Nicholas Nickleby (2002)

Jamie Bell: Smike

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• [At the assembly to see Smike flogged for running away] 

  Mr. Squeers : Is every boy here? Get back! You too Nickleby!

  [to Smike] 

  Mr. Squeers : And you. Have you anything to say?

  Smike : [Crying]  Please, sir, spare me.

  Mr. Squeers : I'll spare you. I'll flog you to within an inch of your life, and I'll spare you then.

  [Squeers strikes him once, Smike cries out in pain] 

  Nicholas : Stop! This must not go on. I will not allow it.

  Mr. Squeers : You dare to challenge my authority! Stay back!

  Nicholas : Touch him at your peril! I will not stand by and see it done.

  Mr. Squeers : You will do as you're told!

  Nicholas : If you raise the devil within me, the consequences shall fall on your own head! Once I begin, God help you!

  [Nicholas grabs the stick and starts hitting Squeers with it] 

  Mr. Squeers : Stop! No, please, wait!

  Nicholas : I do not know why, but I am going to show you what you have never shown any boy in this room... Pity.

  [Nicholas cuts down Smike and helps him out] 

• Smike : What faces will smile on me when I die? Who will comfort me that long night? They cannot come from home. They would frighten me if they did, for I shouldn't know them. No. There is no hope.

• Smike : Though I would have died to make her happy it broke my heart to see. I know he loves her dearly.

  Nicholas : Kate.

  Smike : I love her.

• Smike : Now. Now I can say it. I am happy.

• Smike : Tomorrow where will you go?

  Nicholas : Perhaps to Liverpool. I could find work on a ship. Do not be anxious. Before I do anything I will get you to your home. Where is it?

  Smike : You are my home.

  Nicholas : [affectionately]  Smike.

  Smike : Please may I go with you to sea? I will be your faithful, hardworking servant, I will. Promise I will. I want only to be near you.

  Nicholas : Smike, the wall that separates us shall never be set by me. And I promise you, from this night forward, the world shall deal by you as it does by me.

• Nicholas : [on the Squeers treating Smike badly because he is friends with Nicholas]  You will do better when I am gone.

  Smike : [alarmed]  Gone? When are you going?

  Nicholas : I would go tomorrow if I could.

  Smike : Tell me, is the world as bad as this place?

  Nicholas : [smiles]  Oh no.

  Smike : Should I ever meet you there?

  Nicholas : Well, yes I'm sure at...

  Smike : No, no tell me. Tell me that I should be sure to find you.

  Nicholas : [affirmatively]  You would and I would help you and aid you. I would not bring fresh sorrow on you as they have done here.

• Nicholas : We have fallen on strange times.

  Smike : Yes - but wondrous strange.

• Nicholas : Mother, this is Smike.

  Mrs. Nickleby : How do you do, Mr. Pike?

  Nicholas : No, Mother, "Smike," with an "S."

  Smike : How do you do?

  Mrs. Nickleby : Very well, thank you, Mr. Spike.

• Smike : It is a beautiful tree. It is like a home.