The Scarlet Pimpernel (TV Series)

The Flower Woman (1955)

Lucie Mannheim: Countess la Valliere

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Quotes 

• Sir Percy Blakeney : How many were marked to die?

  Countess La Valliere : I don't know.

  Sir Percy Blakeney : We have saved only thirty.

  Countess La Valliere : Better than none.

  Sir Percy Blakeney : The evening sky is so beautiful.

  Countess La Valliere : History will remember this autumn.

  Sir Percy Blakeney : September.

  Countess La Valliere : September massacres.

  Sir Percy Blakeney : I shall never forget what we saw in those places where...

  Countess La Valliere : Where we came too late.

  Sir Percy Blakeney : It will haunt my dreams forever.

  Countess La Valliere : [They hear shouting and the Countess gets up to see what is happening outside. People are marching and chanting]  Liberty! What crimes are committed in thy name? Those who have died will soon be forgotten.

  Sir Percy Blakeney : You're very calm, Madame.

  Countess La Valliere : I have no time for tears, Sir Percy.

  Sir Percy Blakeney : I admire your calmness but I do not envy it. By the way, how's the mouse?

  [the Countess had put the mouse one of the children they rescued was playing with in her pocket for safekeeping. She quickly reaches in her pocket and looks stricken] 

  Sir Percy Blakeney : Dead?

  [She starts sobbing and he reaches to comfort her] 

  Sir Percy Blakeney : I think you meant, that if you allowed yourself to weep, you'd never stop.