“Now, I'll begin at the beginnin'. A fine soft day in the spring it...” – Father Peter Lonergan, The Quiet Man ... Movie Quotes Database

Now, I'll begin at the beginnin'. A fine soft day in the spring it was when the train pulled into Castletown three hours late as usual, and himself got off. He didn't have the look of an American tourist at all about him. Not a camera on him. And what was worse, not even a fishing rod.

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