That's the trick. To be acceptable to the powers that be.

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3 seconds sound clip from the The Alamo (1960) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 00:39:26.193 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

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- Santa Anna's administrators rule Potosi.

- You... you expect me to marry you, with my father and four brothers newly buried in Potosi... and my husband?

- I expect it because it is the logical course.

- To marry you? Logical?

- I am acceptable to Santa Anna. And if he should be defeated, I will manage to become acceptable to his successors.

- That's the trick. To be acceptable to the powers that be.

- And let's not pretend you're a broken-hearted widow. You barely knew the man. The marriage was as much arranged as this one would be. Your family picked him up.

- That's the way of my people.

- You'll say yes. It's your only possible path. Like all women, you'll postpone the decision. But you will say yes.

- Forgive me, ma'am, but I was having a smoke out on that gallery and I couldn't help but overhear... I wasn't eavesdropping.

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