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Why should there be any hard feelings?

Benissimo!

All right. Only I didn’t want you to think.

[A long pause.]

[Very steadily]: You ain’t got much of a swelled head, have you, Mr. Joe?

[ ''face falls. The tension is snapped by a gesture from'' .]

Tear him up, Joe! Tear him up!

[ obeys.]

Now we don’t ever have to think of that again.

Madonna! Da’s verra good.

You see, that’s the only way to do. There ain’t no use of keeping things around to remind you of what