Mystery!: Cadfael (TV Series)

The Devil's Novice (1996)

Julian Glover: Leoric Ashby

Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  Leoric Ashby : Master Clemence.

  Peter Clemence : Leoric.

  Leoric Ashby : [to Meriet]  Take his horse, boy. Welcome to Ashby Manor.

  Peter Clemence : [dismounts into a puddle]  The pleasure is all yours... cousin.

• Leoric Ashby : I have misprized you, Meriet. Almost from the day that you were born.

  Meriet Ashby : The fault was not all yours, sir. No man could have had a more irksome son.

  [Leoric laughs, then begins to cry and hugs Meriet close] 

  Leoric Ashby : Come home.

• Leoric Ashby : I had the horse led to the far north, by the route Clemence should have taken - devil's own job to catch. And the body I took in secret to the charcoal hearth. I built a stack and fired it. It was not well done, and against my conscience, but I did it. And I did it not for Meriet's sake, not for my own flesh and blood - that's the real shame - but to preserve that worthless thing called "honor."

  Brother Cadfael : No, honor is not worthless. But you sought to protect a family name. And a name, alone, has no worth at all.