Sharpe (TV Series)
Sharpe's Waterloo (1997)
Neil Dickson: Uxbridge
Quotes
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Richard Sharpe : [has stumbled across Jane and Rossendale] You, madam! You!
Jane Sharpe : Don't hurt me, please!
Richard Sharpe : And you!
[grabs Rossendale]
Richard Sharpe : You dare to come! You dare to join! You dare to be in the same bottle-beggary army as me!
Richard Sharpe : [chases Rossendale until Rossendale trips and falls] Get up!
[kicks Rossendale in the ribs]
Richard Sharpe : Get up and fight!
[turns to the crowd]
Richard Sharpe : Somebody give him a sword!
[turns back to Rossendale]
Richard Sharpe : You have a friend?
Rossendale : [recognizing the duel challenge] No, no, no, no, please!
Richard Sharpe : Then give me the money, you can keep the whore for an arse-wipe, you yellow-livered...
[feels the shame of being cuckolded]
Richard Sharpe : No... no, by God, I'll kill you anyway!
[draws his sword and points it at Rossendale, who wets himself in front of the assembled guests]
Uxbridge : [intervenes] Enough!
[looks down at Rossendale in disgust]
Uxbridge : Get up.
Richard Sharpe : [does not move his sword] By God I'll fillet you also!
Uxbridge : You will not!
Harry Price : [mutters in Sharpe's ear] Harry Paget, Richard... Earl Uxbridge as is, Lord Wellington's second-in-command as is... don't do it.
Richard Sharpe : [sighs in defeat] You tell him Harry.
Rossendale : [looking up, embarrassed] I fell... just fell.
Richard Sharpe : Tell him he can have the whore
[glares over at Jane, who stares back at him in loathing]
Richard Sharpe : but I want my money.
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[as Wellington sits down to dinner, the night before the battle]
Uxbridge : What do you do tomorrow?
Wellington : What do you eat, Uxbridge?
Uxbridge : [impatiently] Much the same.
Wellington : Does the army want for anything?
Uxbridge : Damn it, what do you do tomorrow? What plans have you?
Wellington : Plans?
Uxbridge : I am second in command! I ought to know!
Wellington : As soon as Napoleon Bonaparte tells me what *he's* going to do, I shall know what *I'm* going to do, and I shall tell you. But as Boney has not yet confided in me, I cannot confide in you. So, to your beef, Uxbridge.
[Uxbridge exits in a huff]
Wellington : [under his breath] Adulterous rogue.
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[the Prince of Orange rides to Wellington's side]
Prince William of Orange : Good day to you. We're fighting Boney, you know. Indeed we are. This day, at the cross roads of Quartre Bras... He's been seen.
Wellington : [skeptically] Has he been?
Prince William of Orange : We're holding the woods, I do believe... yes.
Uxbridge : [looks around] Where are your men?
Prince William of Orange : Fighting... fighting.
[the Dutch troops stream past, clearly running away]
Uxbridge : I stand corrected, highness. I know very little about uniforms, other than me own, but I could have sworn these was yours as is running. Ain't they?
Prince William of Orange : [draws his sword] Some of them, Lord Uxbridge, some of them.
[spurs after them]
Prince William of Orange : Come back here, you cowards!
Wellington : I never mind men running as long as they come back.
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Wellington : [to the retreating Dutch troops] My lads, you look blown from your run. Come, do take breath a moment. Then we will go back and try if we can do better. Take heart, soon have some guns up. Uxbridge!
Uxbridge : Wellington?
Wellington : When?
Uxbridge : Oh, they do come, I assure you. What of the Prussians. Any word at all?
Wellington : I told the Prussians we'll support them but only if not attacked here. They'll have to fight without us today.
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Wellington : If your corps is coming up, as you assure me, how close do you think they are? I want them to clear that road, I want it handsomely arranged with guns.
Uxbridge : Very close.
Wellington : How close?
Uxbridge : Close. Coming up.
[He turns around to look for them]
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[as the French artillery commence fire, beginning the Battle of Waterloo]
Uxbridge : [lifting a glass of sherry] Gentlemen, I give you today's fox.