Sharpe (TV Series)
Sharpe's Waterloo (1997)
Owen Brenman: Witherspoon
Quotes
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Witherspoon : [taking out a notebook] What time?
Richard Sharpe : What?
Witherspoon : What time did it stop? The cannonade. I have it as ten minutes of midday, but the Duke likes it accurate, you see.
Richard Sharpe : What time is it now?
Witherspoon : Oh, uh...
[fumbles with his pocketwatch]
Witherspoon : Four minutes after midday, save a few...
Richard Sharpe : You'd best write down that they're coming, then.
Witherspoon : Coming?
Richard Sharpe : The French are advancing.
[Witherspoon looks into the woods, where a huge French column is advancing]
Witherspoon : Ah, so they are. Thank you, my dear fellow, I might have missed that.
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Rossendale : [confessing the truth of how his sword was broken] There were no bloody Lancers today. He broke my sword, Witherspoon... .Sharpe.
Witherspoon : I won't tell.
Rossendale : Thank you. Well, he got his note for the money. Much good will it do him; I have no money and Jane won't give me any more 'till I marry her. He gave her to me... said he'd sell her, some ghastly country custom that swine sell their wives, Withers. I love her to distraction, you know... more than honor... but to keep her I must kill him. He's a far better man than I, sir... so tomorrow I lose her and my honor.
Witherspoon : [looks at Rossendale for a moment, then:] It is to do with honor, isn't it, old chap? Not duels. There is one way you can win all, you know.
Rossendale : Is there? How?
Witherspoon : Fight like a blue hero tomorrow.