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Beatie has traveled to her family home in Norfolk from London. She is
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START: Mrs Bryant You hear about Jimmy Skelton? They say he’ve bin arrested for accosting some man in the village.
Beatie Jimmy Skelton what own the pub?
Mrs Bryant That’s him. I know all about Jimmy Skelton though. He were a
young boy when I were a young girl.
[... …]
END: Beatie See the way the other tune comes in? Hear it? Two simple tunes, one
after the other.
Mrs Bryant I aren’t saying it’s all squit.
Beatie And now listen, listen, it goes together, the two tunes together, they knit, they’re perfect. Don’t it make you want to dance?
Arnold Wesker. Roots. Act Two.
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