 I began to see an attractive ensemble — sailors , whalers , girls who worked in the mills up the river , clambakes on near @-@ by islands , an amusement park on the seaboard , things people could do in crowds , people who were strong and alive and lusty , people who had always been depicted on the stage as thin @-@ lipped puritans — a libel I was anxious to refute ... as for the two leading characters , Julie with her courage and inner strength and outward simplicity seemed more indigenous to Maine than to Budapest . Liliom is , of course , an international character , indigenous to nowhere . 
