Wagon Train (TV Series)

The Prairie Story (1961)

Jan Clayton: Charity Kirby

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Quotes 

• Garth Kirby : His mother doesn't care.

  Charity Kirby : Well, your Mama does.

• Charity Kirby : The surf is ladies from the gowns of all the women who drowned at sea. Old lace yellowed with tears and brined with memories. There's a ball tonight on the smooth shadowed floor of the ocean and all the best people will be there. Dancing a minuet fathoms below.

  Patience Kirby : A sea child dies on land.

  Charity Kirby : What did you say?

  Patience Kirby : A sea child dies on land.

  Charity Kirby : Who told you that?

  Patience Kirby : I don't know. Someone in Gloucester.

• Charity Kirby : Land like any other land? Grass that grows higher than a man's head, animals as big as houses, heat, dust, dirt, bugs, Indians. This is a Devil's land.

  Matt Kirby : Charity.

  Charity Kirby : We've got to get back to Gloucester. I've got to take my children back. Oh, if only I were there this minute, I can feel the sea crashing about me. Just for one moment.

  Matt Kirby : Look ahead, Charity, don't think of the past, think of the future.