I am no saint, but I have a duty towards you. Let me do it.
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Angharad:
I couldn't spend another night without knowing. What has happened? Is anything wrong? Mr. Gruffydd:
Wrong? Angharad:
You know what I mean. Why have you changed towards me? Why am I a stranger now? Have I done anything? Mr. Gruffydd:
No... the blame is mine. Your mother spoke to me after Chapel. She is happy to think you will be having plenty all your days. Angharad:
[scornfully]
Iestyn Evans? Mr. Gruffydd:
You could do no better. Angharad:
I don't want him. I want you. Mr. Gruffydd:
Angharad... I have spent nights too, trying to think this out. When I took up this work, I knew what it meant - it meant sacrifice and devotion and making it my whole life to the exclusion of everything else. That I was perfectly willing to do. But to share it with another... Do you think I will have you going threadbare all your life? Depending on the charity of others for your good meals? Our children growing up in cast-off clothing - and ourselves thanking God for parenthood in a house full of bits? No. I can bear with such a life for the sake of my work. But I think I would start to kill if I saw the white come to your hair twenty years before its time. Angharad:
[softly]
Why? Why would you start to kill? Are you a man or a saint? Mr. Gruffydd:
I am no saint, but I have a duty towards you. Let me do it. [Angharad kisses him, and leaves]
I couldn't spend another night without knowing. What has happened? Is anything wrong? Mr. Gruffydd:
Wrong? Angharad:
You know what I mean. Why have you changed towards me? Why am I a stranger now? Have I done anything? Mr. Gruffydd:
No... the blame is mine. Your mother spoke to me after Chapel. She is happy to think you will be having plenty all your days. Angharad:
[scornfully]
Iestyn Evans? Mr. Gruffydd:
You could do no better. Angharad:
I don't want him. I want you. Mr. Gruffydd:
Angharad... I have spent nights too, trying to think this out. When I took up this work, I knew what it meant - it meant sacrifice and devotion and making it my whole life to the exclusion of everything else. That I was perfectly willing to do. But to share it with another... Do you think I will have you going threadbare all your life? Depending on the charity of others for your good meals? Our children growing up in cast-off clothing - and ourselves thanking God for parenthood in a house full of bits? No. I can bear with such a life for the sake of my work. But I think I would start to kill if I saw the white come to your hair twenty years before its time. Angharad:
[softly]
Why? Why would you start to kill? Are you a man or a saint? Mr. Gruffydd:
I am no saint, but I have a duty towards you. Let me do it. [Angharad kisses him, and leaves]
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I have spent nights too trying to think this out
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When I took up this work I knew what it meant
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It meant sacrifice and devotion
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It meant making it my whole life to the to the exclusion of everything else
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That I was perfectly willing to do
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But to share it with another
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Do you think I will have you going threadbare
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depending on the charity of others for your good meals
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Our children growing up in cast off clothing
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and ourselves thanking God for parenthood in a house full of bits
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No I can bear with such a life for the sake of my work
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but I think I'd start to kill if
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if I saw the white come to your hair 20 years before its time
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Why
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Why would you start to kill
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Are you a man or a saint
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Movie Summary
At the turn of the century in a Welsh mining village, the Morgans, he stern, she gentle, raise coal-mining sons and hope their youngest will find a better life.
Actors
Angharad
Mr. Gruffydd
