Robert Mitchum aufgeführt in der Rolle von...
Charles Shaughnessy
- Charles Shaughnessy: It's not a hangin' matter to be young... but it maybe should be a hangin' matter for a - man of middle age - to - try and steal the youth from a young girl. Especially, a man like me and a - girl like you. You were meant for the wide world, Rose. Not this place, not this. Me - I was born for it. It wouldn't do, Rose. I just know it wouldn't.
- Rosy Ryan: So, you - you don't want me, then?
- Charles Shaughnessy: [Leans to kiss Rose] Don't want you? Oh...
- [They embrace]
- Charles Shaughnessy: [Rose has professed her love to Charles] Rose, you're mistaking a penny mirror for the sun - do you not see that?
- Rosy Ryan: I see you always digging a low pit for yourself - when you should be standing on a heap of pride.
- Charles Shaughnessy: You coming in here and saying what you did just now is the only cause I've ever had for pride.
- Thomas Ryan: [talking about the Easter Rebellion] If the Germans had an ounce of sense, they'd send us guns to use against the British!
- Charles Shaughnessy: That's treason you're talking.
- Thomas Ryan: And friends that are listening surely to God!
- Rosy Ryan: [after her affair with Doryan has become public] You're very kind to me today.
- Charles Shaughnessy: Am I?
- Rosy Ryan: Yes. Why?
- Charles Shaughnessy: Am I not usually kind to you?
- Rosy Ryan: You enjoyed yourself in Dublin, then?
- Charles Shaughnessy: Well, I did and I didn't. A conference of village school teachers, you know, is not exactly a...
- Rosy Ryan: Bacchanalia?
- Charles Shaughnessy: Bacchanalia, precisely.
- Charles Shaughnessy: Why don't you see, Rose, I only taught you about Byron and Beethoven and Captain Blood. I'm not one of them fellows, me self.
- Rosy Ryan: I'm not daft, you know.
- Charles Shaughnessy: But, you're terribly young.
- Charles Shaughnessy: Rose, I have something to say to you. Come in. Sit down, will you? Rose, I thought I could stand by and let you two burn it out, like I said. But I find I can't. I'm not sure I ought to have tried, but anyway, I can't. So I'm going to leave you.
- Charles Shaughnessy: What about you? You and him?
- Rosy Ryan: Nothing.
- Charles Shaughnessy: What do you mean, nothing?
- Rosy Ryan: It's over.
- Charles Shaughnessy: Was that because I went and stayed away?
- Rosy Ryan: No. It's over.
- Charles Shaughnessy: Have you told him?
- Rosy Ryan: No.
- Charles Shaughnessy: He doesn't know, then?
- Rosy Ryan: Yes, he knows.
- Charles Shaughnessy: How?
- Rosy Ryan: He must.
- Charles Shaughnessy: You're as close as that, are you?
- Rosy Ryan: We were, yes.
- Charles Shaughnessy: Rose, you must tell me the truth. Do you think you're ever gonna forget him? Of course not. He'd be like a ghost about the place. Rose, am I right?
- Rosy Ryan: Yes, you're right. It's busted, Charles. I busted it.
- Rosy Ryan: They really thought... I was the one who betrayed that man.
- Charles Shaughnessy: Rose... I don't for one moment suppose that anyone betrayed him. Why should they? They just... They just wanted it so, that's all. And they wanted it to be you, too. For other reasons. Truth was told, they envy you. They always have. They've always had a rare, old contempt for me, too. I tell you, I'm not for letting any of that lot know we've busted up. We'll just keep up a front until I'm well and out of it.
- Charles Shaughnessy: Do you know that the British government has got a law now... forbidding the playing of German music?
- Rosy Ryan: No.
- Charles Shaughnessy: Can you imagine such foolishness?
- Rosy Ryan: British.
- Charles Shaughnessy: Well, all governments is foolish, more or less. An Irish government would be the same.
- Charles Shaughnessy: Rose?
- Rosy Ryan: Yes?
- Charles Shaughnessy: You'd never be unfaithful to me, would you?
- Rosy Ryan: Charles.
- Charles Shaughnessy: I'm sorry, I shouldn't have asked that. No, that's a rotten question for a man to ask his wife.
- Rosy Ryan: Charles, do you know or not?
- Charles Shaughnessy: I know.
- Rosy Ryan: Since when?
- Charles Shaughnessy: The beginning. Don't lower your head, Rose.
- Rosy Ryan: Why didn't you speak?
- Charles Shaughnessy: I should have, shouldn't I?
- Rosy Ryan: I don't know.
- Charles Shaughnessy: It was easier not to, I suppose. I didn't want to know, you know. And then I thought, if I let you burn it out, the pair of you... you'd perhaps come back to me.
- Charles Shaughnessy: Now, there was a man with a mind, if you like.
- Rosy Ryan: Why? What did he say?
- Charles Shaughnessy: I couldn't tell you, Rose. Whatever it was, it was wasted on us. Teachers are a poor lot, surely.
- Rosy Ryan: If teachers were the poor lot, like you're always making out... how would the pupils be learning such riches?