OMAM A3:S2 Flashcards
There now. Now. I won’t never tell George. He’ll know. He always knows.
Get in the tules-quick.
I ain’t done nothing, George.
Get in the tules-damn you.
Where is he? You want-I-should-go away?
Lennie!
Where’s them guys goin?
Huntin’.
Whyn’t we go with ‘em? I like huntin’. Is it ‘cause I done a bad thing?
It don’t make no difference.
Is that why we can’t go huntin’ with them guys?
It don’t make no difference. . . . Sit down, Lennie. Right there.
George!
Yeah?
Ain’t you gonna give me hell?
Give ya hell?
Sure. . . . Like you always done before. Like-“If I didn’ have you I’d take my fifty bucks . . .”
If I was alone I-could live-so easy. I could get a job and not have no mess . . .
Go on, go on! “And when the end of the month come . . .”
“And when the end of the month come, I could take my fifty bucks and go to-a cat-house. . . .”
Go on, George, ain’t you gonna give me no more hell?
No!
I can go away. I’ll go right off in the hills and find a cave if you don’t want me.
No, I want you to stay here with me.
Then tell me like you done before.
Tell you what?
‘Bout the other guys and about us!
“Guys like us got no families. They get a little stake and then they blow it in. They ain’t got nobody in the world that gives a hoot in a hell about ‘em!”
“But not us.” Tell about us now.
“But not us.”
“Because . . .”
“Because I got you and . . .”
“And I got you. We got each other,” that’s what, that gives a hoot in hell about us.
Take off your hat, Lennie. The air feels fine!
Tell how it’s gonna be.
Look acrost the river, Lennie, and I’ll tell you like you can almost see it. “We gonna get a little place . . .”
Go on! How’s it gonna be? “We gonna get a little place . . .”
“We’ll have a cow. And we’ll have maybe a pig and chickens-and down the flat we’ll have a . . . little piece of alfalfa. . . .”
“For the rabbits!”
“For the rabbits!”
“And I get to tend the rabbits!”
“And you get to tend the rabbits!”
“And live on the fat o’ the land!”
Yes. Look over there, Lennie. Like you can really see it.
Where?
Right across the river there. Can’t you almost see it?
Where, George?
It’s over there. You keep lookin’, Lennie. Just keep lookin’.
