A moment later, Larry LaSalle stood on the platform, resplendent in the green uniform… He smiled, the old movie-star smile.”
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Card 7
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“Fred Astaire still in his walk but something different about him. His slenderness was knife-like now, lethal.”“Fred Astaire still in his walk but something different about him. His slenderness was knife-like now, lethal.”
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Card 8
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“I’m glad to be home, even if it’s only for a little while. And most of all I want to be with the Wreck Centre gang.’
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Card 9
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‘time to go home, Francis….you look tired….its been a long day’
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Card 10
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“He is pale, eyes sunk into the sockets like in the newsreel at the Plymouth, and he seems fragile now, as if caught in an old photograph that has faded and yellowed with age.”
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Card 11
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“Oh, Francis. You’re too hard on yourself. You didn’t do anything you should feel guilty about, that should make you want to die. You couldn’t have stopped me, anyway, Francis. You were just a child.’
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Card 12
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The sweet young things, Francis. Even their heat is sweet…’ Sweet young things’
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Card 13
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“Does that one sin of mine wipe away all the good things?’
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Card 14
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‘ know why I’m sitting in this chair, Francis?...My legs are gone’
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Card 15
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the tension between the two characters is reduced as LaSalle ‘removes the magazine from his pistol’,
