Sharpe (TV Series)

Sharpe's Gold (1995)

Rosaleen Linehan: Bess Nugent

Quotes 

• Bess Nugent : For God's sake there's enough black sheep in our family to fill a field! Whoring and swindling, but Will isn't one of them. And as for your wife Kitty and her tribe...

  Lord Wellington : Bess what is this for?

  Bess Nugent : Let me go too, and find him.

  Lord Wellington : No you will not. You will be removed from here, in the opposite direction, disarmed and obedient.

• Major Mungo Munro : [about El Casco's guerrillas]  The story goes, there was a great shipwreck hereabouts, long long ago. A galleon, bearing treasure from Mexico to the King of Spain. Not only gold, but idols for him to see, even people from that terrible land.

  Richard Sharpe : Treasure?

  Major Mungo Munro : Ah that catches your ear, laddie? Well if it's still there, no one's found it!

  Bess Nugent : William heard of it too.

  Ellie Nugent : You said a 'terrible land'?

  Major Mungo Munro : The Aztecs of Mexico were a high civilization, and entirely evil!

  Ellie Nugent : How could that be?

  Lt. Ayres : Their religion was based on human sacrifice. They cut the living hearts out of their prisoners...

  Major Mungo Munro : That'll do for now, man.

  Lt. Ayres : ...thousands at a time. Or they skinned them.

  Major Mungo Munro : I said that'll do!

  Lt. Ayres : They even had a god of flaying...the flayed god...

  Richard Sharpe : Stop gloating, Ayres!

  Lt. Ayres : I came across it in my studies. Rather amusing.

  Ellie Nugent : Major Munroe, you didn't mean there could be any of that here?

  Major Mungo Munro : No. Well, maybe a taint turned into foolish nonsense, these folk are peasants.

  Ellie Nugent : And that's all?