriage was a fake. - Did you continue on with this man? - I never saw him again... and after my baby died... I left the city. Did you make an effort to secure employment... so you could earn your own living? Work of any kind? Yes, I did. Tell the court just what happened. Well, I managed to get a position as schoolteacher and then... someone found out about me, and l... And ------------------------------ Читайте также: - текст Кто подставил Кролика Роджера на английском - текст Схватка на английском - текст Отель "У погибшего альпиниста" на английском - текст Клятва на английском - текст Весна на Заречной улице на английском |