Sharpe (TV Series)
Sharpe's Challenge (2006)
Lucy Brown: Celia Burroughs
Quotes
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William Dodd : [Cecilia is bathing, and Dodd has snuck in] I trust your new quarters are more to your liking!
Celia Burroughs : [surprised, Cecilia hides her body] General Dodd!
[Recovers herself]
Celia Burroughs : I hardly think it proper for you to be alone in a woman's quarters!
William Dodd : Fortunately, madam, there lies a region in which I am well traveled.
Celia Burroughs : What is it you want?
William Dodd : Merely to ask after your comfort.
Celia Burroughs : To the best of my knowledge, sir, you were once an officer in the British army.
William Dodd : It was the East India Company in which I serve. But let's not split hairs over such trifling matters. Your point?
Celia Burroughs : My point, sir, is that if any vestige of gentlemanly conduct you absorbed while in British company remains, I would urge you to act upon it.
William Dodd : [grins] Alas, madam, these past years I find I'm moved by impulses far more... corporeal.
Celia Burroughs : If I understood you were right the other evening, general, you made a gift of me to the rajah.
William Dodd : What of it?
Celia Burroughs : Nothing. I am merely imagining his disappointment to find that his gift had already been unwrapped!
William Dodd : [frowns in anger for a moment] Any man would wish you health under his Highness. For he'll take more care in its opening than I will!
[walks out, leaving Celia speechless]
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Celia Burroughs : [Trying to persuade Sharpe to stay] How might *General* Sharpe sound?
Richard Sharpe : No disrespect to your father ma'am, but I think this place has seen enough generals for a while!
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Lalima : We did not ask you British into our country. And still you came, not as guest, nor in friendship. You came to plunder, nothing more.
Celia Burroughs : I came here to be with my father...
Lalima : We are not savages madam, whatever you might think of us. All we want is to be left to run our own affairs!
