Persuasion (1995 TV Movie)

Richard McCabe: Captain Benwick

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• Captain Benwick : [Anne and Benwick are discussing poetry and he asks her which she prefers of two poems by Sir Walter Scott. Anne answers by quoting a line from the second poem. They then alternately recite the next few lines]  Tell me, do you prefer "Marmion" or "The Lady of the Lake?"

  Anne : "Like the dew on the mountain / Like the foam on the river /"

  Captain Benwick : "Like the bubble on the fountain / Thou art gone /"

  Anne : "and forever!"

• James Benwick : You cannot know the depth of my despair. Phoebe would have married me before I went to sea, but I told her - I told her we should wait for money. Money!

  Anne Elliot : Come, now, Captain Benwick. Come, now. You will rally again. You *must*.

  James Benwick : You have no conception of what I have lost.

  Anne Elliot : Yes, I have.

• James Benwick : What's the news, Sir Walter?

  Sir Walter Elliot : A concert in the Assembly Room. To be given in Italian.

  James Benwick : [skeptical]  Hmm.

  Sir Walter Elliot : A display of fireworks. But here is news indeed. Most vital news!

  Elizabeth Elliot : Father?

  Sir Walter Elliot : The Dowager Lady Dalrymple and the Honorable Miss Carteret are arrived in Laura place.

  Elizabeth Elliot : Our cousins.

  Sir Walter Elliot : Will they receive us?

  Elizabeth Elliot : They would not snub us, surely?

  Sir Walter Elliot : Please, God, let them not snub us!