- The Gentleman: I can teach you to raise up mountains... crush your enemies beneath them.
- Mr Norrell: Yes, and you can shackle English magic to your whims. You can steal English men and women from their homes and you can trap them in a world of your degenerate race...! But if forbid it, sir! I forbid it!
- [blows candle out ending the evocation of the Gentleman]
- [first lines]
- French soldier: [French, subtitled]
- [ringing alarm bell]
- French soldier: They're coming! Get ready!
- Frnch admiral: [French] Why were they not sighted sooner? It's a naval blockade!